MediaGlyphs Contributions

I have contributed pictures for the following to the MediaGlyphs project, in no particular order (the last two have been amended on the main MG site to include pink highlighting):

Adjective-to-adverb suffix: -ly in English, -ment in French, -mente in Spanish (modified by MG originator Giuseppe Insana, as I found it rather tough to render pictorially)
Boolean symbols for some conjunctions
Boundary (two tracts of land separated by a red line; Insana substituted a closed curve with a dashed outline)
A glyph translated monk in “The Blind Man and the Sun”
Garden for the story “Where Is James?”
Preposition between
Verbs imagine (modified by Insana to show an androgynous green human imagining a dog on horseback), pull (androgynous green human pulling a cart), hit and grasp
This and that: androgynous human pointing to nearby object or distant object
Here and there: androgynous human standing at nearby rock or pointing to distant rock; red x also marks location
Slow/fast: sliding arrow pointing to either a turtle or a rabbit
Hot/cold: sliding arrow pointing to either a campfire or an ice cube

Mr. Insana has given me a copy of his androgynous human figure and various props for use in Poser 5. (I have given up on DAZ Studio after being unable to get past the Tell-a-Friend message during installation.) I hope to devise culturally neutral glyphs for the following:

Drink: horse and androgynous human would drink from opposite sides of a stream
Prepositions like with and without
Categorical/descriptive concepts: e.g., system, ability or status — 16 glyphs planned, only two created so far
Obese: difficult to contrast with average human physique while staying culturally neutral
Other concepts not currently represented by MediaGlyphs, and those whose present glyphs are borrowed from elsewhere on the Web

Abstractions are a lower priority at present than picturable concepts, especially as the MediaGlyphs project strives to avoid any kind of bias. Clickable prototype MediaGlyphs appear as the first 10 GIF images in the second table below; they have been converted to PNG format and otherwise modified for the main MediaGlyphs site. The first table contains links to PNG images I created later that were approved by Mr. Insana; the third table contains my pending glyphs. I currently use Cinema 4D, Meshwork and Poser 5 for Mac OS X.

Mr. Insana is concerned about the low-resolution output of the unregistered version of Terragen. I have had difficulty finding vector-art software (the Chlor project looks promising, and I am experimenting with OmniGraffle), so I am using Color It!™ with the following fonts:

Apple Inc.: Zeal
Harold Lohner: Rebus Font
Microsoft: Arial Black, Webdings
Other picture fonts as needed

Matthew White has pointers to other pictographic writing systems.

Table 1: Approved Glyphs

dapan king	dayan queen	daldan fist	daldi beard	daldil mustache	daldis palm of hand
daldon hip	daldus toe	dalkin hand	dalkis male genitals	dalku face (n.)	dalpan forehead
dalpis ankle	dalyal wrist	dalyol elbow	dalyon knee	dalyos thumb	dalyu finger
dalyus female genitals	doku garden	doldin kiss	doldu eat	dolkin laugh	dolku feel by touch
dolkon bow down, stoop	dolpun squat, crouch	dolya climb	dolyon smile	dolyu hold, grasp	dulkan awake (adj.)
dulyun asleep	dunpu island	kaldos sweater	kaldu shirt	kalku shorts	kalya collar
kalyu skirt, kilt	kildos helmet	koyu hole	koldas pull	koldon hit, strike	kolki bounce
koya bump, bulge	kulka basket	kulku curtain	kunpis spoon	kunpos cane	pados seek, search
pakus examine, inspect	payi choose	palki careful	palpus trust	palyos ashamed	panpu sing
pidal greeting, salute	pidas thank	pidi ask	pidis reveal	pikan invite	piki call, summon
piya answer	piyas hide, conceal	pindin nun, pandita	pinyo monk, male clergy	pondu fail, lose	ponyo succeed, win
poyon nude, bare	pudol compete	yalko this object	yalpan here, this place	yalpo that object	yalyin there, that place
yilpi game, contest	yilyal flute	yinka count, enumerate	yuldu angle	yulyan find, discover	yulyon west
yulkon south	yulpon east	yuldon north	yunpal lead, guide	yunyus follow	And many more

Table 2: Approved with Changes

Table 3: Pending Glyphs

dolpo (drink)

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