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Joy plot en · NOUN

Etymology

Blend of Joy Division + plot, from a plot that was made famous by the band Joy Division, who used the plotting of a signal from pulsar CP1919 as the cover image for their 1979 album Unknown Pleasures.

Meanings

  1. (neologism) A plot of a repetitive signal, by repeatedly plotting each period on a separate line one under another, to create a pseudo-3D image that appears like a mountainous ridge.
    • Joy plot depicting the fuzzification before normalization to 1 obtained by assigning one fuzzy set to each severity category. 2018, Davide Ciucci, Gabriella Pasi, Barbara Vantaggi, Scalable Uncertainty Management: 12th International Conference, SUM 2018, Milan, Italy, October 3-5, 2018, Proceedings, Springer, →ISBN, page 70:

Forms

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Joy plots Number=Plur lexicographic
Joyplot alternative lexicographic
joy plot alternative lexicographic
joyplot alternative lexicographic

Synonyms

ridgeline plot

wikipedia: CP1919 · wikipedia: Joy Division · wikipedia: Unknown Pleasures