图形演化下的图学学科

Graphics Discipline Based on the Graphical Evolution

本文回顾了人类在适应自然、改造自然的过程中对图形的需求以及图形的发展对社会进步的作用,从图形引出文字、图形引出数字的本源出发,追溯图之源。用一个"形"、"意"、"元"、"用"四维结构演绎图形的属性、地位和作用,并从这4个维度分析图形的演化过程,揭示了图形在"形"维度的高维化、"意"维度的深度化、"元"维度的融合化和"用"维度的渗透化的发展趋势。阐述了在这个图形演化趋势下的图学科学的形成、变革与发展,揭示图学科学的内涵。在此认知下给出了一个基于图形要素的图学学科框架体系。

The paper reviews the need of graphs in the course of human adaptation to nature and transformation of nature,and the role graphs played in social development by looking back at how script and number originated from graphs.The paper explains the features,status and functions of the graph based on a four dimensional descriptive structure,including“shape”,“meaning”,“element”and“utility”,and also analyzes the evolution of graphs on these four dimensions.It is shown that the“shape”dimension is characterized with height,the“meaning”dimension with depth,the“element”dimension with fusion and“utility”dimension with penetration.Along this line of graphic evolution,the present study explicates the formation,transformation,and development of graphics,as well as what graphics refers to.In this sense,a framework of graphics is proposed based on elements of the graph.