Geometrical language - Imagination time!

 

Do you know these symbols? Have you ever heard of geometric language? Well, in today's post we will go deeper into this topic.

The researchers used an AI algorithm called DreamCoder, developed a few years ago by Kevin Ellis when he was a doctoral student working with Dr. Tenenbaum; he is now a computer scientist at Cornell University and author of the new study. DreamCoder modelled how the mind might use programming language to process shapes optimally: the algorithm finds, or learns, the shortest possible program for any given shape or pattern. The theory is that the mind operates in the same way.

Researchers developed a programming language to generate shapes of increasing complexity. The theory is that the brain encodes shapes in a similar way as programmes in a language.

On the right, shapes found in many cultures include lines, circles, spirals, zigzags, squares and squares of circles. That said, how many of the symbols can you identify? 

I invite you to comment on a shape in your everyday life that reminds you of one of the shapes in the diagram - let's get creative, let's use our imagination!