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Visualization Synthesis System

The Kestrel Institute Visualization Synthesis system:

automatically generates different kinds of tables and diagrams for displaying electronic data
developed by Kestrel Institute with support from AFHRL and NOSC
based on a formal theory of visual display of relational data

The Visualization Synthesis System uses transformational technology:

to remove redundancy in a display
to give different views of the data
for information preserving restructuring performed at the abstract relational level (e.g. set to characteristic function)
for primitive visual representations for basic relationships (e.g. adjacency and connecting lines represent pairing; containment for sets; length for quantity) composed to represent complex relationships

Examples of applications of the Visualization Synthesis System:

generating displays of technical data specialized for different screen geometries and color capabilities
dependency graphs and tables of interesting relationships in large software systems of different kinds and at different levels

Below is a tree of several different table visualizations of the same data, using different transformations to generate each display.