Modeling Language Glyphs
The Four Step Recreative Process
July 27, 1997

Each component of the model is represented by a glyph, the name of the component and a definition, the meaning of the symbolism behind the glyph and a representation of the glyph that you can use in quick sketching, or shorthand notation.

Four Step Recreative Process
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Glyph Etymology Symbology Quick
Glyph
VISION: That which is or has been seen. Unusual competence in discernment or perception. A mental image produced by the imagination. The mystical experience of seeing as if with the eyes the supernatural or a supernatural being. Latin: to see. Eye: symbolic of intelligence and the spirit; a spiritual act
of understanding¹
TEMPLATE: A pattern or gauge used as a guide in making something accurately or in replicating a standard object. Often a piece of wood or a thin metal plate.
Old Fench "temple": a wooden device in a loom that keeps the cloth aligned during weaving.
"Temple": sanctuary
Triangle: holiness, power, a temple.
Slice removed: part that represents the whole, a model.
Spiral: potential movement, independent movement and eventual return ²
ACT: The process of doing or performing something. An enactment or decree. To drive to do. To push, propel or push forward. Infinity: the spiraling movement of the heavens; balance of opposing forces.¹
Circle segment
: elements or substances fundamental to a specific society's or individual's livelihood.²
FEEDBACK: The return of a portion of the output to the input especially when used to maintain the output within predetermined limits. Circle in motion: heaven, perfection; mixing, blending¹
RECREATE: To impart fresh life to. RE-:again. CREATE: to cause to exist; to bring into being; to cause to grow.
Latin: to cause to grow anew
Circle: the universe, perfection.
Japanese heraldic sign in which two seeds of the universe rotate counterclockwise.
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Definitions are paraphrased from The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language New College Edition, 1976

Symbolism is taken from either Carl G. Liungman's Dictionary of Symbols² or J.E. Cirlot's A Dictionary of Symbols¹ or a combination of both.

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