It's really really simple, but like it gives you a really nice pictorial representation of where you are for each of your subjects, I think that's really really important and it works very well for me.
A French scholar, Jean-Francois Champollion, then realised that not only the symbols for Ptolemy but all the hieroglyphs were both pictorial 'and' phonetic they recorded the 'sound' of the Egyptian language.
Andy Warhol attended the Carnegie Institute of Technology where he studied pictorial design. Pictorial design is the art of creating images and drawings.
And this gives me a nice kind of pictorial representation of each of my subjects, each of the topics within those subjects, and how well I know those things.
You know, it really gave you a feeling for, I mean, just imagine like there was no, not, you know, really very little knowledge about these people and certainly no pictorial evidence.
There's other examples I'm sure of like a rebus where there's pictorial elements that are arranged in a way to make something like Paul Rand's IBM logo design.
Occasionally you can see something, and you can quantify it, and you can render it in pictorial terms, and all are realistic, but often those are separate domains.