From Aesthetics to Visual Representations
From Aesthetics to Visual Representations. Or… Why was Andrew compelled to have me show pictures of molecules. Michael Gleicher Dept of Computer Sciences University of Wisconsin - Madison. A Protein Surface. Work with Greg Cipriano and George Phillips. A Protein Surface.
From Aesthetics to Visual Representations
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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
A Protein Surface Work with Greg Cipriano and George Phillips
Molecular Surface Abstraction Work with Greg Cipriano and George Phillips
What’s Happening? • Simplification • Stylized Display • Surface Indications
Art Visual Cognitive Science Cue reduction Provide Depth Cues Enhance Contours Tolerance of Shading • Abstraction • Good Lighting • Line Drawings • Non-Photorealism
Need to get people to use it Provide it on the web! grape.uwbacter.org
The world, 1528. Birmingham Public Library Digital Collection. http://bplonline.cdmhost.com/cdm4/results.php?CISOOP1=any&CISOFIELD1=CISOSEARCHALL&CISOROOT=/p4017coll7&CISOBOX1=World1528a.sid
Charte Cosmographique, auec les Noms, Proprietez, Nature & Operations des Vents (1544) Birmingham Public Library
FiguraDelMondoUniversale FiguraDelMondoUniversale, 1558
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
