art & entertainment

media & Internet

draft, design, hypothesis

visualization, illustration

pattern, prescription, plan

mould

notional

actual

interpretive

empirical

deontic

axiomatic

axiologic (valuing)

amusement

exploration

research

application

pragmatics

illusionary

fictitious

heuristic

hypothetic

descriptive

phenomenological

explicative

predictive

prescriptive

didactic

normative

ideal

graphic

drawings

paintings

photographies

movies

sketch sheets

Leonardo: drawings of devices

design

descriptive world models:

Egyptians, Greeks, Copernicus

graphic visualization of functions/ formulas

drawings of descriptions

extreme reduction of facts

graphic statics, nomography

X-ray images

ultrasound images

drawings of explanation

Leonardo: blown-up drawing

Descartes: explanations for physical and physiological phenomena

block diagrams

illustrated books for instruction (Fig. 56)

template

patterns for women to trace, for embroideries and lace

pattern books on stucco work and furniture

anatomical pattern books

3-D

mock-ups

scenery

replicas

architectural models

Galileo, Newton, Watt, Maxwell: tinkering

prototypes

working models

visualizing a physical theory or law

visualizing in mathematics, medicine, chemistry and economy

visual instruction: planetarium

utopias: 3-D models

Comenius

„Realschule“: 3-D model collections

geometrical bodies

stencil

mould

hollow forms

printing forms

other

literature

theatre

utopia

television

cyberspace

theories:

hypotheses

CAD

virtual prototyping

„scientific visualization“:

compressed representation

explanation, interpretation:

esotericism, myths, conspiracy theories

paragon:

little figures

idols

abstraction, idealization:

pure cases

ideal type