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</style><table class="infobox ib-book vcard"><caption class="infobox-title">The Visualization Handbook </caption><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Author</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="Charles_D._Hansen" title="Charles D. Hansen">Charles D. Hansen</a><br><a href="Christopher_R._Johnson" title="Christopher R. Johnson">Christopher R. Johnson</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Language</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="English_language" title="English language">English</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Subject</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="Scientific_visualization" title="Scientific visualization">Scientific visualization</a><br><a href="Computer_graphics" title="Computer graphics">Computer graphics</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Publisher</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="Elsevier" title="Elsevier">Elsevier</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;">Publication date</div></th><td class="infobox-data">2005</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Publication place</th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span></span></span> </span><a href="United_States" title="United States">United States</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">

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<p><i><b>The Visualization Handbook</b></i> is a <a href="Textbook" title="Textbook">textbook</a> by <a href="Charles_D._Hansen" title="Charles D. Hansen">Charles D. Hansen</a> and <a href="Christopher_R._Johnson" title="Christopher R. Johnson">Christopher R. Johnson</a> that serves as a survey of the field of <a href="Scientific_visualization" title="Scientific visualization">scientific visualization</a> by presenting the basic concepts and <a href="Algorithms" class="mw-redirect" title="Algorithms">algorithms</a> in addition to a current review of visualization research topics and tools.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It is commonly used as a <a href="Textbook" title="Textbook">textbook</a> for <a href="Scientific_visualization" title="Scientific visualization">scientific visualization</a> <a href="Course_(education)" title="Course (education)">graduate courses</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It is also commonly <a href="Citation" title="Citation">cited</a> as a reference for <a href="Scientific_visualization" title="Scientific visualization">scientific visualization</a> and <a href="Computer_graphics" title="Computer graphics">computer graphics</a> in published <a href="Academic_publishing#Scholarly_paper" title="Academic publishing">papers</a>, with almost 500 citations documented on <a href="Google_Scholar" title="Google Scholar">Google Scholar</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>

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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Table_of_Contents">Table of Contents</h2></div>

<ul><li>PART I - Introduction</li></ul>

<ol><li>Overview of Visualization - <a href="Kitware" title="Kitware">William J. Schroeder</a> and Kenneth M. Martin</li></ol>

<ul><li>PART II - <a href="Scalar_Field" class="mw-redirect" title="Scalar Field">Scalar Field</a> Visualization: <a href="Isosurface" title="Isosurface">Isosurfaces</a></li></ul>

<ol><li>Accelerated Isosurface Extraction Approaches -Yarden Livnat</li>

<li>Time-Dependent Isosurface Extraction - Han-Wei Shen</li>

<li>Optimal Isosurface Extraction - Paolo Cignoni, Claudio Montani, Robert Scopigno, and Enrico Puppo</li>

<li>Isosurface Extraction Using Extrema Graphs - Takayuki Itoh and Koji Koyamada</li>

<li>Isosurfaces and <a href="Level_set_method" class="mw-redirect" title="Level set method">Level-Sets</a> - <a href="Ross_Whitaker" class="mw-redirect" title="Ross Whitaker">Ross Whitaker</a></li></ol>

<ul><li>PART III - Scalar Field Visualization: <a href="Volume_rendering" title="Volume rendering">Volume Rendering</a></li></ul>

<ol><li>Overview of Volume Rendering - <a href="Arie_E._Kaufman" title="Arie E. Kaufman">Arie E. Kaufman</a> and Klaus Mueller</li>

<li>Volume Rendering Using <a href="Texture_splatting" title="Texture splatting">Splatting</a> - Roger Crawfis, Daqing Xue, and Caixia Zhang</li>

<li>Multidimensional <a href="Transfer_function" title="Transfer function">Transfer Functions</a> for Volume Rendering - Joe Kniss, <a href="Gordon_Kindlmann" title="Gordon Kindlmann">Gordon Kindlmann</a>, and <a href="Charles_D._Hansen" title="Charles D. Hansen">Charles D. Hansen</a></li>

