texton
texton noun: a basic microcomponent of an image that may be recognised visually before the entire image is.
Noun (1)
texton (plural textons)
- A basic microcomponent of an image that may be recognised visually before the entire image is.
Noun (2)
texton (plural textons)
- A string of text that acts like a variable, from which the scriptons of a dynamic text are assembled.
- A hypertext such as Afternoon (Joyce 1990) will have a fixed number of scriptons (and textons), while the game Adventure (Crowther and Woods 1976) will have a fixed set of textons but a variable number of scriptons (texton cominations), determined by the progress of the play. In a MUD, where other...1997, Espen J. Aarseth, Cybertext: Perspectives on Ergodic Literature, →ISBN, page 63
- First of all, reading the whole text is the strongest literary convention, but as was implicit in the earlier discussion, it can now mean at least four slightly different things: reading every texton and scripton, reading every texton, reading every scripton, and taking every given path through the...2012, Markku Eskelinen, Cybertext Poetics: The Critical Landscape of New Media Literary Theory, →ISBN
Forms of texton
| plural | textons |
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Origin of texton
From texture + -on.
From text + -on.
Questions about texton
- What does texton mean?
- Texton means a basic microcomponent of an image that may be recognised visually before the entire image is.
- What part of speech is texton?
- Texton is a noun.
- What is the plural of texton?
- The plural of texton is textons.
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