The effect of shading in extracting structure from space-filling visualizations

Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Visualization

Volumn 8, Issue , 2004, Pages 209-216

  Irani, Pourang ^a   Slonowsky, Dean ^a   Shajahan, Peer ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

Author keywords

2 1 2 D representation; CushionMap; Shading and perception; Space filling visualization; Structure from shading; TreeMap

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS; DISKS (MACHINE COMPONENTS); INFORMATION ANALYSIS; MAPS; STATISTICAL METHODS; TREES (MATHEMATICS); VISUALIZATION;

CUSHIONMAP; SHADING AND PERCEPTION; SPACE-FILLING VISUALIZATION; TREEMAP;

DATA STRUCTURES;

EID: 4644261989     PISSN: 10939547     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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