<li>Pre-Integrated Volume Rendering - Martin Kraus and Thomas Ertl</li>

<li><a href="Volume_rendering#Hardware-accelerated_volume_rendering" title="Volume rendering">Hardware-Accelerated Volume Rendering</a> - <a href="Hanspeter_Pfister" title="Hanspeter Pfister">Hanspeter Pfister</a></li></ol>

<ul><li>PART IV - <a href="Vector_Field" class="mw-redirect" title="Vector Field">Vector Field</a> Visualization</li></ul>

<ol><li>Overview of <a href="Flow_visualization" title="Flow visualization">Flow Visualization</a> - Daniel Weiskopf and Gordon Erlebacher</li>

<li><a href="Lagrangian%E2%80%93Eulerian_advection" title="Lagrangian–Eulerian advection">Flow Textures: High-Resolution Flow Visualization</a> - Gordon Erlebacher, Bruno Jobard, and Daniel Weiskopf</li>

<li><a href="Vortex_core_line" title="Vortex core line">Detection and Visualization of Vortices</a> - Ming Jiang, Raghu Machiraju, and David Thompson</li></ol>

<ul><li>PART V - <a href="Tensor_field" title="Tensor field">Tensor Field</a> Visualization</li></ul>

<ol><li>Oriented Tensor Reconstruction - Leonid Zhukov and Alan H. Barr</li>

<li><a href="Diffusion_MRI" class="mw-redirect" title="Diffusion MRI">Diffusion Tensor MRI</a> Visualization - Song Zhang, <a href="David_Laidlaw" title="David Laidlaw">David Laidlaw</a>, and <a href="Gordon_Kindlmann" title="Gordon Kindlmann">Gordon Kindlmann</a></li>

<li><a href="Topological_fluid_dynamics" title="Topological fluid dynamics">Topological Methods</a> for Flow Visualization - Gerik Scheuermann and Xavier Tricoche</li></ol>

<ul><li>PART VI - <a href="Geometric_modeling" title="Geometric modeling">Geometric Modeling</a> for Visualization</li></ul>

<ol><li><a href="Polygon_mesh" title="Polygon mesh">3D Mesh</a> Compression - Jarek Rossignac</li>

<li>Variational Modeling Methods for Visualization - <a href="Hans_Hagen" title="Hans Hagen">Hans Hagen</a> and Ingrid Hotz</li>

<li>Model Simplification - Jonathan D. Cohen and <a href="Dinesh_Manocha" title="Dinesh Manocha">Dinesh Manocha</a></li></ol>

<ul><li>PART VII - <a href="Virtual_environment_software" title="Virtual environment software">Virtual Environments for Visualization</a></li></ul>

<ol><li><a href="3D_user_interaction" class="mw-redirect" title="3D user interaction">Direct Manipulation in Virtual Reality</a> - Steve Bryson</li>

<li>The Visual Haptic Workbench - Milan Ikits and J. Dean Brederson</li>

<li><a href="Virtual_geographic_environments" title="Virtual geographic environments">Virtual Geographic Information Systems</a> - William Ribarsky</li>

<li>Visualization Using <a href="Virtual_reality" title="Virtual reality">Virtual Reality</a> - <a href="R._Bowen_Loftin" title="R. Bowen Loftin">R. Bowen Loftin</a>, Jim X. Chen, and <a href="Lawrence_J._Rosenblum" title="Lawrence J. Rosenblum">Larry Rosenblum</a></li></ol>

<ul><li>PART VIII - <a href="Big_data" title="Big data">Large-Scale Data</a> Visualization</li></ul>

<ol><li>Desktop Delivery: Access to Large Datasets - Philip D. Heermann and Constantine Pavlakos</li>

