Definition of "depicter"

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

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, page 24