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Table 1.
Your Visual Answer: Create Music Visualization
When combining visual and auditory way of thinking about music, we can envision a continuum encompassing sound qualities in an art-
work: reserving white color only for silence, gray for sound, and black for noise, as a continuum encompassing all shades in a grayscale.
Create a picture - an interior or exterior scene showing sounds coded according to the grayscale: White - Silence, Gray - Sound, Black -
Noise. Depict the source of the sound and who or what makes/generates it. The three values are to be reserved for the sound.
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about abstract data that lack a notion of position in
space. Visual metaphors serve for representing the
structure of and the relationships within abstract
datasets; therefore, the use of suitable metaphors is
crucial in computer program visualization (Vande
Moere, 2008). As it was stated by Ittelson (2007),
visualization helps to link immaterial concepts to
images because “the ability to perceive objects and
events that have no immediate material existence
made possible the visualisation and creation of
tools.” Rhetorical images such as visual metaphors
create meaning in infographics, evoke emotions,
influence evaluations, and guide users' imagina-
tion (Lengler & Vande Moere, 2009). Due to
Metaphors make invisible concepts perceivable;
they are inherent in our thought and thus enable
visualization of abstract concepts. Michelangelo
supposedly visualized an intended sculpture inside
a block of a marble; he posed that it needed to be
uncovered by an artist. Metaphors are not neces-
sarily based on familiar forms found in nature. We
can assign visuals of objects and related events
to non-physical numerical data (such as network
system data or stock market values) and thus ap-
ply metaphors to process complex information
