Memorise information by visualising people from a 10k system

Note: This article makes the most sense if you have read an earlier article which states that any number from 00 to 99 has its own syllable. eg. 17 is matched with the syllable 'MA' . So words and spellings can be interpreted as numbers by translating their syllables into their particular numbers.

Images of people are a great tool for a memoriser. Not only are images of people capable of representing information on their own but the person can be imagined performing an action and thus build a visual story containing even more information. Furthermore, a person can have characteristics such as a standard phrase which he says or a possession which he carries - these are ways of storing pre-rehearsed information. Furthermore, humans are typically very capable at noticing the distinguishing features of faces!

A memory system of 10000 people (also known as '10k people') would have been daunting some years ago; but nowadays, with the ability of search engines to search specifically for portrait face images and the ability to confine a search engine search to a specific web site, you can find 1000s of images of people. The only problem, currently, is that different countries likely have different laws about the permission to save images which come from a site and which contain people's faces. And you would be wise, when building a system of photographic images, to back up the files because it takes many many hours of work to collect the images.

My starting place for building a 10k people system was to design 100 sets of 100 people images because 100 lots of 100 equals a ten thousand people system.

My other thoughts were about what these people could represent. The 100 syllable system from earlier in this course states that BA = 00, BE = 01, BI = 02, etc.. So, by that logic, image 0000 is like saying BABA (the BA 00 meets another BA 00), image 0102 is like saying BEBI (the BE 01 meets the BI 02). A benefit of this could be foreign language learning where one person image can be imagined in a story concerning the meaning of a foreign word. If KUCHI means 'mouth' in an oriental language then person KUCHI (ie person 6367 made of 63 (KU) and 67 (CHI)) can be imagined pointing at his or her mouth or with a swollen mouth so that a mnemonic exists to connect KUCHI to the idea of a 'mouth'.

The surnames of these people could be facts and figures. eg. 6789 (CHIYU [CHI then YU matching numbers]) might be the answer to 67 x 69 ; or 67 / 69

You can imagine each person saying a speech or putting it to music and singing a song. The lyrics might translate into digits and describe very long numbers.

these are the main ideas behind the system which I should like to build. I have 10,000 images but I need to plan their best use.

One idea is to be careful what colour the clothing of each person is since colour can represent a particular digit. So, if a person is memorised in a story where he does an action to an object in a place, that colour plus the place plus the action plus the object can translate into a 10 digit number.