Visual Language

A picture from a friend's wedding on Facebook. They were posted very close to each other just like a family photo. It showed that they should be very close friends especially the two ladies in the back. You can tell the two in the front were not that close compare to the two ladies in the back because there were some distances in between them. This imply the rule of proximity in visual language. They were all facing the camera and stay close together. The lady at the very end has the highest visual hierarchy because the color of her dress that stand out then the rest. The environment also has profound control on how we see on picture. In this western banquet environment with fine dinning sets and white table cloths, our brain automatically tell us this is some nice event probably a wedding or a corporate dinner.

Visual Thinking Research

David: D

John : D

Answer: E

We both thought is adding the square in first two squares, and subtracting the last two squares. It didn't make any sense and we picked the closest answer, which was D.

David: 17

Vicky: 21

Answer:20

I didn't count the tail triangles correctly on the mid section and end section of the tail as if you broke them down in smaller pieces that still count as triangles . Vicky counted top to bottom and adding up 21 triangles. She said she just miss count on the triangles.

feature channels and visual search

This is the Metro Taipei (like Bart over here) in Taiwan, Taipei. Each Line is categorized by using visual research method on colors. Red color is the most obvious color in this map. The one colored in red is the main line in the Taipei Metro. The interesting part is that if today I don't understand Mandarin nor English, will I still able to recognize some information on this map? Probably, yes. The end and start stations are annotated in solid dots, which have the meaning of end station. It is pretty straight forward and clear to understand. The transit stations have higher visual hierarchy than the end/start stations and they are marked like in different symbols and colors, which make them stand out even more so than start/end stations. Image source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/monhsi/1896193715/

Top to Bottom visual literacy

The picture I chose for the top to bottom visual literacy. I like this picture because I feel I can have many stuff to talk about for this assignment. It is not necessarily I like it, however. The features were the boat's windows, upper deck, and the tip of the boats. I think these were the 3 features that stand out of the rest of the image. The patterns were the buildings, trees, and the ocean ( does sky count as well? I missed that!). The object was very obvious: the boat itself. image source: http://www.portraitpainting.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/3-0804-450x300.jpg