STEVEN BREAUX: SOLO Graph Drawings
From my journal
These short-hand conveyors of information communicate, within their designated realm, information that the analyzers of the data seem to be capable of interpreting only in a specialized manner. The purveyors of the diagram do not regard the visual-ness of the information, the aesthetics of the diagram, to any great degree except to the degree that the aesthetics assist in the conveyance of the specific information.