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A Review of the Usage and Design of Curves in Information Visualization
journal contribution
posted on 2018-04-18, 23:10 authored by Transdisciplinary image ConferenceTransdisciplinary image Conference, Benjamin Bach, Qiuyuan Ren, Charles Perin, Pierre DragicevicThis paper reviews the many ways curves are used to encode
data in information visualization. As part of our review,
we introduce a curve-based visualization framework
where data can be encoded in two major ways: i) through
a curve’s shape (a process we call embedding) and ii)
through a curve’s local visual attributes (a process we call
enrichment). Our framework helps describing and organizing
the rich design space of curve-based data visualizations,
and offer inspiration for novel data visualizations.