depicter

plural depicters

1. One who, or that which, depicts (a specified subject).

   In the depiction D-HUMAN, N-ARM acts as a depicter; at the same time, in D-ARM, N-ARM is the depictee—the subject of the depiction.

   1979, N. V. Findler, editor, Associative Networks: Representation and Use of Knowledge by Computers, Academic Press, →ISBN, page 24

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   One of the nodes in a depiction is identified as the depictee; depictions describe their depictee in terms of their other nodes, which are known as depicters.

   1977, IJCAI-77: 5th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence-1977: Proceedings of the Conference, page 99

   Antonyms: depictee