Whisper, don't scream: Grids and transparency

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics

Volumn 17, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1444-1458

  Bartram, Lyn ^a   Stone, Maureen C ^a,b  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b StoneSoup Consulting   (United States)

Author keywords

applied perception; automated presentation; Index TermsInformation visualization; visual design.

Indexed keywords

APPLIED PERCEPTION; AUTOMATED PRESENTATION; COGNITIVE CHARACTERISTICS; CONTOUR LINE; IMAGE PROPERTIES; INDEX TERMSINFORMATION VISUALIZATION; KNOW-HOW; RECTANGULAR GRIDS; SCATTER PLOTS; VISUAL DESIGN; VISUAL ELEMENTS;

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; DESIGN; VISUALIZATION;

TRANSPARENCY;

EID: 80051689657     PISSN: 10772626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVCG.2010.237     Document Type: Article

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