encoding
curvature
Degree of bending of a line mark encoding a magnitude.
courbure
Degré d'incurvation d'une marque linéaire codant une grandeur.
Réservée aux marques de type ligne et peu précise : deux ou trois niveaux seulement se distinguent selon Munzner, à égalité avec le volume.
Classification
- encoding
Attestation
- French term: Insee, Guide de sémiologie graphique, édition 2017↗
- English definition: Semiology of graphics: diagrams, networks, maps
Sources (48)
312 occurrences in the corpus; indexed by 3 books
Show the 48 sources
- Applied Multivariate Statistics in R
- Atlas of knowledge: anyone can map
- Beautiful evidence
- Better data visualizations: a guide for scholars, researchers, and wonks
- Building Science Graphics: An Illustrated Guide to Communicating Science through Diagra...
- Cartography: thematic map design
- Ciccione & Dehaene, The Neural Bases of Graphical Perception: A Novel Instance of Cultural Recycling?, Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 2026↗
- Computational statistics in data science
- Data Visualisation Guide, data.europa.eu
- Data visualization handbook
- Data visualization literacy: Definitions, conceptual frameworks, exercises, and assessm...
- Data visualization: a practical introduction
- Dehaene, “The Perception of Graphics: A New Instance of Neuronal Recycling”, lecture course at the Collège de France, 2025 (in French)↗
- Design for information: an introduction to the histories, theories, and best practices ...
- Effective data storytelling: how to drive change with data, narrative, and visuals
- Effective data visualization: the right chart for the right data
- Exploratory Data Analysis: Descriptive Analysis, Visualization, and Dashboard Design (w...
- French Wikipedia↗
- Fundamentals of computer graphics
- Graphic presentation
- Graphical Perception: Theory, Experimentation, and Application to the Development of Gr...
- Grosjean & Engels, Science des données biologiques I-III (University of Mons)
- Information graphics
- Information theory tools for visualization
- Insee, Guide de sémiologie graphique, édition 2017↗
- Interactive data visualization: foundations, techniques, and applications
- Les fondamentaux de la visualisation de données
- pudding.cool↗
- QCBS R Workshop Series, French version (Quebec Centre for Biodiversity Science)
- Rakotomalala, statistics course notes (Université Lyon 2)
- Semiologie graphique: les diagrammes, les réseaux, les cartes.
- Semiology of graphics: diagrams, networks, maps
- Storytelling with data: let's practice!
- The book of circles: visualizing spheres of knowledge
- The book of trees: visualizing branches of knowledge
- The elements of graphing data
- The elements of typographic style
- The functional art: an introduction to information graphics and visualization
- The grammar of graphics
- The Oxford Handbook of Empirical Aesthetics
- Thematic Cartography and Geovisualization
- Visual strategies for biological data
- Visualization Analysis and Design
- Visualization of Time-Oriented Data
- Visualizing with text
- wiki.wordsoftype.com
- Wikipedia in English↗
- Wilke, Fundamentals of Data Visualization, O'Reilly, 2019
Cite this entry
Stable addresshttps://dataviz.adrientaudiere.com/en/term/curvature-encoding.html
ReferenceTaudière Adrien. 2026. curvature. In Visualization Vocabulary, version 1.0.0. IdEst. https://dataviz.adrientaudiere.com/en/term/curvature-encoding.html
BibTeX
@incollection{taudiere2026-curvature-encoding,
author = {Taudière, Adrien},
title = {curvature},
booktitle = {Visualization Vocabulary},
year = {2026},
version = {1.0.0},
publisher = {IdEst},
url = {https://dataviz.adrientaudiere.com/en/term/curvature-encoding.html},
note = {CC0 1.0}
}Page created on 2026-10-13. Text last changed on 2026-11-10. Numbers computed on 2026-10-22.