Beyond Bertin: Seeing the Forest despite the Trees

Visualization needs a new theory. Bertin's ideas about marks and retinal variables have provided a great starting point, but we are now seeing their limitations. We need to turn a new page and move beyond those cosy, familiar ideas, into new territory. A recent paper by Caroline Ziemkiewicz and myself makes an argument why, and provides some possible directions.

The Art of Seeing the Forest and the Trees, by Roo Benjamin

Ailanthus altissima

Cesare di Liborio - The Eye of Photography Magazine

May the Forest be With You

Cream White Wool Poncho Cape With Fringes and Small Shawl Pure

Forest of Fontainebleau by Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot - Artvee

The Noblest of Firs

Peder Mork Monsted: Winter (1914) – At Sunnyside – Where Truth and Beauty Meet

The Forest of Coubron by Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot - Artvee

Trees of knowledge

Is this the end of forests as we've known them?, Trees and forests