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2003 Aug 21
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Diamond graphs
...in?
A2: anyone who didn't sleep through the twentieth century?
I can summarise diamond graphs this way:
(1) Write a 2D table. - very old idea
(2) Instead of numbers, put blobs of
some kind where the size shows you
the importance. - at least 3000 years old.
(3) Rotate the table widdershins 45
degrees - swiped from 3D displays
(4) Replace the blobs by truncated diamonds;
height of bar or area of polygon or something
shows value. - NOVELTY
(5) Notice that it's not all that readable,
so put the numbers back.
The fact that someone would try to patent...