1.1 Glossary

This document uses the following terms:

animation: A record of synthetic, successive still images that produce an illusion of movement when played back.

camera: A virtual representation of a camera that controls the position of the viewer window inside the 3-D environment.

data point: An individual value that is plotted in a chart and is represented together with other data points by bars, columns, lines, pie or doughnut slices, dots, and various other shapes, which are referred to as data markers. Data markers of the same color constitute a data series. 

effect: A user-specified camera motion that occurs for the duration of a scene.

scene: An independent part of a tour that has a beginning and end, and a specific time duration in which a particular data visualization on the map occurs.

theme: A set of unified design elements, such as colors, fonts, graphics, and styles, that define the appearance of a website, document, or data visualization.

tooltip: A window displaying text that is created when the mouse is moved over a window or notification icon.

tour: A scene or sequence of scenes that describe a story about geographical locations, time periods, and data visualization.

transition: The camera path and time period that connects one scene to another.

workbook: A container for a collection of sheets.

XML: The Extensible Markup Language, as described in [XML1.0].

XML schema: A description of a type of XML document that is typically expressed in terms of constraints on the structure and content of documents of that type, in addition to the basic syntax constraints that are imposed by XML itself. An XML schema provides a view of a document type at a relatively high level of abstraction.

MAY, SHOULD, MUST, SHOULD NOT, MUST NOT: These terms (in all caps) are used as defined in [RFC2119]. All statements of optional behavior use either MAY, SHOULD, or SHOULD NOT.