Quantitative texton sequences for legible bivariate maps

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1523-1529

  Ware, Colin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

Author keywords

Bivariate maps; legibility; QTonS; quantitative texton sequence; texton; texture

Indexed keywords

BIVARIATE MAPS; LEGIBILITY; QTONS; QUANTITATIVE TEXTON SEQUENCE; TEXTON;

COLOR; DESIGN; EXPERIMENTS; TWO DIMENSIONAL; VISUALIZATION;

TEXTURES;

EID: 77957927818     PISSN: 10772626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVCG.2009.175     Document Type: Conference Paper

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