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Re:Written in Heraldry by lapinot on Tuesday September 27, 2022 @06:12PM (#33001786)
The formal art of describing a coat of arms is quite funny, eg "Party per pale argent and vert, a tree eradicated counterchanged". See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blazon

There's an actual formal grammar for it together with an image generator in ocaml (paper in french: https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00640989, demo: https://www.irif.fr/~eleph/Recherche/Hrld/img-dbs/index.html)

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Re:Written in Heraldry by karlwilcox on Wednesday September 28, 2022 @12:50PM (#33010161)
Or see a more complete implementation of English blazonry here https://drawshield.net (disclaimer I am the creator of this site, and to follow up a point below, yes, I did approach Blazonry as a programming language)
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