Abstract
Caricatures are pieces of art depicting persons or sociological conditions in a non-veridical way. In both cases caricatures are referring to a reference model. The deviations from the reference model are the characteristic features of the depicted subject. Good caricatures exaggerate the characteristics of a subject in order to accent them. The concept of caricaturistic visualization is based on the caricature metaphor. The aim of caricaturistic visualization is an illustrative depiction of characteristics of a given dataset by exaggerating deviations from the reference model. We present the general concept of caricaturistic visualization as well as a variety of examples. We investigate different visual representations for the depiction of caricatures. Further, we present the caricature matrix, a technique to make differences between datasets easily identifiable.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 1085-1092 |
Number of pages | 8 |
Journal | IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics |
Volume | 12 |
Issue number | 5 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Sep 2006 |
Externally published | Yes |
Keywords
- Focus+context techniques
- Illustrative visualization
- Volume visualization
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Software
- Signal Processing
- Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
- Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design