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.

A renowned environmentalist says we're understanding forests all wrong

Jane Billinghurst on Her Favorite Things About Forests - AFAR

Marcel Odenbach. You Can't See the Forest for the Trees. 2003

Peder Mork Monsted: A Spring Day in Sæby Forest (1916) – At Sunnyside – Where Truth and Beauty Meet

The trees were here first

A Lane through the Trees by Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot - Artvee

Jean-Victor Bertin, A river landscape with classical figures in a boat, a hilltop castle beyond (1805)

Cesare di Liborio - The Eye of Photography Magazine

Desert Update Summer 2013 by Anza-Borrego Foundation - Issuu

Is this the end of forests as we've known them?, Trees and forests

May the Forest be With You