visual-beautiful

Topics in the source

• Visual Beautiful
• Purpose
• When to use
• Inputs
• Modes
• The communication floor (always on, every mode)
• Style rules
• Procedure

CLEAR and BEAUTIFUL are two poles of one design space. CLEAR maximizes communication and clarity and tends toward sparsity. BEAUTIFUL maximizes communication and beauty and tends toward aesthetics. Communication is the shared floor and is never traded away. The win is a piece that is high on communication, clarity and beauty at once, so this skill always looks for the front between the poles, not just its own pole. Beauty here is not decoration on top of data. The strongest pieces are beautiful because the data is legible in them: colour breaks where the physics changes, marks that look like samples, motion that is the phenomenon. visual-intent handed off here. That is the default: a request that names neither pole gets a CLEAR version, a BEAUTIFUL version and one combined candidate. A request for beauty, art, display or exhibition narrows to this pole alone. A CLEAR figure exists and the user wants a striking companion of the same data. Not alone when the reader must read exact values or the output feeds a decision. Then CLEAR is required and a BEAUTIFUL piece may be a companion, never the sole output. Say so. Not at all when no renderer can draw the data shape honestly (step 3 fi

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