encoding

magnitude channel

Channel perceived as ordered, suited to ordinal and quantitative attributes.

canal de grandeur

aussi : canal de magnitude

Canal perçu comme ordonné, qui convient aux attributs ordinaux et quantitatifs.

Du plus au moins efficace chez Munzner : position alignée, position non alignée, longueur, angle, aire, profondeur, luminance et saturation, courbure et volume.

Classification

encoding

Attestation

French term: Common usage, not attested by a source
English definition: Munzner, Visualization Analysis and Design, 2014

Sources (2)

9 occurrences in the corpus

Cite this entry

Stable addresshttps://dataviz.adrientaudiere.com/en/term/magnitude-channel.html

ReferenceTaudière Adrien. 2026. magnitude channel. In Visualization Vocabulary, version 1.0.0. IdEst. https://dataviz.adrientaudiere.com/en/term/magnitude-channel.html

BibTeX

@incollection{taudiere2026-magnitude-channel,
  author    = {Taudière, Adrien},
  title     = {magnitude channel},
  booktitle = {Visualization Vocabulary},
  year      = {2026},
  version   = {1.0.0},
  publisher = {IdEst},
  url       = {https://dataviz.adrientaudiere.com/en/term/magnitude-channel.html},
  note      = {CC0 1.0}
}

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