Jacques Bertin: Component

Jacques Bertin was French geographer and cartographer. Explore interesting quotes on component.

Jacques Bertin: 40 quotes1 like

“There are as many types of questions as components in the information.”

Source: Semiology of graphics (1967/83), p. 10

“When the correspondences on the plane can be established between:
- all the divisions of one component
- and all the divisions of another component, the construction is a DIAGRAM.”

Source: Semiology of graphics (1967/83), p. 50

“A graphic is a diagram when correspondences on the plane can be established among all elements of another component.”

Source: Semiology of graphics (1967/83), p. 193

“The problem that still remains to be solved is that of the orderable matrix, that needs the use of imagination… When the two components of a data table are orderable, the normal construction is the orderable matrix. Its permutations show the analogy and the complementary nature that exist between the algorithmic treatments and the graphical treatments.”

About the traditionally low interest in theory of graphics
Interview with Jacques Bertin (2003)