The term "pictorial code" is correct and can be used in written English.
It is generally used to refer to a code system using images or symbols to convey a message or represent data. For example, a pictorial code could be used to quickly communicate various safety instructions around a workplace.
The design includes pictorial warnings and colour coding, so that even illiterate rural healthcare workers can operate the machine.
This new intervention is based on simple instruction, pictorial representation and color-coding for ease of use, and other accommodations to help patients, particularly those with poor literacy and numeracy skills.
The 13 subway lines that operate beneath the city are colour coded, and pictorial information at stations gives instructions to locate connecting trains.
Figure 9 Pictorial representation of the surface code.
Figure 11 Pictorial representation of the rotated surface code.
And they ultimately found that when the art of the body meets with the science of cultural codification, the most natural product is a pictorial art that reflects the way that social and cultural codes are conveyed by pictures.
Domain-specific prior knowledge, pacing of the materials, pictorial format, mapping requirements, and distinctiveness of signals were coded as moderators.
We used Picasso´s and Poussin´s work as a visual referent to study the code behind the painting, the mathematics hidden behind the pictorial forms".
At HuffPost, we have the same philosophy: many of our editors write HTML and JavaScript code to create interactive articles on our site (like this dramatic pictorial on the devastation of the Oklahoma tornadoes).
The general conclusion reached by Kosslyn & Pomerantz was that description (propositional) theories could only explain these effects by making ad hoc auxiliary assumptions about how the propositional (mentalese) code is organized and processed, whereas the explanations of quasi-pictorial theory flow naturally from the core theory itself.
