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Visualization

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)

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