If "parts" is the knife, "viz" is the microscope and the sketchpad.
This article explores how this accidental triad maps onto our modern struggle to understand complexity—whether we are looking at a biological organism, a data set, or a fleeting memory. The word "parts" implies violence. Not physical violence, but the violence of analysis. To look at something and see parts is to kill the whole. parts viz cat
is the antidote to this entropy. Act II: The Viz (Visualization) "Viz" is an abbreviation of the Latin videlicet —"namely" or "that is to say." But in modern parlance, particularly in data science and 3D modeling, viz is shorthand for visualization . It is the act of mapping data onto a spatial or graphical plane. If "parts" is the knife, "viz" is the
It sounds like a stage direction in a postmodern play, or a line of functional programming. Not physical violence, but the violence of analysis
The next time you see a cat, try it. Disassemble it in your mind. Visualize its skeleton, its hunting circuit, its place in the domestic network. Then, let it meow.
They represent three distinct modes of understanding a single subject (the "cat"):