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It seems obvious to contrast physical representation (a drawing on paper or on a screen) of an object with mental images of this same object. However, there is an important contrast which attracts less attention, between a drawing of a physical object (a house, for example, outlined by a square with a triangle at the top and rectangles for the door…) and a drawing of a geometrical figure (square, circle, triangle…).
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Duval, R. (1995). Geometrical Pictures: Kinds of Representation and Specific Processings. In: Sutherland, R., Mason, J. (eds) Exploiting Mental Imagery with Computers in Mathematics Education. NATO ASI Series, vol 138. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-57771-0_10
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