"texton" meaning in English

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        "A basic microcomponent of an image that may be recognised visually before the entire image is."
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          "text": "A hypertext such as Afternoon (Joyce 1990) will have a fixed number of scriptons (and textons), while the game Adventure (Crowther and Woods 1976) will have a fixed set of textons but a variable number of scriptons (texton cominations), determined by the progress of the play. In a MUD, where other concurrent users can type in anything, the number of textons is not known.",
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          "text": "First of all, reading the whole text is the strongest literary convention, but as was implicit in the earlier discussion, it can now mean at least four slightly different things: reading every texton and scripton, reading every texton, reading every scripton, and taking every given path through the text (i.e. exhausting the variety of paths).",
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          "text": "Relative ergodic events are chains of events produced by the efforts of one or more individuals or mechanisms that have limited effect upon the textons or scriptons of a narrative such that the impact is only capable of affecting change in monor events within a scripton, or changing narratives at the micro scale and do not impact narratives at the macro scale.",
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