One last reading. I was tempted to skip it to let you focus on projects, but I think it’s a really important topic.
One Monday, May 7th, we’ll talk about the perception of 3D. We might get to talking about visualizing 3D phenomena, but I am not sure if we’ll get that far. The Piazza posting is optional. But I am curious as to which readings you looked at, and what you think of them.
The readings are:
- Chapter 5 of Visual Thinking for Design (the textbook).
- James Todd. The Visual Perception of 3D Shape. Trends in Cognitive Science. 2004. A nice, compact article.
These are semi-optional – I’d like you to look at them and get a sense. Skim the motivations, look at the pictures.
- Amy and Bruce Gooch. Using Non-Photorealistic Rendering to Communicate Shape. SIGGRAPH ‘99 course notes here. (this is better than the original, but seminal paper. you don’t need to read it in detail – just skim through the motivation and look at the pictures.
- Cipriano and Gleicher. Molecular Surface Abstraction.
- Look at the light collages web page (but it links to the initial version of the paper – if you want to read more, check below).
I really wanted to add a few things that show how to effectively use the cues in visualization. But this is just so huge and broad that I don’t know where to start. I’ll mention some of my favorites (some of these are seminal pieces, where there is lots of follow on. some of these are:
- Lee, et al. Geometry-Dependent Lighting. IEEE Trans of Vis and Comp Graphics. (ieee official version). Note: this paper is the extended version of the original Light Collages paper.
- SIGGRAPH 2008 Course notes “Line Drawings from 3D Models” http://www.cs.princeton.edu/gfx/proj/sg08lines/ – These are nice slides that summarize the topic very well.
- DeCarlo, et al. Suggestive Contours for Conveying Shape. Proc. SIGGRAPH 2003. (pdf) (project). The 2003 paper is really seminal, the web page lists some of the follow-ons.
- Linedemann and Ropinski. About the Influence of Illumination Models on Image Comprehension in Direct Volume Rendering. IEEE Vis 2011. (page here)