Description of use::viewing

Enrico Zini enrico at enricozini.org
Sat Sep 23 17:20:46 UTC 2006


On Sat, Sep 23, 2006 at 05:17:14PM +0100, Justin B Rye wrote:
> Enrico Zini wrote:
> > "Data visualization" makes me think of vis5d and all other sort of
> > scientific things.  Maybe just "Viewing" would be better?
> "Viewing images"?  Plain "Visuali[sz]ation"?
>
> The ones where "use::viewing" really does mean "converting datasets
> to graphical form" rather than "playing movies" would presumably
> have distinctive field:: tags, too.  And don't they mostly use
> vector formats? 
[...]
> Turning an existing set of coordinates into an xearth display sounds
> like a pretty good example of data visualisation...

You have almost convinced me.  The last missing bit is: what if a
program takes the numbers and plots them in a .png file instead of on
screen: the program itself doesn't let the user view anything: it just
creates an off-screen image.  Would it be viewing?


Ciao,

Enrico

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