ABSTRACT
How much is a picture worth? Our interpretation of the world is based upon metaphorical descriptions of images recorded by the senses. Human social development has historically been especially dependent upon the visual interpretation or conceptualization of the world; western society in particular tends to regard vision as the most important and knowledge-dependent sense. The process of seeing creates, stores, and interprets thousands of images daily. As society has advanced, so has the ability to interpret visual cues. In fact, humans are so competent at image interpretation that it is only when an attempt is made to replicate these capabilities using computer programs that we realize how powerful our innate pattern-recognizing abilities actually are. As the world and technology advance to produce more visually complex scenes, each image can be said to distill the meaning of thousands of words.
