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From: thomas@urbana.mcd.mot.com (Tim Thomas)
Newsgroups: comp.human-factors
Subject: Re: Thing ICON
Keywords: wanted - graphical representation for generic objects
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Date: 24 Jun 91 20:20:18 GMT
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In article <1991Jun20.214406.13733@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> mig@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Meir I Green) writes:
>In article <2040@uqcspe.cs.uq.oz.au> warwick@cs.uq.oz.au writes:
>>George.Bray@syd.dit.CSIRO.AU (George Bray) writes:
>>>One of the representations I need is for a THING, a generic object. At best,
>>>all I can think of is a hand coming out of a small wooden box, from the
>>>Addams Family TV series.  This is hardly intuitive!
>>
>>Why not a totally blank icon?
>
>What do you mean?  How would you see it if it is invisible?  And how would you
>distinguish it from a blank icon?

Hmmmm.  You're right.  The icon should be:

                           +-------------+
                           |This Icon    |
                           |Intentionally|
                           |Left Blank   |
                           +-------------+

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