  We revisit the design space of visualizations aiming at identifying and
relating its components. In this sense, we establish a model to examine the
process through which visualizations become expressive for users. This model
has leaded us to a taxonomy oriented to the human visual perception, a
conceptualization that provides natural criteria in order to delineate a novel
understanding for the visualization design space. The new organization of
concepts that we introduce is our main contribution: a grammar for the
visualization design based on the review of former works and of classical and
state-of-the-art techniques. Like so, the paper is presented as a survey whose
structure introduces a new conceptualization for the space of techniques
concerning visual analysis.
