Pastor Rick
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Heraldry, The art and science of identity
I have always liked heraldry. It speaks of a different time and culture where something was either right or wrong, no shades of grey involved. Or at least that is how it seems in my dreams.
The picture you see on a shield or flag is called an emblazon. This is wonderful if you can see the picture yet having a discussion on the merits of the design or just chatting about the picture itself is difficult when others can not see the same picture. As a result those who work with heraldry have developed a method of describing the picture in words. The words used have rules attached to them so that when spoken or written down they describe the picture in a way that makes it possible for others to recreate a reasonable version of the picture. The words and terms used for this process is called the blazon.
I liken this to BOTH CSS and HTML. You have to have all the parts in the correct order to get the results correct but there is a lot of room left for creativity since there is often more than one way to get things correctly displayed.
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2/12/14, 10:45 pm
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