Legible cities: Focus-dependent multi-resolution visualization of urban relationships

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1169-1175

  Chang, Remco ^a   Wessel, Ginette ^a   Kosara, Robert ^a   Sauda, Eric ^a   Ribarsky, William ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHARLOTTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Information visualization; Multi resolution; Urban models

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION VISUALIZATION; URBAN MODELS;

ABSTRACTING; COMPUTATION THEORY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; VISUALIZATION;

DATA ACQUISITION;

EID: 35948973539     PISSN: 10772626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVCG.2007.70574     Document Type: Article

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