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Data Painter: A Tool for Colormap Interaction

Omniah H. Nagoor, Rita Borgo, Mark Jones Orcid Logo

Computer Graphics & Visual Computing (CGVC) 2017

Swansea University Author: Mark Jones Orcid Logo

DOI (Published version): 10.2312/cgvc.20171280

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The choice of a mapping from data to color should involve careful consideration in order to maximize the user understanding of the underlying data. It is desirable for features within the data to be visually separable and identifiable. Current practice involves selecting a mapping from predefined co...

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Published in: Computer Graphics & Visual Computing (CGVC) 2017
ISBN: 978-3-03868-050-5
Published: 2017
URI: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa35294
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Abstract: The choice of a mapping from data to color should involve careful consideration in order to maximize the user understanding of the underlying data. It is desirable for features within the data to be visually separable and identifiable. Current practice involves selecting a mapping from predefined colormaps or coding specific colormaps using software such as MATLAB. The purposes of this paper are to introduce interactive operations for colormaps that enable users to create more visually distinguishable pixel based visualizations, and to describe our tool, Data Painter, that provides a fast, easy to use framework for defining these color mappings. We demonstrate the use of the tool to create colormaps for various application areas and compare to existing color mapping methods. We present a new objective measure to evaluate their efficacy.
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