<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Stefan,<div><br></div><div>If you are after excellent visual style guides, I would highly recommend reading Edward Tufte. He has some fantastic books on visualisation of data.</div><div><br></div><div>Regards,</div><div><br></div><div>George</div><div><br><div><div>On 15 Dec 2008, at 20:04, Tobias Oetiker wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>Hi Stefan,<br><br>cool new stuff should be discused on rrd-developers ...<br><br>are you planning on implementing something like this ?<br><br>Today Stefan Parvu wrote:<br><br><blockquote type="cite">Morning,<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Not sure if this is the correct place to ask but here are some comments<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">after long talks with Dr. Neil Gunther, <a href="http://www.perfdynamics.com/">http://www.perfdynamics.com/</a><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">about how can we better see and display metrics from different systems.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">2D might be enough for majority of cases but not good enough. Adding<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">3D and 4D realism to our collected data we could better see and<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">understand our workloads.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Has anyone considered looking into:<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> - Barycentric Visualizer <a href="http://www.perfdynamics.com/Tools/tools.html">http://www.perfdynamics.com/Tools/tools.html</a><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> - Barry 3D, 4D <a href="http://www.perfdynamics.com/Papers/barry007.pdf">http://www.perfdynamics.com/Papers/barry007.pdf</a><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> <a href="http://www.perfdynamics.com/cmg.html#tth_sEc1">http://www.perfdynamics.com/cmg.html#tth_sEc1</a><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">An important addition to RRDtool would be to bring multidimensional<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">behavior to our collected data using BarryN plotting. This would mean<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">to be possible to have rrdtool to plot directly BarryN graphs (animated gif, or simple a mov etc)<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Comments ?<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Thanks,<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">stefan<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Stefan Parvu<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Blog: <a href="http://stefanparvu.blogspot.com">http://stefanparvu.blogspot.com</a><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">_______________________________________________<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">rrd-users mailing list<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><a href="mailto:rrd-users@lists.oetiker.ch">rrd-users@lists.oetiker.ch</a><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><a href="https://lists.oetiker.ch/cgi-bin/listinfo/rrd-users">https://lists.oetiker.ch/cgi-bin/listinfo/rrd-users</a><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><br>-- <br>Tobi Oetiker, OETIKER+PARTNER AG, Aarweg 15 CH-4600 Olten, Switzerland<br><a href="http://it.oetiker.ch">http://it.oetiker.ch</a> <a href="mailto:tobi@oetiker.ch">tobi@oetiker.ch</a> ++41 62 775 9902 / sb: -9900<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>rrd-developers mailing list<br><a href="mailto:rrd-developers@lists.oetiker.ch">rrd-developers@lists.oetiker.ch</a><br><a href="https://lists.oetiker.ch/cgi-bin/listinfo/rrd-developers">https://lists.oetiker.ch/cgi-bin/listinfo/rrd-developers</a><br></div></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>