Reconstructing Minard's graphic with the relational visualisation notation

Humphrey, Matthew C.

Reconstructing Minard's graphic with the relational visualisation notation

dc.contributor.author	Humphrey, Matthew C.
dc.date.accessioned	2008-10-29T03:14:13Z
dc.date.available	2008-10-29T03:14:13Z
dc.date.issued	1996-12
dc.description.abstract	Richly expressive information visualisations are difficult to design and rarely found. Few software tools can generate multi-dimensional visualisations at all, let alone incorporate artistic detail. The Relational Visualisation Toolkit is a new system for specifying highly expressive graphical representations of data without traditional programming. We seek to discover the accessible power of this notation-both its graphical expressiveness and its ease of use. Towards this end we have used the system to design and reconstruct Minard's Visualisation of Napoleon's Russian campaign of 1812. The resulting image is very similar to the original, and the design is straightforward to construct. Furthermore, the design is sufficiently general to be able to visualise Hitler's WWII defeat before Moscow.	en_US
dc.format.mimetype	application/pdf
dc.identifier.citation	Humphrey, M. C. (1996). Reconstructing Minard's graphic with the relational visualisation notation. (Working paper 96/30). Hamilton, New Zealand: University of Waikato, Department of Computer Science.	en_US
dc.identifier.issn	1170-487X
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/10289/1192
dc.language.iso	en
dc.relation.ispartofseries	Computer Science Working Papers
dc.subject	computer science	en_US
dc.subject	visualisation	en_US
dc.subject	visual design	en_US
dc.title	Reconstructing Minard's graphic with the relational visualisation notation	en_US
dc.type	Working Paper	en_US
uow.relation.series	96/30