{
  "id": "visual.perceptual",
  "term": "visual",
  "sense": "perceptual",
  "pos": "adjective",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 7,
  "arena": "visual",
  "domain": "emergence",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "information that is a set of marks on a surface",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "information.knowledge",
      "marks.visual",
      "surface.exterior",
      "sets.grouped"
    ],
    "interaction": "the pattern of distinct marks grouped together on a surface forms a new informational unit.",
    "novel_properties": [
      "grouped distinctness",
      "surface-bound pattern",
      "perceptible structure"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The Lascaux cave paintings in France remained visible for 17,000 years due to stable mineral pigments on limestone walls.",
      "domain": "archaeology"
    },
    {
      "text": "The Gutenberg Bible, printed in 1455, preserved text through oil-based ink bonded to parchment sheets.",
      "domain": "printing"
    },
    {
      "text": "NASA's Voyager Golden Record carries etched diagrams meant to survive interstellar space for over a billion years.",
      "domain": "space"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [],
  "used_by": [
    "beauty.aesthetic",
    "black.color",
    "blue.color",
    "color.visual",
    "display.visual",
    "film.entertainment",
    "green.color",
    "image.visual",
    "light.visual",
    "logo.branding",
    "look.visual",
    "movies.entertainment",
    "pics.visual",
    "pictures.visual",
    "s.letter",
    "screen.visual",
    "sign.symbolic",
    "transparent.visual",
    "video.digital",
    "white.color",
    "yellow.color"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "visual",
    "visuals"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "openrouter:openai/gpt-oss-120b",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.6,
    "reconciled": {
      "by": "openrouter:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
      "date": "2026-07-31",
      "changed": "components",
      "note": "Added 'sets.grouped' to account for the grouping aspect inherent in 'set of marks' in the definition."
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-visual.perceptual"
}