Soriano also embraces an ephemeral moment, but through his use of a dry, non-pictorial vocabulary, he is able to push a time-honored subject down a new path.
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Boufhal is featured in a non-pictorial article in the June 2010 issue of Playboy United States. Inaccessible as of 3 March 2011.
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Sigurd as imagined by Jenny Nyström (1854–1946). The so-called Prose Edda of Snorri Sturluson is the earliest non- pictorial attestation of the Scandinavian version of Sigurd's life, dating to around 1220. Snorri retells the story of Sigurd in several chapters of the section of the poem called Skáldskaparsmál. His presentation of the story is very similar to that found in the Völsunga saga (see below), but is considerably shorter.
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Track two could have been recorded/written anytime up to 1979. The non-pictorial covers used in the Music Band series continued on this, and the previous volume, The Best of the Music Band (1982) which has a blue cover. Unlike earlier volumes, the last two were not made with elaborate printing methods, but were manufactured using normal four colour printing, without metallic print, embossing, gatefolds or innersleeves.
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The investigation of possibilities gained by the operations that result in instances of the data type »image« but take as a starting point instances of non-pictorial data types is performed in particular in computer graphics and information visualization. The former deals with images in the closer sense, i.e., those pictures showing spatial configurations of objects (in the colloquial meaning of 'object') in a more or less naturalistic representation like, e.g., in virtual architecture.
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Two disciplines share the operations transforming images into non-pictorial data items. The field of pattern recognition is actually not restricted to pictures. But it has performed important precursory work for computational visualistics since the early 1950s in those areas that essentially classify information in given images: the identification of simple geometric Gestalts (e.g., "circular region"), the classification of letters (recognition of handwriting), the "seeing" of spatial objects in the images or even the association of stylistic attributes of the representation.
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That is, the images are to be associated with instances of a non-pictorial data type forming a description of some of their aspects. The neighboring field of computer vision is the part of AI (artificial intelligence) in which computer scientists try to teach – loosely speaking – computers the ability of visual perception. Therefore, a problem rather belongs to computer vision to the degree to which its goal is "semantic", i.e., the result approximates the human seeing of objects in a picture.
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Some email readers offer the option to disable all HTML in every message (thus rendering all messages as plain text), and this too will prevent tracking beacons from working. More recently, many email readers and web-based email services have moved towards not loading images when opening a hypertext email that comes from an unknown sender, or that is suspected to be spam email. The user must explicitly choose to load images. But of course beacons can be embedded in non-pictorial elements of a hypertext email.
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Unlike the Decorated Gothic tracery at St Paul's, the Perpendicular Gothic tracery is repetitious in its form. The visual effect of the church is one of harmony and elegance of proportion. Because of the Evangelical nature of this church, there is no figurative decoration, but the east window by James Powell and Sons of Whitefriars, "variegated with flowers and interspersed with texts", cost £200 and is one of the finest non-pictorial windows in Sydney. St. Andrew's Cathedral 1837-68, is a very tall building for its width, appearing a cathedral rather than a large parish church.
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Since the second half of the 20th century, inscriptions have been found on pottery in a variety of locations in China, such as Banpo near Xi'an, as well as on bone and bone marrows at Hualouzi, Chang'an County near Xi'an. These simple, often geometric, marks have been frequently compared to some of the earliest known Chinese characters appearing on the oracle bones, and some have taken them to mean that the history of Chinese writing extends back over six millennia. However, only isolated instances of these symbols have been found, and they show no indication of representing speech or of the non-pictorial processes that a writing system requires.
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When a user opens the page or email where such an image was embedded, they might not see the image, but their web browser or email reader would automatically download the image, requiring the user's computer to send a request to the host company's server, where the source image was stored. This request would provide identifying information about the computer, allowing the host to keep track of the user. This basic technique has been developed further so that all sorts of elements can be used as beacons. Currently these can include visible elements such as graphics, banners or buttons, but also non-pictorial HTML elements such as the frame, style, script, input link, embed, object, etc.
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However, since beacons can be embedded in email as non-pictorial elements, the email need not contain an image or advertisement or anything else related to the identity of the monitoring party. This makes detection of such emails difficult. One way to neutralize such email tracking is to disconnect from the Internet after downloading email but before reading the downloaded messages. (Note that this assumes one is using an email reader that resides on one's own computer and downloads the emails from the email server to one's own computer.) In that case, messages containing beacons will not be able to trigger requests to the beacons' host servers, and the tracking will be prevented.
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