# pics (visual)

a collection of visual marks arranged digitally and shared electronically

- Computed level: L14 (depth in the emergence graph, not abstraction)
- Status: review  ·  Domain: express.communication  ·  Arena: pics

## Emergence
**Emerges from:** [pictures](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-pictures.visual), [collection](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-collection.group), [digital](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-digital.electrical), [electrical](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-electrical.electrical), [share](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-share.distribution), [via](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-via.route), [visual](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-visual.perceptual)

**Through:** pictures.visual form a collection.group that is transmitted via digital.electrical signals over electrical.electrical pathways

**Novel properties:**
- digital sharing of images
- distributed visual grouping
- electronic transmission of pictures

## Examples
- The 2017 Equifax data breach exposed 147 million people's personal records stored as digital images of documents. *(computing)*
- NASA's Voyager 1 transmitted the 'Pale Blue Dot' image from 6 billion kilometers away in 1990. *(space)*
- The Instagram post by @natgeo on July 12, 2023, received 4.2 million likes for its glacier time-lapse series. *(socialmedia)*

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*Canonical: https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-pics.visual*  
*Structured data: https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-pics.visual.json*  
*Every definition provably resolves to space, time, energy and pattern.*