Markers are best used when you have only a few data points to display, while stacked lines may not display as distinctly as 2-dimensional lines as they would as 3-dimensional lines or areas.
The researchers point to "displays that use magnetic fields to rapidly create shapes out of ferromagnetic fluid," and another class of displays that "levitate solid objects in a field of overlaid ultrasonic or magnetic waves".
Designed as an exact digital replica of the layout created in a program like Adobe InDesign, which was employed, the point is to display precisely the same everywhere, as if one were looking at a printed page.
At the museum, curators pointed to displays showing how, at the Manassas Park Elementary School, Manassas, Va., explanatory posters on successive floors of the building echo the layers of the school forest outside the windows — from the forest floor to the understory and on up through the canopy.
For Lumus, the product roadmap largely points to displays with wider field-of-views and increasingly smaller form factors. "We're tirelessly trying to obsolete our own technology," Grobman said.
And that, of course, is the point: you want to display data in a way that is most useful to making sense of what is going on without misleading the observer.
There are also cartoons that serve not just to make a political point but also to display the academic training and sheer artistry of the draftsman, like Arthur Szyk's "Palestine Restricted" (1944).
At one point, Bell twirled to display the gown to its full effect, while Shepard got in the fun, too. .
