From Aesthetics to Visual Representations

1. From Aesthetics to Visual Representations Or… Why was Andrew compelled to have me show pictures of molecules Michael Gleicher Dept of Computer SciencesUniversity of Wisconsin - Madison

2. A Protein Surface Work with Greg Cipriano and George Phillips

3. A Protein Surface

4. Molecular Surface Abstraction Work with Greg Cipriano and George Phillips

5. What’s Happening? • Simplification • Stylized Display • Surface Indications

6. Art Visual Cognitive Science Cue reduction Provide Depth Cues Enhance Contours Tolerance of Shading • Abstraction • Good Lighting • Line Drawings • Non-Photorealism

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8. Why does B fight cancer?

10. The world, 1528. Birmingham Public Library Digital Collection. http://bplonline.cdmhost.com/cdm4/results.php?CISOOP1=any&CISOFIELD1=CISOSEARCHALL&CISOROOT=/p4017coll7&CISOBOX1=World1528a.sid

11. Charte Cosmographique, auec les Noms, Proprietez, Nature & Operations des Vents (1544) Birmingham Public Library

12. FiguraDelMondoUniversale FiguraDelMondoUniversale, 1558

17. Cartographic Labeling Basic principles: • Text should be legible • Smooth, likely straight, path • Text should be visible • Always on top of other features • Text may track important features • E.g. roads, rivers • Text should be close to feature

18. Translate these goals into 3D!

19. Goals • Legibility • Text must be readable • Surface must be smooth • Visibility • Surface can’t enter occluded regions • Surface must bound object • Proximity • Labels must lie as close as possible to corresponding region • Shape-conveying • Scaffold should retain as much of the original shape as possible.

20. Goals • Legibility • Text must be readable • Surface must be smooth • Visibility • Surface can’t enter occluded regions • Surface must bound object • Proximity • Labels must lie as close as possible to corresponding region • Shape-conveying • Scaffold should retain as much of the original shape as possible.

21. Goals • Legibility • Text must be readable • Surface must be smooth • Visibility • Surface can’t enter occluded regions • Surface must bound object • Proximity • Labels must lie as close as possible to corresponding region • Shape-conveying • Scaffold should retain as much of the original shape as possible.

22. Goals • Legibility • Text must be readable • Surface must be smooth • Visibility • Surface can’t enter occluded regions • Surface must bound object • Proximity • Labels must lie as close as possible to corresponding region • Shape-conveying • Scaffold should retain as much of the original shape as possible.

23. Examples

24. Motion Illustration