<li>Techniques for Visualizing <a href="Time_series" title="Time series">Time-Varying</a> Volume Data - <a href="Kwan-Liu_Ma" title="Kwan-Liu Ma">Kwan-Liu Ma</a> and Eric B. Lum</li>

<li>Large-Scale Data Visualization and Rendering: A Problem-Driven Approach - Patrick McCormick and James Ahrens</li>

<li>Issues and Architectures in Large-Scale Data Visualization - Constantine Pavlakos and Philip D. Heermann</li>

<li>Consuming Network Bandwidth with Visapult - Wes Bethel and John Shalf</li></ol>

<ul><li>PART IX - Visualization Software and Frameworks</li></ul>

<ol><li><a href="VTK" title="VTK">The Visualization Toolkit</a> - William J. Schroeder and Kenneth M. Martin</li>

<li>Visualization in the SCIRun Problem-Solving Environment - David M. Weinstein, Steven Parker, Jenny Simpson, Kurt Zimmerman, and Greg M. Jones</li>

<li><a href="Numerical_Algorithms_Group" class="mw-redirect" title="Numerical Algorithms Group">Numerical Algorithms Group</a> IRIS Explorer - Jeremy Walton</li>

<li>AVS and AVS/Express - Jean M. Favre and Mario Valle</li>

<li><a href="Vis5D" title="Vis5D">Vis5D</a>, <a href="Cave5D" title="Cave5D">Cave5D</a>, and <a href="VisAD" title="VisAD">VisAD</a> - <a href="Bill_Hibbard" title="Bill Hibbard">Bill Hibbard</a></li>

<li>Visualization with AVS - W. T. Hewitt, Nigel W. John, Matthew D. Cooper, K. Yien Kwok, George W. Leaver, Joanna M. Leng, Paul G. Lever, Mary J. McDerby, James S. Perrin, Mark Riding, I. Ari Sadarjoen, Tobias M. Schiebeck, and Colin C. Venters</li>

<li><a href="ParaView" title="ParaView">ParaView</a>: An End-User Tool for Large-Data Visualization - James Ahrens, Berk Geveci, and Charles Law</li>

<li>The <a href="Insight_Segmentation_and_Registration_Toolkit" title="Insight Segmentation and Registration Toolkit">Insight Toolkit</a>: An Open-Source Initiative in <a href="Image_segmentation" title="Image segmentation">Data Segmentation</a> and <a href="Image_registration" title="Image registration">Registration</a> - Terry S. Yoo</li>

<li><a href="Amira_(software)" title="Amira (software)">amira</a>: A Highly Interactive System for Visual Data Analysis - Detlev Stalling, Malte Westerhoff, and <a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans-Christian_Hege" class="extiw external" title="de:Hans-Christian Hege">Hans-Christian Hege</a></li></ol>

<ul><li>PART X - <a href="Perception" title="Perception">Perceptual</a> Issues in Visualization</li></ul>

<ol><li>Extending Visualization to Perceptualization: The Importance of Perception in Effective Communication of Information - David S. Ebert</li>

<li>Art and Science in Visualization - <a href="Victoria_Interrante" title="Victoria Interrante">Victoria Interrante</a></li>

<li>Exploiting Human Visual Perception in Visualization - <a href="Alan_Chalmers" title="Alan Chalmers">Alan Chalmers</a> and Kirsten Cater</li></ol>

<ul><li>PART XI - Selected Topics and Applications</li></ul>

<ol><li>Scalable <a href="Graph_drawing" title="Graph drawing">Network Visualization</a> - Stephen G. Eick</li>

<li>Visual <a href="Data_mining" title="Data mining">Data-Mining</a> Techniques - <a href="Daniel_A._Keim" title="Daniel A. Keim">Daniel A. Keim</a>, Mike Sips, and Mihael Ankerst</li>

<li>Visualization in Weather and Climate Research - Don Middleton, Tim Scheitlin, and Bob Wilhelmson</li>

