Article | REF: T4550 V1

Schematics. Instructions for use

Author: Louis REYNES

Publication date: May 10, 1995

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2. Schematic components

Communication theory applies to schematization. There is a sender who creates the diagram and a receiver who deciphers it. To understand each other, the two actors must share a repertoire of signs and their assembly rules. The schematic is therefore like a language, with its own words (symbols) and syntax (relations).

2.1 Symbols

To represent reality, we reduce it by successive abstractions to signs or symbols. This reduction of reality ranges from the object itself to its translation into coded words, equations or formulas, via representations that are further and further removed from reality: models, photos, perspective views, two-dimensional drawings, schematic diagrams and so on. The degree of iconicity of a diagram is inversely proportional to its degree...

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