An empirical model of slope ratio comparisons

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics

Volumn 18, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 2613-2620

  Talbot, Justin ^a   Gerth, John ^a   Hanrahan, Pat ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

aspect ratio selection; Banking to 45 degrees; orientation resolution; slope perception

Indexed keywords

BANKING TO 45 DEGREES; CLASSIC DESIGN; CLEVELAND; EMPIRICAL MODEL; ESTIMATION STRATEGIES; MITIGATE ERRORS; MODEL FIT; PILOT STUDIES; RATIO ERROR;

ERRORS; EXPERIMENTS;

ASPECT RATIO;

EID: 84867630445     PISSN: 10772626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVCG.2012.196     Document Type: Article

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