A model of symbol lightness discrimination in sparse scatterplots

IEEE Pacific Visualization Symposium 2010, PacificVis 2010 - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 105-112

  Li, Jing ^a   Van Wijk, Jarke J ^a   Martens, Jean Bernard ^a  

^a EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Color perception; Contrast model; Graphical encoding; Gray scale; Lightness; Quantitative model; Scatterplots; Symbol; User experiment; Visual analytic task

Indexed keywords

COLOR PERCEPTION; GRAY SCALE; LIGHTNESS; QUANTITATIVE MODELS; SCATTER PLOTS;

COLOR; COLOR VISION; ENCODING (SYMBOLS); VISUALIZATION;

EXPERIMENTS;

EID: 77951697293     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PACIFICVIS.2010.5429604     Document Type: Conference Paper

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