An Evaluation of Glyph Perception for Real Symmetric Traceless Tensor Properties

作者:Jankun Kelly T J*; Lanka Y S; Swan J E II
来源:Computer Graphics Forum, 2010, 29(3): 1133-1142.
DOI:10.1111/j.1467-8659.2009.01711.x

摘要

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.

  • 出版日期2010