User talk:Mdd/Visualization

The design of a new general article about visualisation

I started redesigning a new general article about visualisation.

The merger in jan 2008 was not effective

I recently discovered that this was also the intention with the last merger in Jan 2008. I however believe that this merger was not effective.

Around 18 jan 2008 the Visualization (computer graphics) article has become the general article about different kinds of visualization. Before that time there where six different articles:

1. Visualization (computer graphics) (11 jan 2008)
2. Scientific visualization (11 jan 2008)
3. Knowledge visualization (11 jan 2008)
4. Product visualization (11 jan 2008)
5. Educational visualization (11 jan 2008)
6. Visual Analytics (11 jan 2008)

These six articles have been merged to the one Visualization (computer graphics) article by User:Teryx on 14 January 2008, see his changes and his arguments. This merger was ment to created, what I call, one general article about visualisation.

Now I believe the intention here was good, but the merger itself was not effective. For the following reasons:

1. ...

-- Mdd (talk) 13:38, 27 June 2008 (UTC)

Definitions of visualisation

Origins of the ideas around visualisation

• [I]t is plain that distance is in its own nature imperceptible, and yet it is perceived by sight. It remains, therefore, that it be brought into view by means of some other IDEA that is itself immediately perceived in the act of VISION.
  • George Berkeley. An Essay Towards a New Theory of Vision, 1709. Section 11.

• Now, it being already shown that distance is suggested to the mind by the mediation of some other IDEA which is itself perceived in the act of seeing, it remains that we inquire what IDEAS or SENSATIONS there be that attend VISION...
  • George Berkeley. An Essay Towards a New Theory of Vision, 1709. Section 16.

Early definitions of visualisation, late 19th century

• [T]he object of the present paper is to offer a description and estimation of the sensationalist psychology in its first presentation by Hobbes, its development by Locke and Berkeley, and its culmination in the scepticism of Hume; in which an attempt will be made (1) to maintain that the predominating element in the thought of these men was Visualization, and (2) on the basis of this fact to offer a new criticism of the psychology of Sensationalism.
  • Alexander Fraser, B.A. "Visualization as a chief source of the psychology of Hobbes, Locke, Berkeley and Hume." The American Journal of Psychology 4.2 (1891): 230-247. (see also here)
  • Article according to philpapers.org by Alexander Stewart Fraser

• The visual image is not the direct impression of the object, but the memory of the impression more or less vague according to the varying powers of visualization ; and in a lover of the arts such as Dante was, visualization is largely determined...
  • The Nation. Vol. 58-59 (1894), p. 82

• The process of mind which I have termed “ visualization ” is curiously exemplified in an incident which I will give as nearly as possible in the language of the narrator.
  • W.M. Smyth, "Is the inventive faculty a myth." Factory and Industrial Management. Vol. 9, (1895), p. 854
  • Quotes by the English born, American engineer, William Henry Smyth (1855—1940), who also wrote "Social universals," 1921.

-- Mdd (talk) 12:42, 13 June 2017 (UTC)