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Combining Perception and Impressionist Techniques for Nonphotorealistic Visualization of Multidimensional Data
Christopher G. Healey.
In SIGGRAPH 2001 Course 32, ACM, Nonphotorealistic Rendering in Scientific Visualization, pp. 20--52, Los Angeles, California,
2001. [BibTeX]
Engaging viewers through nonphotorealistic visualizations
Author(s): Laura Tateosian, Christopher G. Healey, James T. Enns.
Proceedings: NPAR '07: Proceedings of the 5th international symposium on Non-photorealistic animation and rendering, pp. 93--102, New York, NY, USA, ACM,
2007.
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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.
Formalizing Artistic Techniques and Scientific Visualization for Painted Renditions of Complex Information Spaces
Christopher G. Healey.
International Joint Conference on Artifical Intelligence 2001, pp. 371--376, Seattle, Washington,
2001. [BibTeX]
Perception and painting: a search for effective, engaging visualizations
Christopher G. Healey, James T. Enns.
IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, Vol. 22, No. 2, pp. 10--15, March-April,
2002. [BibTeX]
Perceptually based brush strokes for nonphotorealistic visualization
Christopher G. Healey, Laura Tateosian, James T. Enns, Mark Remple.
ACM Transactions on Graphics, Vol. 23, No. 1, pp. 64--96, January,
2004. [BibTeX]
Realism, expressionism, and abstraction: applying art techniques to visualization
Theresa Marie Rhyne, David H. Laidlaw, Victoria Interrante, Christopher G. Healey, D.J. Duke.
Proceedings of the conference on Visualization '01, pp. 523--526,
2001. [BibTeX]