<li>Painting and Visualization - Robert M. Kirby, Daniel F. Keefe, and <a href="David_Laidlaw" title="David Laidlaw">David Laidlaw</a></li>

<li>Visualization and Natural Control Systems for Microscopy - Russell M. Taylor II, David Borland, <a href="Fred_Brooks" title="Fred Brooks">Frederick P. Brooks, Jr.</a>, Mike Falvo, Kevin Jeffay, Gail Jones, David Marshburn, Stergios J. Papadakis, Lu-Chang Qin, Adam Seeger, F. Donelson Smith, Dianne Sonnenwald, Richard Superfine, Sean Washburn, Chris Weigle, <a href="Mary_Whitton" title="Mary Whitton">Mary Whitton</a>, Leandra Vicci, Martin Guthold, <a href="Tom_Hudson_(programmer)" title="Tom Hudson (programmer)">Tom Hudson</a>, Philip Williams, and <a href="Warren_Robinett" title="Warren Robinett">Warren Robinett</a></li>

<li>Visualization for Computational <a href="Accelerator_physics" title="Accelerator physics">Accelerator Physics</a> - <a href="Kwan-Liu_Ma" title="Kwan-Liu Ma">Kwan-Liu Ma</a>, Greg Schussman, and Brett Wilson</li></ol>

<ul><li><i><a href="Numerical_Recipes" title="Numerical Recipes">Numerical Recipes</a></i></li>

<li><i><a href="Computer_Graphics%3A_Principles_and_Practice" title="Computer Graphics: Principles and Practice">Computer Graphics: Principles and Practice</a></i></li></ul>

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</style><div id="Visualization_of_technical_information112" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em"><a href="Visualization_(graphics)" title="Visualization (graphics)">Visualization</a> of technical information</div></th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Fields</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="Biological_data_visualization" title="Biological data visualization">Biological data visualization</a></li>

<li><a href="Chemical_imaging" title="Chemical imaging">Chemical imaging</a></li>

<li><a href="Crime_mapping" title="Crime mapping">Crime mapping</a></li>

<li><a href="Data_visualization" class="mw-redirect" title="Data visualization">Data visualization</a></li>

<li><a href="Visualization_(graphics)" title="Visualization (graphics)">Educational visualization</a></li>

<li><a href="Flow_visualization" title="Flow visualization">Flow visualization</a></li>

<li><a href="Geovisualization" title="Geovisualization">Geovisualization</a></li>

<li><a href="Information_visualization" class="mw-redirect" title="Information visualization">Information visualization</a></li>

<li><a href="Mathematical_diagram" title="Mathematical diagram">Mathematical visualization</a></li>

<li><a href="Medical_imaging" title="Medical imaging">Medical imaging</a></li>

<li><a href="Molecular_graphics" title="Molecular graphics">Molecular graphics</a></li>

<li><a href="Visualization_(graphics)" title="Visualization (graphics)">Product visualization</a></li>

<li><a href="Scientific_visualization" title="Scientific visualization">Scientific visualization</a></li>

<li><a href="Social_visualization" title="Social visualization">Social visualization</a></li>

<li><a href="Software_visualization" title="Software visualization">Software visualization</a></li>

<li><a href="Technical_drawing" title="Technical drawing">Technical drawing</a></li>

<li><a href="User_interface_design" title="User interface design">User interface design</a></li>

<li><a href="Visual_analytics" title="Visual analytics">Visual analytics</a></li>

<li><a href="Visual_culture" title="Visual culture">Visual culture</a></li>

<li><a href="Volume_rendering" title="Volume rendering">Volume visualization</a></li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Image <br>types</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="Chart" title="Chart">Chart</a></li>

<li><a href="Diagram" title="Diagram">Diagram</a></li>

<li><a href="Engineering_drawing" title="Engineering drawing">Engineering drawing</a></li>

<li><a href="Graph_of_a_function" title="Graph of a function">Graph of a function</a></li>

