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okay so here's a weird question. scott mccloud's "big triangle"— wordsonplay.com/2009/10/the-bi is there a general term for this kind of thing? a space with extremes where items in the space are annotated with illustrations/representations whose position in the space corresponds to the extent to which the properties at the extremes describe them?

Words On PlayThe Big TriangleI'm currently preparating a lecture for a class on "Sensation" aesthetics for game design (i.e. the ways in which games evoke sense-pleasure through images, music and movement). In doing so I've been thinking about Scott McCloud's Big Triangle. For those unfamiliar with it (and if this is you, you should go read Understanding Comics right…
Allison Parrish

e.g., eadweard muybridge photo illustrations (if you unwrapped them into a single line) eadweardmuybridge.co.uk/ would be a one-dimensional example of this (where the dimension represents time); t-sne visualizations would be another example (where the dimensions don't have a set meaning) lvdmaaten.github.io/tsne/ maybe even the periodic table of elements would qualify en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Periodic (though in that case the "representations" are just the names of the elements)

www.eadweardmuybridge.co.ukEadweard Muybridge CollectionsEadweard Muybridge Collection. An online research resource bringing together information on the international collections of Eadweard Muybridge's work in an historical and academic context.

(the unifying characteristic here being that with any of these methods you could—at least conceptually—"interpolate" between two items in the space in order to invent/discover a new item at the point between them)

oh okay this is this is helpful (on the topic of visualization, not on the topic of critical writing on animorphs) still not exactly what I'm looking for though, oh well onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/ab

@ansate ha, nice! actually what I'm looking for is the earliest known example of an illustration showing intermediate stages of transformation from one thing to another (when that transformation *isn't* time based, a la en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_of) so really only the *covers* of animorphs are of particular interest at this point

en.wikipedia.orgMarch of Progress - Wikipedia

@aparrish ah ha! These things tie together better with that context

@ansate hahaha there is some kind of logic to my intellectual careenings, I assure you! or at least I hope there is