Visualization of uncertain scalar data fields using color scales and perceptually adapted noise

Proceedings - APGV 2011: ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium on Applied Perception in Graphics and Visualization

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 59-66

  Coninx, Alexandre ^a,b,c   Bonneau, Georges Pierre ^b   Droulez, Jacques ^a   Thibault, Guillaume ^a,c  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

^c EDF R AND D   (France)

Author keywords

Computer graphics; Contrast sensitivity; Perlin noise; Psychophysics; Scientific visualization; Uncertainty visualization

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; PERLIN NOISE; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SCIENTIFIC VISUALIZATIONS; UNCERTAINTY VISUALIZATION;

COLOR; COLOR COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COLOR IMAGE PROCESSING; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS; QUALITY CONTROL; VISUALIZATION;

DATA VISUALIZATION;

EID: 84855688758     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2077451.2077462     Document Type: Conference Paper

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