<li><a href="Ideogram" title="Ideogram">Ideogram</a></li>

<li><a href="Photograph" title="Photograph">Photograph</a></li>

<li><a href="Pictogram" title="Pictogram">Pictogram</a></li>

<li><a href="Sankey_diagram" title="Sankey diagram">Sankey diagram</a></li>

<li><a href="Schematic" title="Schematic">Schematic</a></li>

<li><a href="Skeletal_formula" title="Skeletal formula">Skeletal formula</a></li>

<li><a href="Statistical_graphics" title="Statistical graphics">Statistical graphics</a></li>

<li><a href="Table_(information)" title="Table (information)">Table</a></li>

<li><a href="Technical_drawing" title="Technical drawing">Technical drawings</a></li>

<li><a href="Technical_illustration" title="Technical illustration">Technical illustration</a></li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">People</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Pre-19th century</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="Edmond_Halley" title="Edmond Halley">Edmond Halley</a></li>

<li><a href="Charles-Ren%C3%A9_de_Fourcroy" title="Charles-René de Fourcroy">Charles-René de Fourcroy</a></li>

<li><a href="Joseph_Priestley" title="Joseph Priestley">Joseph Priestley</a></li>

<li><a href="Gaspard_Monge" title="Gaspard Monge">Gaspard Monge</a></li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">19th century</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="Charles_Dupin" title="Charles Dupin">Charles Dupin</a></li>

<li><a href="Adolphe_Quetelet" title="Adolphe Quetelet">Adolphe Quetelet</a></li>

<li><a href="Andr%C3%A9-Michel_Guerry" title="André-Michel Guerry">André-Michel Guerry</a></li>

<li><a href="William_Playfair" title="William Playfair">William Playfair</a></li>

<li><a href="August_Kekul%C3%A9" title="August Kekulé">August Kekulé</a></li>

<li><a href="Charles_Joseph_Minard" title="Charles Joseph Minard">Charles Joseph Minard</a></li>

<li><a href="Francis_Amasa_Walker" title="Francis Amasa Walker">Francis Amasa Walker</a></li>

<li><a href="Oliver_Byrne_(mathematician)" title="Oliver Byrne (mathematician)">Oliver Byrne</a></li>

<li><a href="Matthew_Henry_Phineas_Riall_Sankey" title="Matthew Henry Phineas Riall Sankey">Matthew Sankey</a></li>

<li><a href="Charles_Booth_(social_reformer)" title="Charles Booth (social reformer)">Charles Booth</a></li>

<li><a href="Florence_Nightingale" title="Florence Nightingale">Florence Nightingale</a></li>

<li><a href="Karl_Wilhelm_Pohlke" title="Karl Wilhelm Pohlke">Karl Wilhelm Pohlke</a></li>

<li><a href="Toussaint_Loua" title="Toussaint Loua">Toussaint Loua</a></li>

<li><a href="Francis_Galton" title="Francis Galton">Francis Galton</a></li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Early 20th century</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="Edward_Walter_Maunder" title="Edward Walter Maunder">Edward Walter Maunder</a></li>

<li><a href="Otto_Neurath" title="Otto Neurath">Otto Neurath</a></li>

<li><a href="Henry_Gantt" title="Henry Gantt">Henry Gantt</a></li>

<li><a href="Arthur_Lyon_Bowley" title="Arthur Lyon Bowley">Arthur Lyon Bowley</a></li>

<li><a href="Howard_G._Funkhouser" title="Howard G. Funkhouser">Howard G. Funkhouser</a></li>

<li><a href="John_B._Peddle" title="John B. Peddle">John B. Peddle</a></li>

<li><a href="Ejnar_Hertzsprung" title="Ejnar Hertzsprung">Ejnar Hertzsprung</a></li>

<li><a href="Henry_Norris_Russell" title="Henry Norris Russell">Henry Norris Russell</a></li>

