[HN Gopher] A New Perspective on Drawing Venn Diagrams for Data ...
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       A New Perspective on Drawing Venn Diagrams for Data Visualization
        
       Author : IdealeZahlen
       Score  : 14 points
       Date   : 2026-02-18 14:34 UTC (4 days ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (arxiv.org)
 (TXT) w3m dump (arxiv.org)
        
       | Terretta wrote:
       | At least the paper is transparent it's a twist on Edwards
       | cogwheel.
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       | I've encountered these in the wild, so interesting to see what's
       | generating them.
        
       | secret-noun wrote:
       | These are hard to read if you have no intuition about what these
       | cog shapes look like even without overlapping. But, everyone get
       | ellipses.
        
         | recursivecaveat wrote:
         | Yeah it doesn't really work in either direction. If I look at a
         | spot its hard to tell which blobs its a part of. If I look at a
         | blob its hard to find all the spots it contains. (imagining of
         | course them not all being labeled) n=4 is already pushing it
         | for venn diagrams, you should probably just have a table above
         | that point.
        
       | ludicrousdispla wrote:
       | Nice paper, the last two figures remind me of Hierarchical Edge
       | Bundles (2006) and the Sunflower Visual Metaphor (1999) which
       | have similar goals.
       | 
       | https://aviz.fr/wiki/uploads/Teaching2014/bundles_infovis.pd...
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       | https://ics.uci.edu/~kobsa/courses/ICS280/notes/papers/Rose-...
        
       | xnx wrote:
       | Impressive but useless. None of there are any more
       | intelligible/useful than circles after 3.
        
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