Visualization (graphics)
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Visualization is any technique for creating images, diagrams, or animations to communicate a message. Visualization through visual imagery has been an effective way to communicate both abstract and concrete ideas since the dawn of man. Examples from history include cave paintings, Egyptian hieroglyphs, Greek geometry, and Leonardo da Vinci's revolutionary methods of technical drawing for engineering and scientific purposes.
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Visualization techniques
The following are examples of some common visualization techniques:
- Constructing isosurfaces
- direct volume rendering
- Streamlines, streaklines, and pathlines
- table, matrix
- charts (pie chart, bar chart, histogram, function graph, scatter plot, etc.)
- graphs (tree diagram, network diagram, flowchart, existential graph, etc.)
- Maps
- parallel coordinates - a visualization technique aimed at multidimensional data
- treemap - a visualization technique aimed at hierarchical data
- Venn diagram
- Timeline
- Euler diagram
- Chernoff face
- Hyperbolic trees
- brushing and linking
- Cluster diagram or dendrogram
- Ordinogram
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See also
- Concept maps
- Conceptual graphs
- Configurator visualization
- Data Mining, also known as knowledge-discovery in databases (KDD)
- Data visualization
- Edward Tufte
- GeoVisualization, short for Geographic Visualization
- Graphic design
- Graph Drawing
- Human-computer interaction
- Illustration
- Information graphics
- Information visualization
- The Information visualization reference model for construction of Information Visualization systems. Similar to the 'Model view controller' software engineering architectural pattern.
- Knowledge management
- Knowledge transfer
- Morphological Modeling
- Music visualization
- Rendering (computer graphics)
- Scientific modeling
- Statistical graphics
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