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Engaging viewers through nonphotorealistic visualizations

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Laura G. Tateosian,

Christopher G. Healey,

James T. EnnsAuthors Info & Claims

NPAR '07: Proceedings of the 5th international symposium on Non-photorealistic animation and rendering

Pages 93 - 102

https://doi.org/10.1145/1274871.1274886

Published: 04 August 2007 Publication History

Abstract

Research in human visual cognition suggests that beautiful images can engage the visual system, encouraging it to linger in certain locations in an image and absorb subtle details. By developing aesthetically pleasing visualizations of data, we aim to engage viewers and promote prolonged inspection, which can lead to new discoveries within the data. We present three new visualization techniques that apply painterly rendering styles to vary interpretational complexity (IC), indication and detail (ID), and visual complexity (VC), image properties that are important to aesthetics. Knowledge of human visual perception and psychophysical models of aesthetics provide the theoretical basis for our designs. Computational geometry and nonphotorealistic algorithms are used to preprocess the data and render the visualizations. We demonstrate the techniques with visualizations of real weather and supernova data.

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NPAR '07: Proceedings of the 5th international symposium on Non-photorealistic animation and rendering

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DOI:10.1145/1274871

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