Figure
This meaning of this word involves creating a small frame and considering the entire space within it as a ground to draw-in a pictorial image that symbolizes something. The classical meaning of the verb "to plan" (hakaru&sbquo which uses the same character as zu) is "to plan something difficult." It also means "to plot something." "Diagram" (zukai) means explanation or interpretation using figures&sbquo and further indicates the facility to make something understandable by means of expression through figures. To express a thought by symbolizing it is to translate the thought itself into figures&sbquo and can be a method to expand the thought. Figures can be categorized into the following formats: table&sbquo graph&sbquo chart&sbquo score&sbquo illustration&sbquo draft and map. In any format&sbquo expressing intention through figures will clarify the category&sbquo history&sbquo context&sbquo and indexical axis&sbquo thereby facilitating understanding. In order to turn something into figures a table expresses basic category and positional relationships&sbquo Graphs such as the pie chart&sbquo bar chars&sbquo and line graph make it easy to compare and study the categorized data and their corresponding relationship. A chart enables you to read at a glance the contextual flow in the progress of an event. Regarding scores&sbquo it is best to consider the music score as the typical example. In illustrations&sbquo elements translated into factors are expressed with the flow of time; it is an expressive attempt to translate something into a figure with an extremely realistic expression. In design&sbquo to translate something into a figure is to do nothing more than convert it into signals or signs. This can be said to be synonymous with the original meaning of "de-sign": do+sign. We can define creating a figure in design as a method of expression and as the expressive configuration of one's thought itself.