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Multifield visualization covers a range of data types that can be visualized with many different techniques. We summarize both the data types and the categories of techniques, and lay out the reasoning for dividing this Part into chapters by technique rather than by data type.

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    We note that both of these mappings are poor choices visually, but they are the easiest illustrations of the principle.

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Hauser, H., Carr, H. (2014). Categorization. In: Hansen, C., Chen, M., Johnson, C., Kaufman, A., Hagen, H. (eds) Scientific Visualization. Mathematics and Visualization. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-6497-5_11

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