Journal of Graphic Science of Japan

The co-occurrence network diagram is one of the methods of Text Mining, it has been used in market research. However, in the present, established theory of interpreting the co-occurrence network diagram has not been found. This study aims to explore new interpretive procedure of the co-occurrence network diagram through out graphical approach in different writing style. The results are as follows: 1)“Thesis” and “Description” have a lot of co-occurring words and phrases. And they are more complex and tangled than other writing style. 2)“Novel” and “Essay” have many scenes because some words would not be used more than once in a sentence. 3)“Blog article” is similar as “Novel” and “Essay”, however the indicator of number of community is shown “Blog article” is also similar to “Newspaper article”. It suggests that “Blog article” has a few topic groups in a paragraph. 4)“Editorial” and “Newspaper article” have some similarity in 7 indicators. Moreover, there are many connections of the three words.

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　According to the New Testament, the Annunciation is the announcement by the angel Gabriel that Mary would conceive a child to be born Christ, the Son of God. However there are a variety of pictures of the Annunciation, because there was no specific details written in text and many interpretations of the scene were created by artists. In this study, we collected photographic documentation of 213 paintings from the Middle Ages to modern times. We grouped the works in relation to era and region, and considered the characteristics of pictorial space by descriptive geometry. The results showed that expression changed depending on the era, however from the Renaissance onward, Italian paintings were influenced by the theory of L. B. Alberti. Also, when the vanishing point of the picture plane of 154 works painted using one point perspective were compared according to region, in Italian paintings the vanishing point was of a similar height to that of Mary, but in Northern European paintings, the point of view was high in order for the whole scene to be visible.

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