“Semiotics of Visual Language”
SYSTEMS OF NOTATIONS
1) Chromatic Poles
The terms designating the chromatic poles, namely, the saturated shade toward which a coloreme or region converge may be abbreviated as follows:
| W | : | White |
| Bl | : | Black |
| Y | : | Yellow |
| R | : | Red |
| B | : | Blue |
| O | : | Orange |
| G | : | Green |
| V | : | Violet |
| Oc | : | Ochre |
| Br | : | Brown |
| Gr | : | Gray |
| P | : | Pink |
2) Tonalities
| Cl | : | Clear |
| D | : | Dark |
| Ch | : | Chiaroscuro |
3) Vectorialities
| Foc | : | Focusing effect |
| Lat | : | Lateralization effect |
| Cp - Cf | : | centripetal, centrifugal movement |
| V | : | Vertical axiality |
| H | : | Horizontal axiality |
| HD | : | Harmonic Diagonal |
| DD | : | Dysharmonic diagonal |
4) Topological and gestaltian liaisons
| U | : | Envelopment |
| u | : | Semi-envelopment |
| : | Encasing/emboxing | |
| : | Separation | |
| / | : | Frontier/boundary |
| : | In front | |
| : | In back | |
| : | Superposition | |
| _______ | : | Continuous |
5) Identifications inside the statistical grid
| A, B, C, D . . . Z | From left to right and top to bottom, each compartment is named by a capital letter of the alphabet. |
Inside a compartment, a number added to the identifying letter locates the four cardinal and the center points. Liaisons or vectorial links between two regions of the pictorial plane can be represented in two ways. Along the clock model, marked dashes connect specific regions positioned approximately at the hour numbers (1 o’clock, 4 o’clock, 10 o’clock . . . ). | |
Or in a parallelepiped similar to the work’s format and divided by a certain grid, a dart relates two compartments at their “hour” location. In illustration; From region F5 to D3. |
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