An extension of Wilkinson's algorithm for positioning tick labels on axes

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1036-1043

  Talbot, Justin ^a   Lin, Sharon ^a   Hanrahan, Pat ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

axis labeling; nice numbers

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATED SYSTEMS; AXIS LABELING; CONTEXTUAL INFORMATION; DATA COMPONENTS; DATA RANGES; FONT SIZE; GRAPHIC DESIGN; INFORMATION VISUALIZATION; LABELINGS; NICE NUMBERS; OPTIMIZATION CRITERIA; OPTIMIZATION FUNCTION; OPTIMIZATION PROBLEMS; SEARCH ALGORITHMS; WILKINSON;

AUTOMATION; DATA VISUALIZATION; DESIGN; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; VISUALIZATION;

OPTIMIZATION;

EID: 78149246289     PISSN: 10772626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVCG.2010.130     Document Type: Article

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