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Seven Sets Venn Diagram

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No Venn diagram will ever top the six-way Venn diagram from the banana genome paper. It is the last word in multi-way Venn diagrams.

https://www.nature.com/articles/nature11241/figures/4

That's a fairly well-known way of doing a multi-set VD (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venn_diagram#Edwards%E2%80%93V...). It generalises to any number of sets.

But they just had to stick a background image banana in there to reduce the readability and increase clutter. Just could not help themselves.

The banana is not just a background image, it is a set itself.

OK, color me impressed. I was finding it remarkably interesting and then read the instruction to drag and flip it around which multiplied the whoa factor by at least 7 infinities

Apparently Venn diagrams can grow arbitrarily large. For each prime number, there is a (rotationally) symmetric Venn Diagram, according to [1], but apparently not a construction proof. See also [2].

[1]: https://www.combinatorics.org/ojs/index.php/eljc/article/vie...

[2]: https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-maximum-number-of-sets-tha...

In answer to the the question posed on the linked page 'who's the author?', probably Anthony Edwards (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A._W._F._Edwards) see https://quentinsf.com/software/venn/ and https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/combinatorics-probab... and https://books.google.co.uk/books/about/Cogwheels_of_the_Mind...

This is impressive, but as others have said : it fails to clarify things. One thing that would probably help is on the "colored side" when the mouse moves from one zone to the other, it should just change the highlights that need to be changed, so we can smoothly visualize where we are. At the moment, when we do this, it first uselessly highlights everything for a second, so we "lose" the ability to visualize "what changed" precisely between the two zones.

If light is being represented wouldn't the sum be represented as white not gray?

If you have enough of it.

I expect it's normalized?

White is just very intense gray. There's actually no such thing as "true white", in the sense that you could always make it brighter.

yes, by pointing a flashlight to your computer screen for example

Love this.

> equidistant in the hue circle

but doesn't seem to be 'subjectively equidistant' as there are some green/green-blue's that are very similar and lots of unused visual separation near orange or violet.

I’m using lattice (line) diagrams to understand intersection concepts like this. They’re easy to generate from cross tables using FCA tools such as the “concepts” Python available in pip.

I enjoy (3) Venn diagrams for their blissful clarity. This Venn diagram technically works, but completely fails at clarity.

Doesn't work, Firefox Android 68.11.0.

Click and dragging is oddly satisfying! The graphic look and color scheme of the diagram looks really cool.

Just use an Upset plot already.

This may or may not be a great site, I have no idea because the site doesn’t work well in mobile.

some people want to be rich

some people want to be useful

some people want to do venn diagrams

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