Introduction

Visage is a novel and powerful environment for exploring, analyzing, and visualizing information. Its generic set of data navigation and manipulation tools and scripting language provide rich capabilities for developing highly customized applications for data-intensive domains.

Visage displays are arrangements of elements that can be broken apart by users and directly manipulated, giving users the sense of "getting their hands on the data." The information-centric approach empowers the user to perform actions directly that would traditionally require extensive knowledge of numerous specialized interface features.

This tutorial provides an introduction to Visage and explains some of the basic functions.