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From: d-yang@cs.columbia.edu (David Yang)
Newsgroups: comp.cog-eng
Subject: Re: What is the difference between a metaphor and a mental model?
Keywords: coding, metaphors
Message-ID: <397@cs.columbia.edu>
Date: 23 Oct 89 18:51:45 GMT
Reply-To: d-yang@cs.columbia.edu (David Yang)
Organization: Columbia University Department of Computer Science
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This may be a bit remote, but ...
I'm looking for papers/books on using metaphors to code pictures,
specifically, dot patterns.  E.g., both
.   .
 . .	       .   .
  .		 .
 . .	       .   .
.   .	     .       .

might be coded as an "X".  (Of course, to do the coding, one needs
to use some properties to decide that the pattern is actually an "X".)
The closest I've found is in E.L.J. Leeuwenberg's work
(Structural Information of Visual Patterns, 1968;
  "A Perceptual Coding Language for Visual and Auditory Patterns,"
    in Am. J. of Psychology, 1971, 84:3:307-349)
and gestalt psych works like Max Wertheimer
(in Ellis, A Source Book of Gestalt Psychology, 1938).
Any other suggestions would be appreciated.
(Please respond by e-mail, if possible.)

Advance thanks,
David Yang
yang@cs.columbia.edu