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retinal variable

Visual variable carried by the mark itself rather than by its location.

variable rétinienne

Variable visuelle portée par la marque elle-même plutôt que par sa place.

Terme de Bertin. Börner et al. 2019 (tab. 1) les rangent en forme (taille, forme, rotation, courbure, angle, fermeture), couleur (valeur, teinte, saturation), texture (espacement, granularité, patron, orientation, gradient), optique (flou, transparence, ombrage, profondeur stéréoscopique) et mouvement (vitesse, vélocité, rythme).

Classification

encoding

Attestation

French term: Bertin, Sémiologie graphique, 1967
English definition: Data visualization literacy: Definitions, conceptual frameworks, exercises, and assessm...

Sources (6)

41 occurrences in the corpus; indexed by 1 book

Cite this entry

Stable addresshttps://dataviz.adrientaudiere.com/en/term/retinal-variable.html

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

BibTeX

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

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