By Gordon Rugg
Note: This article is a slightly edited and updated reblog of one originally posted on the Search Visualizer blog in 2012.
How can you visualise complexity?
It’s a simple-looking question. It invites the response: “That all depends on what you mean by ‘complexity’ and how you measure it”.
This article is about some things that you might mean by “complexity” and about how you can measure them and visualise them. It’s one of those posts that ended up being longer than expected… The core concepts are simple, but unpacking them into their component parts requires a fair number of diagrams. We’ll be exploring the theme of complexity again in later articles, as well as the theme of practical issues affecting visualizations.
This article focuses mainly on board games, to demonstrate the underlying principles. It then looks at real world activities, and some of the issues involved there.
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