Computer graphics (2nd ed. in C): principles and practice
Computer graphics (2nd ed. in C): principles and practice
Readings in information visualization: using vision to think
Readings in information visualization: using vision to think
Continuum: designing timelines for hierarchies, relationships and scale
Proceedings of the 20th annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology
Combining cultural heritage related web resources in 3D information landscapes
EVA'11 Proceedings of the 2011 international conference on Electronic Visualisation and the Arts
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The paper is historical in two respects, both concerned with visual representations of past time. Its first purpose is to enquire how visual representations of historical time can be used to bring out patterns in a museum collection. A case study is presented of the visualisation of data with sufficient subtlety to be useful to historians and curators. Such a visual analytics approach raises questions about the proper representation of time and of objects and events within it. It is argued that such chronographics can support both an externalised, objectivising point of view from 'outside' time and one which is immersive and gives a sense of the historic moment. These modes are set in their own historical context through original historical research, highlighting the shift to an Enlightenment view of time as a uniform container for events. This in turn prompts new ways of thinking about chronological visualisation, in particular the separation of the 'ideal' image of time from contingent, temporary rendered views.