Lying at the intersection of education, art, and cultural heritage, visualization is a powerful tool for representing and interpreting complex information.
This unique text/reference reviews the evolution of the field of visualization, providing innovative examples of applied knowledge visualization from disciplines as varied as law, business management, the arts and humanities. With coverage of theoretical and practical aspects of visualization from ancient Sumerian tablets through to twenty-first century legal contracts, this work underscores the important role that the process of...
Lying at the intersection of education, art, and cultural heritage, visualization is a powerful tool for representing and interpreting complex info...
cross-disciplinary perspectives of its participants. For example, Marc de Mey, a psychologist, used threedimensional computer graphic ren dering to reconstruct Masaccio's Trinity, in order to understand this early Renaissance painter's use of perspective; Thomas Hubbard, a photo journalist, engaged the entire audience in interactive image analysis; or Robert Williams, a computer scientist and musician, who performed Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition on a com puter assisted classical guitar, demonstrating a guitarist's ability to translate simple gestures for enhanced sonic expression....
cross-disciplinary perspectives of its participants. For example, Marc de Mey, a psychologist, used threedimensional computer graphic ren dering to re...
Information visualisation is the field of study that is concerned with the development of methods for transforming abstract, complex data into visual representations in order to make that data more easily communicable and understandable. This volume reviews recent developments in information visualisation techniques, their application, and methods for their evaluation. It offers a wide range of examples of applied information visualisation from across disciplines such as history, art, the humanities, science and technology. Beginning with an examination of its medieval origins, it presents...
Information visualisation is the field of study that is concerned with the development of methods for transforming abstract, complex data into visual ...
This illuminating text formally appraises the innovative ways new media artists engage urban ecology. Highlighting the role of artists as agents of technological change, the work reviews new modes of seeing, representing, and connecting within the urban setting.
Across fourteen chapters, the book describes how state-of-the-art technology can be exploited in order to create artworks that transcend the technology's original purpose, thus expanding the language of environmental engagement whilst also demonstrating a clear understanding of the societal issues and values being...
This illuminating text formally appraises the innovative ways new media artists engage urban ecology. Highlighting the role of artists as agents of...
This illuminating text formally appraises the innovative ways new media artists engage urban ecology. Highlighting the role of artists as agents of technological change, the work reviews new modes of seeing, representing, and connecting within the urban setting.
Across fourteen chapters, the book describes how state-of-the-art technology can be exploited in order to create artworks that transcend the technology's original purpose, thus expanding the language of environmental engagement whilst also demonstrating a clear understanding of the societal issues and values being...
This illuminating text formally appraises the innovative ways new media artists engage urban ecology. Highlighting the role of artists as agents of...
