Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
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 visualization plays in extracting, organizing, and crystallizing the concepts found in complex data.
Topics and features: contains contributions from an international selection of preeminent authorities; presents a thorough introduction to the discipline of knowledge visualization, its current state of affairs and possible future developments; examines how tables have been used for information visualization in historical textual documents; discusses the application of visualization techniques for knowledge transfer in business relationships, and for the linguistic exploration and analysis of sensory descriptions; investigates the use of visualization to understand orchestral music scores, the optical theory behind Renaissance art, and to assist in the reconstruction of an historic church; describes immersive 360 degree stereographic visualization, knowledge-embedded embodied interaction, and a novel methodology for the analysis of architectural forms.
This interdisciplinary collection of the state of the art in knowledge visualization will be of considerable interest to researchers from a broad spectrum of backgrounds in both industry and academia.
Synopsis
Part I: Knowledge Visualization Background
What is an Effective Knowledge Visualization?
Martin J. Eppler
What Is Knowledge Visualization?
Stefan Bertschi, Sabrina Bresciani, Tom Crawford, Randy Goebel, Wolfgang Kienreich, Martin Lindner, Vedran Sabol, and Andrew Vande Moere
Part II: Text
Tables and Early Information Visualization
Francis T. Marchese
Contract Clarity and Usability through Visualization
Helena Haapio
From Culture to Text to Interactive Visualization of Wine Reviews
Andreas Kerren, Mimi Kyusakova, and Carita Paradis
Part III: Art
Colorscore: Visualization and Condensation of Structure of Classical Music
Aki Hayashi, Takayuki Itoh, and Masaki Matsubara
The Implications of David Hockney's Thesis for 3D Computer Graphics
Theodor Wyeld
Practice of Using Virtual Reconstruction in the Restoration of Monumental Painting
Tatiana Laska, Irina Tsimbal, Sergey Golubkov, and Yulia Petrova
Part IV: Culture
Mediation of Knowledge Construction of Historic Sites
Kristine Deray, and Michael Day
Memory, Difference, and Information
Andrew P. Lucia, Jenny E. Sabin, and Peter Lloyd Jones
Cultural Data Sculpting
Sarah Kenderdine, Jeffrey Shaw, and Tobias Gremmler
Synopsis
This text reviews the evolution of the field of visualization, providing innovative examples from various disciplines, highlighting the important role that visualization plays in extracting and organizing the concepts found in complex data. Features: presents a thorough introduction to the discipline of knowledge visualization, its current state of affairs and possible future developments; examines how tables have been used for information visualization in historical textual documents; discusses the application of visualization techniques for knowledge transfer in business relationships, and for the linguistic exploration and analysis of sensory descriptions; investigates the use of visualization to understand orchestral music scores, the optical theory behind Renaissance art, and to assist in the reconstruction of an historic church; describes immersive 360 degree stereographic visualization, knowledge-embedded embodied interaction, and a novel methodology for the analysis of architectural forms.