Cinematic Data Visualization

Locate & Track

where a thing is, and where it is going11

Radar sweepPPI scope · plan-position indicatorrotating beam paints contacts that decay

Wireframe terrain scansurface scan · sensor drapea mesh drapes over relief as the sensor passes

Topographic fieldisoline · contour mapnested contours breathe as the field updates

Orbital-mechanics plotconic arcs and a burn window closing

Trajectory arcpredictive path · lead indicatorprojected path with an impact bracket

Flow mapconnection map · great-circle arcdirected arcs carry particles between nodes

Choroplethterritory controlregions shift allegiance by fill

Transit schematicroute diagramoctilinear network, no true geography

Dot-density swarmpopulation as scattered unit marks

Pin mapmarker dropa located thing, and nothing else

MOTION TRACKERCONTACTS 4

K-11047°444036322824201612M

K-04312°312825221916131007M

U-27188°625650443832262014M

K-09265°242220181614121008M

SWEEP 2.8 s0–70 M

Blip trackcontact list · motion trackerdiscrete returns with bearing and closing range

Hex-bin overlayhoneycomb density · tactical griddensity binned to a tessellating grid

Cartogramvalue-weighted map · mosaic distortionterritory resized by what it holds

Identify & Match

is this the one7

Bounding-box detectionboxes latch, label and release

CANDIDATE RACK15 → 1

MATCH CONFIRMED · CAND 08

Candidate rackface-match grida wall of possibles culled to one

MATCH CONFIDENCESUBJ 4471-K

0123456789012345678907%

SEARCHINGIDENTITY LOCKEDTHRESHOLD 95

LOCK

Match-percentage lockconfidence bara number climbing to certainty

Optic-nerve scaniris capture · baseline testthe eye rendered as terrain, not as a lens

SEQUENCE READ · GL-4471ATGC

AGTCATTCAGGTGTCAGCCTGTCACAGTTGGGACTCTCTAAGACCGCAATGGGTGATCACAGTCATTCAGGTGTCAGCCTGTCACAGTTGGGACTC

READ

BP 1 204 → 1 224Q39

Sequence readoutDNA · genome ladderbase pairs streaming past a fixed cursor

Waveform matchspectrogram · voiceprinttwo traces sliding into phase

ID 4471-K

SHA 0x9F2C A104 E7B1

PERSONNEL RECORD04-Δ

CHASTAIN, M.

ORIGINZURICH · CH

D.O.B.12 · 04 · 79

HEIGHT1.74 m · 68 kg

STATUSACTIVE — FIELD

CLEARANCE

LAST SEEN41.902 N 12.496 E

PRINT9F·2C·A1·04

VERIFIED

Dossier cardpersonnel recorda person compressed to a rectangle

Measure & Monitor

a value against a line that matters10

Angular gauge clusterdial bankneedles against a swept arc

CRIME COEFFICIENT062118176241311338361361000

NON-LETHAL · PARALYZERLETHAL · ELIMINATOR

Threshold barbullet grapha value crossing a line that has consequences

Vital-signs multi-tracestacked traces sweeping right

Sparkline railmicro-graph stackthe most-borrowed real dataviz device in FUI

TIME TO CONTACTTERMINAL

T−00:00:0543210.9876543210

Countdown timerthe only readout the audience always parses

Level meterresource tanka quantity that can run out

Error bartolerance bandthe admission of uncertainty

Control chartdrift monitorin-spec until it isn’t

Battle-damage digital twinthe model bruises where the object did

DECRYPTING / AES-256 KEYSPACE000014034041043043068082091100100%

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{%░!!^&=░?}▒!▓|&<{?/]+\!\=*@:%}]@▒!*><+[\*|▒░>/%]
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KEYSPACE 0x7F3A / SECTOR 41 / PLAINTEXT RECOVERED

