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From: craig@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca (Craig Hubley)
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Subject: Re: visual presentation of quantitative info?
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Date: 14 Oct 89 14:05:44 GMT
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I didn't see the original poster, and it's from his/her university,
so it might have been mentioned already, but:

J. Bertin, "Semiology of Graphics", The U of Wisconsin Press, 1983,
translated by William J. Berg.

This French text is one of the most important references.  The translation
can be hard to read, but the pictorial material makes it understandable.
Someone has already used this to build a presentation engine:

"Applying a Theory of Graphical Presentation to the Graphic Design
 of User Interfaces", Jock MacKinlay, Xerox PARC, in Proceedings of
the ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium on User Interface Software (UIST'88),
Banff, Alberta, Canada, Octobe 17-19, 1988.

Craig Hubley
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