Abstract
Networks are extremely dynamic entities, yet the ways we conventionally visualize them seem to not being able to convey this dynamism. Bret Victor, in his remarkable conference entitled Stop drawing dead fish (Bret 2012), argues that the computer is a different creative medium, suited for dynamic representation and simulation, in which “[…] everything we draw should be alive by the default.” In this text, I’ll first explain why and how all networks are dynamic (Sect. 8.1) and then present different techniques I’ve been exploring in my own research and work to visualize networks as the dynamic and, to some extent, living organisms they are (Sect. 8.2). Paraphrasing Bret Victor: stop drawing dead networks!
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Ortiz, S. (2015). Living Networks. In: Bihanic, D. (eds) New Challenges for Data Design. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-6596-5_8
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