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.

Jean Victor Bertin, Classical Landscape with Figures

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

Do You See the Forest, Yet Ignore the Trees? - von Borstel & Associates

Caregiver volunteers bring the Providence Mission to their communities

The Nature of Trees

Seeing the forest through the trees, Waterloo News

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

Lormes Goat-Girl, Sitting Beside a Stream in a Forest by Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot - Artvee

Jane Billinghurst on Her Favorite Things About Forests - AFAR