The Influence of contour on similarity perception of star glyphs

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics

Volumn 20, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 2251-2260

  Fuchs, Johannes ^a   Isenberg, Petra ^b   Bezerianos, Anastasia ^c   Fischer, Fabian ^a   Bertini, Enrico ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

^b INRIA   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

^d POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Contours; Glyphs; Perception; Quantitative evaluation; Similarity detection; Star glyphs; Visual comparison

Indexed keywords

DATA VISUALIZATION; EXPERIMENTS; SENSORY PERCEPTION;

CONTOURS; GLYPHS; QUANTITATIVE EVALUATION; SIMILARITY DETECTION; STAR GLYPH; VISUAL COMPARISON;

STARS;

EID: 84909583159     PISSN: 10772626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVCG.2014.2346426     Document Type: Article

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