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The plane is the mainstay of all graphic representation. It is so familiar that its properties seem self-evident, but the most familiar things are often the most poorly understood. The plane is homogeneous and has two dimensions. The visual consequences of these properties must be fully explored.
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Graphic representation constitutes one of the basic sign-systems conceived by the human mind for the purposes of storing, understanding, and communicating essential information. As a "language" for the eye, graphics benefits from the ubiquitous properties of visual perception. As a monosemic system, it forms the rational part of the world of images.
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[The special properties of visual perception of data]... is the visual means of resolving logical problems.
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I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.
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Jacques Bertin
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Born:
July 27, 1918
Died:
May 3, 2010
(aged 91)
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