Graphics Reference
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Figure 1. (a) Taylor Royal, “A Titanic t-shirt” (© 2012, T. Royal. Used with permission) (b) Cody John-
son, “A Carbon t-shirt” (© 2012, C. Johnson. Used with permission)
Visual competence is spatial rather than linear.
Learning through visual and spatial thinking can
produce meanings and connotations that cannot
be achieved using language alone. Visual literacy
allows expressing concepts with visual means and
constructing meaning with the use of nonverbal
communication, such as facial expressions, eye
contact, gestures, body language, posture, and
tone of the voice; it is an important component
of personal business interactions. Clothing, hair-
styles, and ambient factors such as architecture,
interior design, and infographics are also impor-
tant. Lengler (2006) lists the vision competencies
as the abilities to:
• Speedily locate, identify and assess patterns
• Speedily assign complex shapes to visual
categories
• Structure, store, and recall objects and
paths in maps
• Reconfigure shapes into new objects
• Express concepts with visual means in a
wide variety of ways
• Construct meaning by integrating different
associated visual messages
• Imagine and rotate objects in 3D space
• Simulate the future behavior of objects,
based on their pattern of change in a given
time period
• Deduce the rules that govern patterns.
