Theory states that a picture is worth a thousand words.
I examined this theory using the OED definition of the word image , which contains 5,989 words. Stored as a compressed zip file, this definition requires 15,875 bytes which corresponds to 2650 bytes for a thousand words. Experience shows that one cannot store much of a picture in 2650 bytes. Images are sprinkled throughout the CCI web pages. The images that are completely artificial, like the ring of arrows, are about as hard and time consuming to create as a thousand words.