Friday, March 2, 2007

Class activity: Types of representation

Today's class activity was an exercise on the types of representation.


The object selected is a pig.

As you all can see, the first picture is iconical representation of a pig's head.

The second picture shows an indexical representation, with a round shape to indicate the pig's body. The stout and tail are added to give context to the round shape.

The third picture is the back view indexical representation of a pig. Once again, I used the round shape to represent the pig's sihoulette, and the curly tail and legs are drawn in to give the recognition of a pig.
Lecturer's feedback was that it was not necessary to draw the body at all. The indexical representation could simply be the stout or the tail because these are self explanatory symbols. From our own context and knowledge, we can easily recognize these as parts of the pig body.
Finalized representation

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