<li><a href="Max_O._Lorenz" title="Max O. Lorenz">Max O. Lorenz</a></li>

<li><a href="Fritz_Kahn" title="Fritz Kahn">Fritz Kahn</a></li>

<li><a href="Harry_Beck" title="Harry Beck">Harry Beck</a></li>

<li><a href="Erwin_Raisz" title="Erwin Raisz">Erwin Raisz</a></li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Mid 20th century</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="Jacques_Bertin" title="Jacques Bertin">Jacques Bertin</a></li>

<li><a href="Rudolf_Modley" title="Rudolf Modley">Rudolf Modley</a></li>

<li><a href="Arthur_H._Robinson" title="Arthur H. Robinson">Arthur H. Robinson</a></li>

<li><a href="John_Tukey" title="John Tukey">John Tukey</a></li>

<li><a href="Mary_Eleanor_Spear" title="Mary Eleanor Spear">Mary Eleanor Spear</a></li>

<li><a href="Edgar_Anderson" title="Edgar Anderson">Edgar Anderson</a></li>

<li><a href="Howard_T._Fisher" title="Howard T. Fisher">Howard T. Fisher</a></li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Late 20th century</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="Borden_Dent" title="Borden Dent">Borden Dent</a></li>

<li><a href="Nigel_Holmes" title="Nigel Holmes">Nigel Holmes</a></li>

<li><a href="William_S._Cleveland" title="William S. Cleveland">William S. Cleveland</a></li>

<li><a href="George_G._Robertson" title="George G. Robertson">George G. Robertson</a></li>

<li><a href="Bruce_H._McCormick" title="Bruce H. McCormick">Bruce H. McCormick</a></li>

<li><a href="Catherine_Plaisant" title="Catherine Plaisant">Catherine Plaisant</a></li>

<li><a href="Stuart_Card" title="Stuart Card">Stuart Card</a></li>

<li><a href="Pat_Hanrahan" title="Pat Hanrahan">Pat Hanrahan</a></li>

<li><a href="Edward_Tufte" title="Edward Tufte">Edward Tufte</a></li>

<li><a href="Ben_Shneiderman" title="Ben Shneiderman">Ben Shneiderman</a></li>

<li><a href="Michael_Friendly" title="Michael Friendly">Michael Friendly</a></li>

<li><a href="Howard_Wainer" title="Howard Wainer">Howard Wainer</a></li>

<li><a href="Clifford_A._Pickover" title="Clifford A. Pickover">Clifford A. Pickover</a></li>

<li><a href="Lawrence_J._Rosenblum" title="Lawrence J. Rosenblum">Lawrence J. Rosenblum</a></li>

<li><a href="Thomas_A._DeFanti" title="Thomas A. DeFanti">Thomas A. DeFanti</a></li>

<li><a href="George_Furnas" title="George Furnas">George Furnas</a></li>

<li><a href="Sheelagh_Carpendale" title="Sheelagh Carpendale">Sheelagh Carpendale</a></li>

<li><a href="Cynthia_Brewer" title="Cynthia Brewer">Cynthia Brewer</a></li>

<li><a href="Jock_D._Mackinlay" title="Jock D. Mackinlay">Jock D. Mackinlay</a></li>

<li><a href="Alan_MacEachren" title="Alan MacEachren">Alan MacEachren</a></li>

<li><a href="David_Goodsell" title="David Goodsell">David Goodsell</a></li>

<li><a href="Michael_Maltz" class="mw-redirect" title="Michael Maltz">Michael Maltz</a></li>

<li><a href="Leland_Wilkinson" title="Leland Wilkinson">Leland Wilkinson</a></li>

<li><a href="Alfred_Inselberg" title="Alfred Inselberg">Alfred Inselberg</a></li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Early 21st century</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<li><a href="Jeffrey_Heer" title="Jeffrey Heer">Jeffrey Heer</a></li>

