September 3, 2012
Extreme Venn diagrams
That’s a five-set Venn diagram, invented in 1975. Some mathematicians have just worked out how to do an 11-set one.
These are pretty, and a computational and mathematical achievement, but unfortunately they don’t have any of the properties that make Venn diagrams a marginally-useful visualization method. (via)
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With a bit of cleverness and flexibility, these could be modified to show *areas* proportional to the number of members of every one of the 31 classes
12 years ago
Well, it’s possible if you allow enough distortion, but you’d need a lot of distortion given how small some of the two-set intersections are.
12 years ago
Looks like the kind of computational and mathematical achievements I doodle in meetings every day.
12 years ago