alt.hn

2/18/2026 at 2:34:01 PM

A New Perspective on Drawing Venn Diagrams for Data Visualization

https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.06980

by IdealeZahlen

2/21/2026 at 2:37:11 PM

At least the paper is transparent it's a twist on Edwards cogwheel.

I've encountered these in the wild, so interesting to see what's generating them.

by Terretta

2/22/2026 at 7:35:45 AM

These are hard to read if you have no intuition about what these cog shapes look like even without overlapping. But, everyone get ellipses.

by secret-noun

2/22/2026 at 8:06:24 AM

Yeah it doesn't really work in either direction. If I look at a spot its hard to tell which blobs its a part of. If I look at a blob its hard to find all the spots it contains. (imagining of course them not all being labeled) n=4 is already pushing it for venn diagrams, you should probably just have a table above that point.

by recursivecaveat

2/22/2026 at 10:49:09 AM

Impressive but useless. None of there are any more intelligible/useful than circles after 3.

by xnx