Glyph (data visualization)

In the context of data visualization, a glyph is any marker, such as an arrow or similar marking, used to specify part of a visualization.

These visual objects are collectively called a glyph.

In the context of data visualization, a glyph is the visual representation of a piece of data where the attributes of a graphical entity are dictated by one or more attributes of a data record.Glyph construction can be a complex process when there are many dimensions to be represented in the visualization.

Maguire et al proposed a taxonomy based approach to glyph-design that uses a tree to guide the visual encodings used to representation various data items.

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Four-dimensional data visualization, using VisIt : in three-dimensional phase space a fourth scalar variable is visualized by use of coloured glyphs.