Graphic elements

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basic graphic structures: BitmapData, ColorList, ColorScale

Among graphic elements colors are the most important, because they are useful to represent quantities. Some visualizators such a SimpleMap use colors to represent values. In many cases it’s optional. Colors help also to element differentiation. It´s easy to create a ColorList or a ColorScale for a NumberList.

It may seems that graphic structures, processes and visualizations are strongly related with “serious“ data processes needs. But there is an ancient tradition of using image as a rich container of data, not only representational information. Take for instance the imagery produced by medical technology or satellite photography that are used for geographica, geological and astronomical analyses. Images are tables of numbers! With the NumberTableToBitmapData and BitmapDataToNumberTable operators one and other are equivalent, and you can “translate” one into the other in order to change the paradimatical approach.