The Several Steps from Icon to Symbol Using Structured Cone/Pyramids

Abstract

Layered pyramids, cones and quad-trees have been developed almost always with emphasis on only one of their several possibilities. Either:\par 1) They are used to reduce information....\par 2) They are used to converge, collect, organize and broadcast information....\par 3) The are used to effect step-by step transformations that interpret quantitatively encoded images into qualitative identifying features...\par This paper explores how these different uses can be combined, with emphasis on the development of successively higher-level descriptive labellings...