3D Visualization of Document Retrieval Spaces Using VRML

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael J. Nelson
Keyword(s):  
3D Visualization ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Document Retrieval ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Two Dimensional ◽  
Dimensional Representation ◽  
Graphical Displays

With the advent of more powerful workstations on the Internet capable of fast graphical displays, the possibility of using a three dimensional visualization of a database of documents is greater than ever before. Much previous work on the visualization of documents has concentrated on the two dimensional representation of document spaces.

The Effect of Visual Illusions on the Graphical Display of Information

2010 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-42 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. S. Amer ◽  
Sury Ravindran
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Decision Aids ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Accounting Information ◽  
Theoretical Work ◽  
Visual Illusions ◽  
Graphical Display ◽  
Two Dimensional ◽  
Graphical Displays ◽  
Decision Biases

ABSTRACT: Graphical displays of business and accounting information are widely used as decision aids. Theoretical work in visual perception indicates graphs that exhibit certain characteristics create visual illusions that may result in biased decision making. This paper reports the results of an experiment that demonstrates how such two-dimensional and three-dimensional visual illusions cause viewers to make biased comparison judgments. The experiment also shows that these decision biases can be mitigated by including gridlines in both two- and three-dimensional graphs.

scholarly journals A system for generating virtual seeds

1998 ◽  
Vol 55 (spe) ◽  
pp. 39-45 ◽  
Author(s):  
Y. Sako ◽  
K. Fujimura ◽  
M.B. McDonald ◽  
D. James
Keyword(s):  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Promising Method ◽  
Two Dimensional ◽  
Dimensional Representation ◽  
Accurate Identification ◽  
Computer Screen ◽  
Three Dimensional Objects ◽  
Three Dimensional Representation ◽  
Quicktime Vr

Seed analysts need to identify seeds, and seed catalogs are used as a reference to accomplish this task. Conventional seed catalogs supply two-dimensional photographs and hand-drawn diagrams. In this study, a new, three-dimensional representation of seeds is developed to supplement these traditional photographs and drawings. QuickTime VR is a promising method for viewing three-dimensional objects on a computer screen. It permits manipulation of an object by rotating and viewing it from any pre-specified angle at an interactive speed, allowing the viewer the sense of examining a hand-held object. In this study, QuickTime VR object movies of seeds were created as interactive "movies" of seeds that can be rotated and scaled to give the viewer the sensation of examining actual seeds. This approach allows the examination of virtual seeds from any angle, permitting more accurate identification of seeds by seed analysts.

scholarly journals The Two Dimensional Representation of Three Dimensional Interferometer Measurements

1979 ◽  
Vol 49 ◽  
pp. 19-26
Author(s):  
R.H. Frater
Keyword(s):  
Three Dimensional ◽  
General Purpose ◽  
Two Dimensions ◽  
Two Dimensional ◽  
Dimensional Representation ◽  
General Purpose Computer ◽  
Efficient Processing ◽  
Purpose Computer

SummaryA convolution technique for the reduction of three dimensional interferometer measurements to two dimensions is described. With the addition of relatively simple hardware to a general purpose computer the technique allows fast, efficient processing of three dimensional data.

scholarly journals New insights into the suitability of the third dimension for visualizing multivariate/multidimensional data: A study based on loss of quality quantification

2014 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-30 ◽  
Author(s):  
Antonio Gracia ◽  
Santiago González ◽  
Víctor Robles ◽  
Ernestina Menasalvas ◽  
Tatiana von Landesberger
Keyword(s):  
Analytical Approach ◽  
Distance Perception ◽  
Statistical Tests ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Multidimensional Data ◽  
Two Dimensional ◽  
Dimensional Representation ◽  
The Third ◽  
Quality Degradation ◽  
Third Dimension

Most visualization techniques have traditionally used two-dimensional, instead of three-dimensional representations to visualize multidimensional and multivariate data. In this article, a way to demonstrate the underlying superiority of three-dimensional, with respect to two-dimensional, representation is proposed. Specifically, it is based on the inevitable quality degradation produced when reducing the data dimensionality. The problem is tackled from two different approaches: a visual and an analytical approach. First, a set of statistical tests (point classification, distance perception, and outlier identification) using the two-dimensional and three-dimensional visualization are carried out on a group of 40 users. The results indicate that there is an improvement in the accuracy introduced by the inclusion of a third dimension; however, these results do not allow to obtain definitive conclusions on the superiority of three-dimensional representation. Therefore, in order to draw further conclusions, a deeper study based on an analytical approach is proposed. The aim is to quantify the real loss of quality produced when the data are visualized in two-dimensional and three-dimensional spaces, in relation to the original data dimensionality, to analyze the difference between them. To achieve this, a recently proposed methodology is used. The results obtained by the analytical approach reported that the loss of quality reaches significantly high values only when switching from three-dimensional to two-dimensional representation. The considerable quality degradation suffered in the two-dimensional visualization strongly suggests the suitability of the third dimension to visualize data.

Thinking with Pictures

2014 ◽  
pp. 24-41
Keyword(s):  
Visual Communication ◽  
Visual Literacy ◽  
Explanatory Power ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Visual Thinking ◽  
Two Dimensional ◽  
Art And Design ◽  
Visual Expression

Projects described in this chapter are aimed at enhancing our thinking with pictures. “Thinking with Pictures” encourages the reader to use visual thinking as an instrument of acquiring knowledge, and introduces two projects aimed at developing visual literacy and applying various ways of visual expression. “Collage” introduces collage technique as a tool for visual communication. Two projects provided in this chapter are aimed at enhancing visual literacy and skills. “Sketching a shoe” is intended to amplify one’s confidence about one’s ability to depict things, and build a feeling of being prepared to make quick drawings on a board or on iPad. This project will encourage the reader to make sketches that strengthen one’s own argumentation, show what one wants to be seen, and help to convey one’s own solution in a visual way. “Creating a Composition with a Crowd” encourages the reader to draw a group of people and apply visual reasoning by showing background scenery that has an explanatory power. The next part of the chapter tells about collage because one may say without exaggeration that in the digital times most artists apply the form of a collage in their work. The Internet is flooded with ready images, clipart, art, and design samples, intriguing specimens. More importantly, ideas are not copyrighted. Before the advent of computers many artists applied techniques of cutting and pasting readymade material, thus making collages (two dimensional) and assemblages (three dimensional) of different forms.

The Sahara

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barbara E. Barich
Keyword(s):  
Human Body ◽  
Manufacturing Process ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Two Dimensional ◽  
Dimensional Representation ◽  
Three Dimensional Representation ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Symbolic Content ◽  
The Relationship

This chapter discusses the collection of objects, in clay and stone, from various pastoral Saharan sites whose original core area lay between Libya (Tadrart Acacus) and Algeria (Tassili- n-Ajjer). The chapter starts from the general theme of the relationship between the figurines and the subjects they represent, and the difference between two-dimensional and three-dimensional representation. It goes on to discuss the manufacturing process of the clay specimens (dating from between 7000 and 4000 years ago) and the significance of the changes introduced by the Neolithic. Most of the items studied fall into the category of zoomorphic figurines, with only two anthropomorphic examples, and find in the depiction of cattle their most striking subject. These representations possess an evident symbolic content which must be framed within the pastoral ideology of the Saharan Neolithic. In the anthropomorphic figurines the representation of the human body also plays the role of recapturing the sense of wholeness.

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