Open our visualization eyes, individualization: On Albrecht Dürer’s 1515 wood cut celestial charts

Abstract

The position that visualization is an intimate part of human existence and associated with the human species is advanced in this work: visualization abounds delimited by the space of individuality across human history. Visualization involves two complementary aspects of the uniqueness deemed of individuals: individualization reflects individuals’ capabilities and personalization reflects designs that seek compatibility with individuals’ capabilities. This has a number of implications upon the design and evaluation of visualizations. For one, a suitable visualization model that expresses individualization and personalization is needed: a brief survey of models is presented. For another, addressing intellectual uniqueness requires deep analysis and selective objective balance due to the potentially humongous number of unique ideas that support visualization design and viewer experiences. The Engineering Insightful Serviceable Visualizations model is selected as a guide for a comprehensive visualization evaluation of Albrecht Dürer’s 1515 celestial charts. Motivating this choice of visualization is its significance as the first notable and influential European star chart intended for scientific use and mass viewership, and as a blending of science and art. In addition, there is a lack of discussion concerning this particular visualization in the visualization literature. Concluding remarks suggest the significance of approaching visualization from this point-of-view.

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“…Researcher d’Auriol (2020) has used German Renaissance artist, Albrecht Dürer’s celestial charts as the subject matter for a visualization analysis and comparison of human beings’ historic, routine tendency to rely on their eyesight:The human visual system inclusive of our eyes, visual pathways, and visual cortex forms the primary external sense, which, for the vast majority estimated at more than 96.5% of people in 2015, 1 is an intimate part of daily human life. Vision together with such cognitive abilities as abstract thinking and symbolic behavior is relied upon for many things, including perception of the world, appreciation of arts and entertainment, and acquisition of understanding and knowledge.…”

“…Vision together with such cognitive abilities as abstract thinking and symbolic behavior is relied upon for many things, including perception of the world, appreciation of arts and entertainment, and acquisition of understanding and knowledge. (d’Auriol, 2020: 137)…”

“…By this argument, visualization abounds delimited by the space of individuality across human history. (d’Auriol, 2020: 139)…”

“…Visualization involves two complementary aspects of the uniqueness deemed of individuals: individualization reflects individuals’ capabilities and personalization reflects designs that seek compatibility with individuals’ capabilities”. (d’Auriol, 2020: 137) Thinking about individualizing a user’s web experience and personalizing design features based on the proclivities of the user is an idea perhaps a little ahead of its time. Most sites in 2020 have a one size fits all approach to reaching users.…”

“…. addressing intellectual uniqueness requires deep analysis and selective objective balance due to the potentially humongous number of unique ideas that support visualization design and viewer experiences” (d’Auriol, 2020: 137). An abundant clarity begins to be realized by the reader here: the precision with which the webmaster must create a site, considering and estimating for the specificity of the user’s needs, desires, skills, preferences, tastes, abilities, education, and many more facets of the user, is nearly inestimable.…”