There is more to color scales than meets the eye: A review on the use of color in visualization

Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Visualisation

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 943-950

  Silva, Samuel ^a   Madeira, Joaquim ^a   Santos, Beatriz Sousa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AVEIRO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Color; Color mapping; Survey

Indexed keywords

DATA STRUCTURES; DATA VISUALIZATION; KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION; SURVEYS;

COLOR MAPPING; COLOR SCALE SELECTION;

COLOR;

EID: 35348918980     PISSN: 10939547     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IV.2007.113     Document Type: Conference Paper

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