History
Parallel coordinates were invented by Maurice d'Ocagne in 1885, and were independently re-discovered and popularised by Al Inselberg in 1959 and systematically developed as a coordinate system starting from 1977. Some important applications are in collision avoidance algorithms for air traffic control (1987—3 USA patents), data mining (USA patent), computer vision (USA patent), Optimization, process control, more recently in intrusion detection and elsewhere.
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