Joy plot

English

Alternative forms

• joy plot, joyplot, Joyplot

Etymology

Blend of Joy Division +‎ plot, from a plot that was made famous by the band Joy Division, who used the plotting of a signal from pulsar CP1919 as the cover image for their 1979 album Unknown Pleasures.

Noun

Joy plot (plural Joy plots)

1. (neologism) A plot of a repetitive signal, by repeatedly plotting each period on a separate line one under another, to create a pseudo-3D image that appears like a mountainous ridge.
   • 2018, Davide Ciucci, Gabriella Pasi, Barbara Vantaggi, Scalable Uncertainty Management: 12th International Conference, SUM 2018, Milan, Italy, October 3-5, 2018, Proceedings, Springer, →ISBN, page 70:

     Joy plot depicting the fuzzification before normalization to 1 obtained by assigning one fuzzy set to each severity category.

Synonyms

• ridgeline plot