HISTORY OF VISUALIZATION

REFERENCE: 30 years of Multidimensional Multivariate Visualization by Wong and Bergeron, in Scientific Visualization, (eds. Nielson, Hagen, Mueller), IEEE Computer Society Press (1997).

NSF Report Visualization in Scientific Computing by McCormick, DeFanti and Brown, Computer Graphics 21(1987)1--14.

Classic book, Exploratory data analysis by Tukey, Addison-Wesley (1977).

IEEE Visualization Conference (1991--).

Computer Graphics:
-- Sutherland's Sketchpad, 1963.
-- Windowing Systems (Xerox PARC, X-windows)

Pre-1976:
-- Crome (1782) used point symbols to show geographical distribution of 56 commodities in Europe.
-- Gibson (1950) on visual texture perception