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.

Usage notes

Some consider the term offensive, because the band Joy Division named themselves after the sexual slavery wing of a Nazi concentration camp mentioned in the 1955 novel House of Dolls,[1][2] and prefer the synonymous term ridgeline plot instead.

Synonyms
  • ridgeline plot

References
  1. Ogg, Alex (2006) No More Heroes: A Complete History of UK Punk from 1976 to 1980, w:Cherry Red Books, →ISBN, page 572
  2. Reynolds, Simon (2005) Rip It Up and Start Again: Postpunk 1978–1984, Penguin, →ISBN, page 111
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