A taxonomy of clutter reduction for information visualisation

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1216-1223

  Ellis, Geoffrey ^a   Dix, Alan ^a  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Clutter reduction; Information visualisation; Large datasets; Occlusion; Taxonomy

Indexed keywords

CLUTTER REDUCTION; INFORMATION VISUALISATION; LARGE DATASETS; OCCLUSION;

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); CLUTTER (INFORMATION THEORY); DATABASE SYSTEMS; MULTIVARIABLE SYSTEMS;

DATA VISUALIZATION;

EID: 35948954743     PISSN: 10772626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVCG.2007.70535     Document Type: Article

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