Breakthrough In Drawing Complex Venn Diagrams: Goes to 11

00_NOP writes "Venn diagrams are all the rage in this election year, but drawing comprehensible diagrams for anything more than 3 sets has proved to be very difficult. Until the breakthrough just announced by Khalegh Mamakani and Frank Ruskey of the University of Victoria in Canada, nobody had managed to draw a simple (no more than two lines crossing), symmetric Venn diagram for more than 7 sets (only primes will work). Now they have pushed that on to 11. And it's pretty too."

Comments

Re:Looks nice, but let's be honest

[Anonymous Coward]

I wonder if people dabbling in haruspicy see things the same way.

Of course this is where it all began..

[wisebabo]

(Classic SMBC cartoon)

http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=1917

Re:Useless is in the eye of the beholder.

[guttentag]

I agree that the 11-Venn is fairly useless as a PowerPoint slide...

Are you inferring
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that there are things which
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are not
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fairly useless as PowerPoint slides?
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Many have claimed to invent such a thing, but none have succeeded.