PLAINTEXT RECOVERED

Progress crawldecryption barthe most abused type in the catalogue

Candlestick tapeOHLC bar · market tapeprice prints right to left, body and wick

Structure & Anatomy

how a thing is put together8

Exploded viewparts retreat along their assembly axes

Molecular latticestructure as nodes held at fixed distance

Treemapspace-filling partitionarea encodes size — a genuine encoding

Dendrogramhierarchy tree · org chartauthority drawn as depth

Node-link graphconspiracy boardwho touches whom

turntable · 6.0 s / rev

analysing

Rotating 3D orbitturntablenamed by Coleran as the field’s worst trope

Cutaway elevationorthographic sectionthe skin removed, the plan kept

Volumetric slice stacktomographic scana solid read one plane at a time

Sunburst hierarchymulti-level donut · radial partitiona system broken down ring by ring

Chord matrixcomms web · traffic analysiswho is talking to whom, and how much

Volumetric point cloud3D scatter · returns tanknear returns bright, far ones sink

Compare & Distribute

more, less, and how spread7

Sankey flowwaterfall · alluvialquantity conserved across a branch

Radar polygonspider · star plotperceptually weak, visually complex — the FUI default

Heat-map grida grid sorted by feel, not by value

Bar rackcolumn chartrare in FUI — and where it does appear, it is a set-build

Scatter cloudcluster plotpoints finding their groups

Histogramdistribution curveshape of the spread

Small-multiples walltile gridone chart repeated until it is a texture

Unit gridwaffle chart · strength boardone mark per unit, counted down

Attrition funneltriage stages · narrowing cohorta population lost stage by stage

Parallel coordinatesprofile compare · multivariate tracemany subjects, one axis per trait

Simulate & Predict

states that have not happened7

Deterministic-state scrubpast and future as one addressable strip

Probability fanbranch cone · forecast conecertainty decaying with distance

Branching timelinemultiverse monitora trunk, and the branches being pruned

Precognition scrubgestural scrubthe gesture is the visualization

Sensory-layer scrubbraindanceone memory, separable into channels

HIGHER-DIMENSIONAL UNFOLD

F 06F 16

DECLARED VOLUME HELD · SOLID NOT HELD

Higher-dimensional unfolda solid that will not stay a solid

Simulation-vs-actual overlaythe model, and the world disagreeing with it

Mission scheduleGantt · phased operationphases against a clock, with a now line

Record & Retrieve

the archive, and getting back into it7

Physical card archivemicrofiche · punch recordretrieval as manual labour

MU/TH/UR 6000 · TTY1SESSION 04:12

$ nmap -sV -p22,80,443 10.4.0.0/24 -oG -

Starting Nmap 7.94 ( https://nmap.org )

Host: 10.4.0.17 () Status: Up

Host: 10.4.0.17 () Ports: 22/open/tcp//ssh//

Host: 10.4.0.23 () Ports: 80/open/tcp//http//

Host: 10.4.0.41 () Ports: 443/filtered/tcp///

Nmap done: 256 addresses (3 up) in 6.28s

$ ssh -i ~/.ssh/id_ed25519 root@ares

Warning: Permanently added ED25519 host key.

Last login: Tue Jun 19 04:12:07 2021

root@ares:~# uname -sr

Linux 5.15.0-91-generic

root@ares:~# find /var/log -mmin -30 -type f

/var/log/auth.log

/var/log/nginx/access.log

root@ares:~# tail -n3 /var/log/auth.log

04:11:52 ares sshd[2211]: Accepted publickey

04:12:07 ares sshd[2214]: session opened

04:12:09 ares sudo: root : TTY=pts/0 PWD=/root

root@ares:~# sha256sum -c manifest.sha256

denabase.idx: OK

denabase.dat: FAILED

$ nmap -sV -p22,80,443 10.4.0.0/24 -oG -

Starting Nmap 7.94 ( https://nmap.org )

Host: 10.4.0.17 () Status: Up

Host: 10.4.0.17 () Ports: 22/open/tcp//ssh//

Host: 10.4.0.23 () Ports: 80/open/tcp//http//

Host: 10.4.0.41 () Ports: 443/filtered/tcp///

Nmap done: 256 addresses (3 up) in 6.28s

$ ssh -i ~/.ssh/id_ed25519 root@ares

Warning: Permanently added ED25519 host key.

