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From: nobody@mimsy.UUCP (Nobody)
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Subject: Re: What to know & universal icons
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Date: 15 Sep 89 11:57:06 GMT
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From: don@brillig.umd.edu (Don Hopkins)
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Of course the arrows weren't universal icons, but how about a small
circle or square as an icon for a point, or a long thin rectangle as
an icon for a line segment? When you draw a line or a point on a piece
of paper, or plot them on a screen, the marks you make have non-zero
area -- they don't really look like the things they're supposed to
represent.  They're icons. Non-mathematically inclined hunter-gatherer
types probably wouldn't recognize them, but intelligent space aliens
might.

Not good enough for you? Enclosed is the PostScript source for my
universal icon for nothing, void, emptyness, space, or a blank sheet
of paper. Print it out and enjoy it.

	-Don

%!
% nothing.ps: universal nothing icon
% Copyright (C) 1989 by Don Hopkins
% You may redistribute this freely, as long as you leave the copyright
% message intact.
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