One of my main focuses with this blog is to research the pairing of visualization with information and how it can be done more efficiently than it is being done now.
On this note, today I really started embarking on my discovery of visual structures that could provide the inner links to certain groupings of information. Dr. Stephen Wolfram has explored this to a great extent for mathematics and computer science in his book A New Kind of Science. So after I thumbed through the first few pages, I was directed towards the area of fractal geometry. I came across the 3-d mandelbrot set and found some interesting representations of its variations. Needless to say, the images I had in my head of seemingly sporadic 3-d structures come close to the way that these look.
By converting data sets and computational, systemized information sets into mathematical equations, we could find visual structures to represent them and show how they are interconnected. Since humans have a much better capacity to learn visually than with language, we would almost create a universal visual language that would represent more complex concepts. And as Dr. Wolfram poses, by putting information within the context of patterns and systems, maybe we will find that by looking at the fundamentals and the core of information that it isn't nearly as complex as we make it out to be.
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