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Venn Diagram for 7 Sets

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Re: Venn Diagram for 7 Sets

#21
post #18

I think this 6 set Venn Diagram is nice because I made it. :) http://162.243.213.31/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Ven3.png

How did you make this? It is nice. Why does the red line have a heart-shaped bounce/curve in the open white space instead of just being round?

Re: Venn Diagram for 7 Sets

#22
post #21
post #18

I think this 6 set Venn Diagram is nice because I made it. :) http://162.243.213.31/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Ven3.png

How did you make this? It is nice. Why does the red line have a heart-shaped bounce/curve in the open white space instead of just being round?

Looks like sinusoids in polar coordinates

Re: Venn Diagram for 7 Sets

#24
Here's a very rough interactive on more recently published 7-way and 11-way venn: https://observablehq.com/@thadk/venn (with clean-ish svg, cites)

This fork shows an older version with all the shapes turned on and filled with original colors: https://observablehq.com/d/4a5120e490fa9da4

Santiago Ortiz's venn was from 2013 (via archive.org) . I had forgotten I'd seen that, thanks for sharing.

Re: Venn Diagram for 7 Sets

#26
The source has a distinct face-melting vibe. Judging from leftover variables, seems like part of the original plan was to make a 7-way Venn diagram of these broad disciplines: "ART INTERFACE SCIENCE LANGUAGE TECHNOLOGY HUMANISM NETWORKS".

The possible resulting combinations also seem to have remained in the code, going from tame concepts like "illustration" and "games", down to gems like "folksonomy", "hypernarrative", "facebook" (??)

https://moebio.com/research/sevensets/Main.js

Re: Venn Diagram for 7 Sets

#27
post #9

Please don’t actually use these 5,6,7-way Venn diagrams for anything practical, they’re virtually useless and communicate nothing.

There is always the complicated wires puzzle from "Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes". Where a 5 way Venn diagram encodes what action you need to take for a given state.

https://bombmanual.com/web/index.html#ComplicatedWires

However you could make a good argument that having a complicated and confusing diagram is the point of that puzzle.

Re: Venn Diagram for 7 Sets

#28
Of course nice / "proper" / usable Venn diagrams use only round(-ish) shapes so they are easy to decipher. If you stick to this limitation, you can visualize up to 3 sets in 2D (using circles), 4 sets in 3D (using spheres), then it gets tricky...

Re: Venn Diagram for 7 Sets

#29
I wonder why when swipeing between the two sides of the disc it always appears convex from the currently viewed side, but flat when viewed edge on.

Anyone knows what could cause this?

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