TY - BOOK AU - Lima,Manuel TI - Visual complexity: mapping patterns of information SN - 9781568989365 : AV - Q223 .L55 2011 PY - 2011/// CY - New York PB - Princeton Architectural Press KW - Communication in science KW - Graphic methods KW - Visual communication N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. 258-262) and index; Foreword / Lev Manovich -- The tree of life. Sacred trees ; Trees of knowledge ; The end of an era -- From trees to networks. Planning a city ; Neural landscape ; Ubiquitous datasphere ; Social collaboration ; Classifying information ; Ordering nature ; Network thinking -- Decoding networks. The birth of network science ; Psychological geography ; The cartography of networks ; Principles of network visualization -- Infinite interconnectedness. Blogosphere ; Citations ; Del.icio.us ; Donations ; Email ; Internet ; Literature ; Music ; News ; Proteins ; Terrorism ; Trajectories ; Twitter ; Wikipedia -- The syntax of a new language. Arc diagram ; Area grouping ; Centralized burst ; Centralized ring ; Circled globe ; Circular ties ; Elliptical implosion ; Flow chart ; Organic rhizome ; Radial convergence ; Radial implosion ; Ramifications ; Scaling circles ; Segmented radial convergence ; Sphere -- Complex beauty. Holism ; Complexity encoding ; Ordered complexity ; Networkism -- Looking a ahead. Seeing the world in data / Nathan Yau ; The fall and rise of ambient visualization / Andrew Vande Moere ; Cybernetics revisited : toward a collective intelligence / Christopher Kirwan ; Reflexive ecologies : visualizing priorities / David McConville. ER -