A Classification of Visual Representations

Communications of the ACM

Volumn 37, Issue 12, 1994, Pages 36-49

  Lohse, Gerald L ^a   Biolsi, Kevin ^b   Walker, Neff ^c   Rueter, Henry H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); DIGITAL COMPUTERS; IMAGE UNDERSTANDING; LEARNING SYSTEMS; VISUAL COMMUNICATION; VISUALIZATION;

IMAGE SYNTHESIS; TAXONOMY; VISUAL REPRESENTATIONS;

COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

EID: 0028754008     PISSN: 00010782     EISSN: 15577317     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/198366.198376     Document Type: Article

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