Meaning of visual language | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Those aspects of communication that rely on visual elements, such as illustrations, formatting, gesture, and so on.
2. VPL (visual programming language); a programming language that allows software developers to generate code by manipulating program elements graphically rather than by specifying them textually.

Examples

“However, we also have to learn to "read" and understand the meaning of visual information and the components of visual language.”

“The designer's task is to make visual language responsive to the rhetorical situation: the audience, the purpose, and the context of the document.”

“In order to fulfil this function as a medium of communication, the visual language of botanical illustrations could not differ so much from the conventions of the genre that they became difficult for the audience to understand.”

“In this paper I intend to explore the visual language used in cinema and their connection with human values.”

“A processor for a visual language consists of a graphical frontend attached to phases that analyse and transform the visual programs.”

“Also, the XML-based form of TUIML allowed us to precisely and formally define TUIML while adding a secondary textual notation to the visual language.”

“UML is a visual language.”

“The VPL implementation involves the implementation of a whole programming environment with a user interface which supports developing programs using a visual language.”

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