Last login: Tue Jun 19 04:12:07 2021

root@ares:~# uname -sr

Linux 5.15.0-91-generic

root@ares:~# find /var/log -mmin -30 -type f

/var/log/auth.log

/var/log/nginx/access.log

root@ares:~# tail -n3 /var/log/auth.log

04:11:52 ares sshd[2211]: Accepted publickey

04:12:07 ares sshd[2214]: session opened

04:12:09 ares sudo: root : TTY=pts/0 PWD=/root

root@ares:~# sha256sum -c manifest.sha256

denabase.idx: OK

denabase.dat: FAILED

root@ares:~# openssl dgst -sha256 denabase.dat

Terminal scrollbackcommand logtext that is actually executable

Spatial file browser3D file managerdirectory height encodes size — a real grammar

Photo-navigation“enhance”cinema’s most durable interaction paradigm

CONSIGNMENT LEDGER / POOL 4SCANNED04120433045104780490051105360559057405980611/ 4118

REFCONSIGNMENTSECTQTYAUTHSTATUS

RG-7742AGGREGATE, UNSPECIFIEDSEC-040418C/4WITHHELD

RG-7743SEE ANNEX 7 - NOT HELDSEC-041120C/4WITHHELD

RG-7751ITEM DESCRIPTION OMITTEDSEC-110007D/1SEALED

RG-7758AS PER SCHEDULE BSEC-112244C/4WITHHELD

RG-7760CONTENTS: PER MANIFESTSEC-020031B/7WITHHELD

RG-7764REFER ORIGINATING DEPTSEC-020902C/4PENDING

RG-7771NO DESCRIPTION ON FILESEC-190164D/1WITHHELD

RG-7772SUBJECT TO REVIEWSEC-193308C/4SEALED

RG-7780CATEGORY: OTHERSEC-040075B/7WITHHELD

RG-7788DETAIL WITHHELD s.31(1)(a)SEC-311017D/1WITHHELD

RG-7791SEE ATTACHED (MISSING)SEC-310446C/4N/A

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Ledger tablemanifest · data poolbureaucracy rendered legible

Semiotic icon standardpictogram systema published grammar, not a per-film palette

Wayfinding signifierhazard markinga world object doing UI work

Atmosphere

encodes nothing — and is most of the screen7

Fuidget fieldgreebles · nurniesNoessel’s term — detail that encodes nothing

Scan linerefresh sweepthe display admitting it is a display

Idle breathing loopkeeps a screen alive between plot beats

Degradation layerscreen burn · ghostingfidelity as biography

Unreadable glyph blockconstructed scriptmeaning intuited without translation

Reticle furniturebrackets that track nothing

SELF-TESTSEQ 0x1F

POWER-ON SELF TEST ............... OK

CORE A0 A1 A2 A3 ................ 4/4

MEMORY PARITY SWEEP ............ PASS

BUS ARBITER 12.8 GT/S ............ OK

IMU GYRO / ACCEL / MAG .......... CAL

OPTIC APERTURE STEP ............ 0.41

UPLINK HANDSHAKE ............... SYNC

STAGE 2 KERNEL IMAGE ........... LOAD

Boot crawlPOST sequencethe machine introducing itself

Concept & Channel

where the carrier is the message7

Deliberation displayquorum · split decisionrendering a machine disagreeing with itself

Agent affect stateemoticon facesystem status carried by a face

Sonification cuelock tone · auditory displaythe weld that makes a graphic legible

Meta-perception filtersensory overlaythe frame becomes the character’s eye

Acoustic substratelevitated matterphysical particles as the display medium

Scale ladderorders of magnitudethe concept is the zoom, not the readout

TC 01:14:22:000408121620

MARS · NORTHERN HEMISPHERE

ACIDALIA PLANITIA

SOL 18 · 07:41:0012345 LMST

Non-diegetic locatortitle card · slateinformation for the audience only

Chatter cloudword cloud · intercept frequencylanguage sized by how often it recurs