Appendix
Visualization Software
ONE important element of the five-dimensional classification model for visualizations presented in Section 4.3 was the medium, or type of drawing canvas that the rendering takes place on. There are many examples of early visualizations that use paper as the medium [Spence 07]. Modern architectural blueprints can also be seen as visualizations that use a printed medium. Yet, by far the largest class of visualization applications described in this book have one thing in common: they use the computer screen as a medium.
Using the computer to do data visualization is a natural choice from several points of view. First, many visualization scenarios are, by their very nature, explorative. This makes interactive visualization ...
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