<li><a href="Jessica_Hullman" title="Jessica Hullman">Jessica Hullman</a></li>

<li><a href="Daniel_A._Keim" title="Daniel A. Keim">Daniel A. Keim</a></li>

<li><a href="Gordon_Kindlmann" title="Gordon Kindlmann">Gordon Kindlmann</a></li>

<li><a href="Aaron_Koblin" title="Aaron Koblin">Aaron Koblin</a></li>

<li><a href="Christopher_R._Johnson" title="Christopher R. Johnson">Christopher R. Johnson</a></li>

<li><a href="Manuel_Lima" title="Manuel Lima">Manuel Lima</a></li>

<li><a href="David_McCandless" title="David McCandless">David McCandless</a></li>

<li><a href="Mauro_Martino" title="Mauro Martino">Mauro Martino</a></li>

<li><a href="John_Maeda" title="John Maeda">John Maeda</a></li>

<li><a href="Miriah_Meyer" title="Miriah Meyer">Miriah Meyer</a></li>

<li><a href="Tamara_Munzner" title="Tamara Munzner">Tamara Munzner</a></li>

<li><a href="Ade_Olufeko" class="mw-redirect" title="Ade Olufeko">Ade Olufeko</a></li>

<li><a href="Hanspeter_Pfister" title="Hanspeter Pfister">Hanspeter Pfister</a></li>

<li><a href="Hans_Rosling" title="Hans Rosling">Hans Rosling</a></li>

<li><a href="Claudio_Silva_(computer_scientist)" title="Claudio Silva (computer scientist)">Claudio Silva</a></li>

<li><a href="Moritz_Stefaner" title="Moritz Stefaner">Moritz Stefaner</a></li>

<li><a href="Fernanda_Vi%C3%A9gas" title="Fernanda Viégas">Fernanda Viégas</a></li>

<li><a href="Martin_M._Wattenberg" title="Martin M. Wattenberg">Martin Wattenberg</a></li>

<li><a href="Hadley_Wickham" title="Hadley Wickham">Hadley Wickham</a></li></ul>

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<ul><li><a href="Cartography" title="Cartography">Cartography</a></li>

<li><a href="Chartjunk" title="Chartjunk">Chartjunk</a></li>

<li><a href="Color_coding_in_data_visualization" class="mw-redirect" title="Color coding in data visualization">Color coding</a></li>

<li><a href="Computer_graphics" title="Computer graphics">Computer graphics</a>

<ul><li><a href="Computer_graphics_(computer_science)" title="Computer graphics (computer science)">in computer science</a></li></ul></li>

<li><a href="CPK_coloring" title="CPK coloring">CPK coloring</a></li>

<li><a href="Graph_drawing" title="Graph drawing">Graph drawing</a></li>

<li><a href="Graphic_design" title="Graphic design">Graphic design</a></li>

<li><a href="Graphic_organizer" title="Graphic organizer">Graphic organizer</a></li>

<li><a href="Imaging_science" class="mw-redirect" title="Imaging science">Imaging science</a></li>

<li><a href="Information_art" title="Information art">Information art</a></li>

<li><a href="Infographic" title="Infographic">Information graphics</a></li>

<li><a href="Information_science" title="Information science">Information science</a></li>

<li><a href="Misleading_graph" title="Misleading graph">Misleading graph</a></li>

<li><a href="Neuroimaging" title="Neuroimaging">Neuroimaging</a></li>

<li><a href="Patent_drawing" title="Patent drawing">Patent drawing</a></li>

<li><a href="Scientific_modelling" title="Scientific modelling">Scientific modelling</a></li>

<li><a href="Spatial_analysis" title="Spatial analysis">Spatial analysis</a></li>

<li><a href="Visual_perception" title="Visual perception">Visual perception</a></li>

<li><a href="Volume_cartography" title="Volume cartography">Volume cartography</a></li>

<li><a href="Volume_rendering" title="Volume rendering">Volume rendering</a></li></ul>

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