Iconic Forms embody a viewpoint, or Perspective.
The anchored perspective of English Text is from outside the page, from above the script, and linearly from left-to-right for reading.
The single fundamental difference of iconic forms is that they include an Inside, thus providing a choise of viewing perspective.
Parens, bounded and map dialects are read from above, sometimes called a God’s Eye View.
Bucket and wall dialects are viewed from the side, as if we were at the same level.
The block dialect is a three-dimensional representation viewed and manipulated from an arbitrary location in space.
Path, room and network dialects are path oriented. Although their representation on the page is from above, they invite a reading from inside. We partcipate by traveling along a path as time progresses.
Dnets support multiple concurrent processes with localized perspectives that can act asynchronously and independently to achieve global transformation without global coordination.
The variety of iconic dialects is achieved, as illustrated in Figure 44-1, by various rotations and extrusions either of the representation on the page or of the location of our imaginary viewpoint.
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Bricken, Iconic Arithmetic Volume III: The Structure of Imaginary And Infinite Forms, p. 354.
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