Visualization VocabularyDataviz vocabulary

encoding

shading

Continuous modulation of fill to suggest relief or intensity.

ombrage

Modulation continue du remplissage pour suggérer un relief ou une intensité.

Sur une carte, l'ombrage du relief se distingue de la valeur qui code une donnée : les confondre rend la carte illisible.

Classification

  • encoding

Attestation

Sources (74)

752 occurrences in the corpus; indexed by 7 books

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Cite this entry

Stable addresshttps://dataviz.adrientaudiere.com/en/term/shading.html

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

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

Page created on 2026-10-13. Text last changed on 2026-11-10. Numbers computed on 2026-10-22.