By Pat Hanrahan
This ebook on computer graphics covers visualization in depth. Following are the topics covered in this ebook.
- The Purpose of Visualization
Information visualization, Card, Mackinlay, Schneiderman (handout)
Spatial schemas in depictions, Tversky (handout)
Decision to launch the Challenger, Tufte (handout) - Data and Image Models
The eyes have it, Schneiderman (html)
Bertin and beyond, Green (html)
The structure of the information visualization design space, Card, Mackinlay (pdf) - Discussion of examples of good and bad visualizations
- Perception and Cognition
Small Multiples, In Envisioning Information
Layering, In Envisioning Information
Graphical perception, Spence and Lawandowsky (handout)
Integral vs. separable dimensions, Palmer (handout)
Graphical perception, Cleveland and McGill (html).
Demonstrations
Healey's preattentive vision applet
Rensink's change blindness applet
The Game of Set - Design Problem I
Diffusion tensor MRI, Dave Akers, Rachel Mackenzie
Ancestral trees, Jeff Klingner, Merrie Ringel - Space (On Being in the Right Space)
Escaping flatland, In Envisioning Information
Narratives of space and time, In Envisioning Information
Map Projections in PDF
Postmortem of an example, Bertin (handout)
A tour of Trellis graphics, R. Becker et al. (ps)
Table lens, Rao and Card, (acm) - Design Problem II
C++ classes and methods, Mike Cammarano, Daniel Horn
Network intrusion detection, Amir Lopatin, John Gerth - Color
Color and information, In Envisioning Information
Abstracting reality, MacEachren (handout)
Area Colors, Imhof (handout), Virtual Library
PRAVDA, Bergman, Treinish, Rogowitz
Color guidelines, Brewer
CIELUV and CIELAB Applets, P. Rhodes - Design Problem III
Gene arrays, Johann Won, Jessy Kang
Flows of people and commodities, Ron Yeh, Doantam Phan - Interaction
Dynamic queries, Ahlberg, C. and Shneiderman, B., (html)
Dynamic queries, starfield displays, and the path to Spotfire, html.
Demonstrations and videos
ggobi
Excentric labels
Homefinder
Cellphones
Fry's zipcodes
Attribute explorer and cone tree video
Table lens - Design Problem IV
User event logs (VIBE), Kjell Reutersward, Stace Peterson
Social networks, Mike Choy, Jed Crosby
Light fields, Bill Chen, Chris Hong - Trees and Graphs
Rheingold-Tilford (handout)
Kamada-Kawai (handout)
DOI-tree (html)
dot paper, Gansner et al. (pdf) - Self Illustrating Phenomena
- Temporal Photography
- Conveying Shape: Line Drawings
Dooley, Cohen, Line illustration (handout)
Hayes, Ross, Lines of sight (handout)
DeCarlo, et al, Suggestive contours (html) - Conveying Shape: Shading and Texturing
Gooch and Gooch, Communicating shape
Ramachandran, 2-D or not 2-D--that is the question (handout)
Interrante, Texture
Akers et al. Conveying shape with image-based relighting - Animation
Principles, Lasseter, (acm)
Animation: Can it facilitate?, B. Tversky et al., (handout)
Slithy, (html) - Graphical Integrity
Graphical integrity, Tufte, (handout)
Every map shows this, but not that, Wood, (handout)