Generating color palettes using intuitive parameters

Computer Graphics Forum

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 743-750

  Wijffelaars, Martijn ^a,b   Vliegen, Roel ^a   Van Wijk, Jarke J ^b   Van Der Linden, Erik Jan ^b  

^a Magna View BV   (Netherlands)

^b EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA VISUALIZATION; VISUALIZATION;

COLOR PALETTE; COLOR SPACE; DATA VALUES; GENERATION METHOD; INPUT PARAMETER; MULTIVARIATE DATA VISUALIZATION; PERCEIVED DISTANCES; PERCEPTUAL PROPERTIES;

COLOR;

EID: 53149095071     PISSN: 01677055     EISSN: 14678659     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8659.2008.01203.x     Document Type: Article

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