Visual metaphors

Heterogeneous nucleation of polymer crystallization resembling a visualized metaphor compare the way meat is prepared in an oriental way shish - kebab. 

In the lower diagram, Dalton s use of both the square atoms and their rays appear to be entirely rhetorical devices, being a visual metaphor for his statement that no equilibrium can be established by particles of unequal... 

Robertson et al. discuss visual enhancements that were made to BizTalk mapper as well as a user evaluation [Robertson et al. 2005], The tool uses the same visual metaphor for matching as many of the previously mentioned tools (see Fig. 2.11) and many of the visual enhancements are similar to features of the CogZ tool. 

FIGURE 3.1 Great chain of being a powerful visual metaphor for a divinely inspired universal hierarchy ranking all forms of higher and lower life the male alone represents humans. From Didacus Valades, Rhetorica Christiana (1579). Reproduced here from Anthony Fletcher s Gender, Sex, Subordination [38]... 

Angeli experimentally demonstrated the asymmetric structure of azoxy compounds and their isomers [107], thereby rewriting the concept of oscillation conceived by August Kekule (1829-96) with his famous visual metaphor of the snake biting its own tail [108]. The principle of his idea is that the N -O dipole... 

According to Venel, one of the characteristics of chemists was to rely on their ability to see at a glance (ie coup d ceil). Despite the visual metaphor, this skill implied much more than just vision the faculty of judging by a feeling is known to the worker as seeing at a glance, and it is an abihty that he owes to the habit he has of dealing with his material . ... 

Surrealist artist Max Ernst defined collage as the "alchemy of the visual image." Students of his work have often dismissed this comment as simply a metaphor for the transformative power of using found images in a new context. Taking a wholly different perspective on Ernst and alchemy, however, M. E. Warlick persuasively demonstrates that the artist had a profound and abiding interest in alchemical philosophy and often used alchemical symbolism in works created throughout his career. 

All this sounds more like a metaphor and this is probably why the idea was so catchy - it draws on visual evidence of simple and well-known mechanisms. However, from a metaphor to a chemical reality there is a wide gap - how proteins... 

Now you keep the tank in your room to help visualize intersections of 3-D objects with 2-D worlds. You reach into the water and withdraw a ball. Here s what a sphere looks like to an inhabitant of Flatland. The surface of the water is a metaphor for Flatland. You push the ball down so that it just touches the water at a point. You push further and the point turns into a circle. The circle enlarges until it reaches a maximum size and then shrinks back down to a point as you push the sphere under the water. The point disappears. 

What do poets and scientists have in common They both use metaphors to help us understand abstract concepts and relationships. The orbital," for example, is a metaphor that helps us visual-i ize an invisible reality. Scientific models are essentially equivalent to the metaphorical language used in poetry. 

Visual devices are also useful for indicating order. Primary among them are lines. Lines form the skeletons of trees and graphs, both of which are commonly used to display ordered concepts, to indicate asymmetry on a variety of relations, including kind of, part of, reports to, and derived from. Examples include hierarchical displays, as in linguistic trees, evolutionary trees, and organizational charts. Other visual and spatial devices used to display order rest on the metaphor of salience. More salient features have more of the relevant property. Such features include size, color,... 

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