Laptop diary tool in REV - Glyphs

[Dan Shafer]

A number of years ago, a colleague and I "discovered" an engineer in
Southern California who had produced a two-volume book of what I think he
called "jet-age glyphs" for this kind of communication. His glyphs had the
virtue of being very easy to draw. But he was quite proprietary about his
work and unreceptive to our attempts to help him put those glyphs into a
computerized format which would enable their broad dissemination. When I
searched Google for them just now, nothing came up so I assume they died
with the author or are still in hibernation.

On 6/17/06, Mark Schonewille <m.schonewille at economy-x-talk.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Richmond,
>
> Kresten may correct me, but I believe the reason for having so many
> glyphs and being able to customize the use of glyphs is the cultural
> depencency of the symbols used. If one needs a round house, one may
> add it to Phenomenalog.
>
> Best,
>
> Mark
>
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> Op 17-jun-2006, om 9:39 heeft Richmond Mathewson het volgende
> geschreven:
>
> > WOW!
> >
> > Re the possibility of coloured glyphs (and glyph design in general)
> > I would refer those interested to :
> >
> > http://www.symbolworld.org/
> >
> > I would also recommend a close reading of the Third Voyage of
> > Lemuel Gulliver by Jonathan Swift where there is an explanation of
> > the effects of cognitive overload.
> >
> > I would also like to point out, as a person who has worked for some
> > 7 years in the Arabic world, that one of the dangers of using
> > glyphs (especially the non-abstract kind) is their cultural
> > dependency; or, to put it mopre directly:
> >
> > Who ever heard of a house that was not round?
> >
> > sincerely, Richmond Mathewson
> >
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