An Evaluation of Glyph Perception for Real Symmetric Traceless Tensor Properties

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2010
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The Eurographics Association and Blackwell Publishing Ltd.
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A perceptual study of four tensor glyphs for symmetric, real, traceless tensors was performed. Each glyph encodes three properties of the system: Orientation, uniaxiality (alignment along the direction of orientation), and biaxiality (alignment along a vector orthogonal to the orientation). Thirty users over two studies were asked to identify these three properties for each glyph type under a variety of permutations in order to evaluate the effectiveness of visually communicating the properties; response time was also measured. We discuss the significant differences found between the methods as guidance to the use of these glyphs for traceless tensor visualization.
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@article{
10.1111:j.1467-8659.2009.01711.x
, journal = {Computer Graphics Forum}, title = {{
An Evaluation of Glyph Perception for Real Symmetric Traceless Tensor Properties
}}, author = {
Jankun-Kelly, T. J.
and
Lanka, Yagneshwara
and
II, J. Edward Swan
}, year = {
2010
}, publisher = {
The Eurographics Association and Blackwell Publishing Ltd.
}, ISSN = {
1467-8659
}, DOI = {
10.1111/j.1467-8659.2009.01711.x
} }
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