Figure 3.

An example of the final language produced by a participant in a large group, along with a ‘dictionary' for interpreting it on the right. Box colours represent the four shapes, and the grey axes indicate the direction in which the shape moved. Font colours represent different meaningful part-labels, as segmented by the authors for illustration purposes only. For example, the label in the black circle (wowo-ik) described a scene in which shape 4 moved in a 30° angle. It is composed of several parts: wowo (indicating the shape) and ik (indicating the direction, composed of two meaningful parts: i for ‘up' and k for ‘right').