elevation: 3200m
The Summit View
At the top, every dataset is terrain. Ridgelines reveal outliers, saddle points mark decisions, and the horizon offers a quiet place to decide which story should be graphed first.
thin air, precise axes
elevation: 2410m
Ridgeline Trail
The route narrows into clean coordinate decisions. Axes, scales, legends, and annotations are packed like field tools: only what earns its weight stays in the kit.
elevation: 1280m
Montane Graphs
Below the ridge, relationships branch like forest paths. Networks, clusters, and flows take shape in the filtered light, each node a cairn pointing toward the next inference.
see also: network theory / map symbols
elevation: 640m
Valley Floor Symbols
The terrain opens into an organic scatter of graphing instruments: plots, pins, rulers, compasses, and mountain marks placed where the map needs them rather than where a grid demands.