A New Perspective on Drawing Venn Diagrams for Data Visualization

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Main Author: Csanády, Bálint
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author Csanády, Bálint
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contents We introduce VennFan, a method for generating $n$-set Venn diagrams based on the polar coordinate projection of trigonometric boundaries, resulting in Venn diagrams that resemble a set of fan blades. Unlike most classical constructions, our method emphasizes readability and customizability by using shaped sinusoids and amplitude scaling. We describe both sine- and cosine-based variants of VennFan and propose an automatic label placement heuristic tailored to these fan-like layouts. VennFan is available as a Python package (https://pypi.org/project/vennfan/).
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spellingShingle A New Perspective on Drawing Venn Diagrams for Data Visualization
Csanády, Bálint
Graphics
Computational Geometry
Human-Computer Interaction
Combinatorics
68U05, 05C62
I.3.3; I.3.5; I.3.6
We introduce VennFan, a method for generating $n$-set Venn diagrams based on the polar coordinate projection of trigonometric boundaries, resulting in Venn diagrams that resemble a set of fan blades. Unlike most classical constructions, our method emphasizes readability and customizability by using shaped sinusoids and amplitude scaling. We describe both sine- and cosine-based variants of VennFan and propose an automatic label placement heuristic tailored to these fan-like layouts. VennFan is available as a Python package (https://pypi.org/project/vennfan/).
title A New Perspective on Drawing Venn Diagrams for Data Visualization
topic Graphics
Computational Geometry
Human-Computer Interaction
Combinatorics
68U05, 05C62
I.3.3; I.3.5; I.3.6
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.06980