visual language

Definitions

1. 1

   Those aspects of communication that rely on visual elements, such as illustrations,…

   Those aspects of communication that rely on visual elements, such as illustrations, formatting, gesture, and so on.

   • 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.
2. 2

   VPL (visual programming language)

   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.

   • 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.

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