<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" /> </head> <body><div class="auto-created-dir-div" dir="auto" style="unicode-bidi: embed;"><div><br></div><p><span style="display: inline;">Gabriel Tellez wrote:</span><br></p><p><span style="display: inline;"><br></span></p><p><span style="display: inline;">> </span><span style="display: inline;">You made those symbols yourself, no?</span></p><p><span style="display: inline;"><br></span></p><p><span style="">I thought of having such symbols, thought of designs for the symbols, produced electronic images of the designs using the Affinity Designer software program, suggested the code numbers so that they can be used. They are Open Source in the hope that they will become used.</span></p><p><span style=""><br></span></p><p><span style="">This research is at an early stage. I needed to start somewhere. The symbols are now published and a method to apply them has been suggested. Is it art? Is it technology? Is it useful? Can the symbols convey meaning effectively, including through the language barrier? Will someone study them as applied art?</span></p><p><span style=""><br></span></p><p><span style="">Maybe one day the symbols and the meaning of each will become encoded in The Unicode Standard. That will need the symbols to become widely used by people other than the person who devised them.</span></p><p><span style=""><br></span></p><p><span style="">Maybe one day they will be displayed at MoMA, the Museum of Modern Art in New York.</span></p><p><span style=""><br></span></p><p>http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~ngo/emoji_installation_at_MoMA.htm</p><p><br></p><p>There are some other symbols that I have devised, listed from the following web page.</p><p><br></p><p><span style="display: inline;">http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~ngo/mariposa_novel.htm</span><br></p><p><br></p><p>They too each have a code that I have assigned to them, so they can be used now if people choose to use them.</p><p><br></p><p>Maybe other people will devise such abstract symbols and assign meanings too. It would be interesting to observe if symbols by various people can be used together, how various researchers interact.</p><p><br></p><p>William Overington</p><p><br></p><p>Saturday 23 March 2023</p><p><br></p></div> </body></html>