Chemistry deals with structures too small for the naked eye;thus chemists rely heavily on graphical representations. An external observer could presume that the available chemistry visualization tools would be at the ...
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One of the most challenging problems in data visualization is the perception of 3D flow fields because judging the orientation of 3D paths is perceptually difficult. It is hypothesized that perception of the orientati...
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This paper describes a new technique to visualize 2D flow fields with a sparse collection of dots. A cognitive model proposed by Kent Stevens describes how spatially local configurations of dots are processed in paral...
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In a simulated driving scenario, we investigated the production of vehicle velocity at 30 and 60 mph while varying the amount of optical flow (roadside trees versus no trees) and the geometric field of view (25, 55, a...
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Particle-based simulation methods are used to model a wide range of complex phenomena and to solve time-dependent problems of various scales. Effective visualization of the resulting state should communicate subtle ch...
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What determines the color appearance of real objects viewed under natural conditions'? The light reflected from different locations on a single object can vary enormously. This variation is enhanced when the mater...
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One of the most important, still unsolved problems in computer graphics is the generation of predictive imagery, i.e., images that represent perfect renditions of reality. Such perfect images are required in applicati...
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Oriented textures and smooth flows are common texture patterns in visualization, non-photorealistic rendering, and graphical depictions of 3D objects. While these patterns have been partially studied in terms of their...
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Oriented textures and smooth flows are common texture patterns in visualization, non-photorealistic rendering, and graphical depictions of 3D objects. While these patterns have been partially studied in terms of their contribution to the inference of 3D shape, early visual aspects of their perception, and in particular, their segregation and perceptual organization into coherent parts, have been largely ignored. Here we explore the perception of such smoothly varying oriented textures and flow patterns in order to provide several insights and formal constraints to their constructive use in graphics and visualization. First, we challenge the view that salient perceptual singularities between perceptually coherent regions in orientation-defined textures (ODTs) are tightly dependent upon outstanding contrasts (a.k.a. gradients, or discontinuities) in their local orientation. Unfortunately, this widely accepted view has emerged from two decades of psychophysical research into orientation-based texture segregation (OBTS) which focused mostly on piecewise constant ODTs. A more general inquiry, however, into ODTs of smoothly varying orientation, reveals new perceptual phenomena. In particular, as we show here, completely smooth oriented patterns exhibit striking perceptual singularities that often are mistaken for discontinuities, and are neither predictable from orientation contrasts nor are they detectable by popular segmentation algorithms (Fig. 1). In contrast to existing perceptual models, we then show that our previous (differential) geometric analysis of oriented patterns [BenShahar and Zucker 2003] can be extended into a new theory that fully predicts the observed perceptual singularities using a novel computational "perceptual singularities measure" (PSM): PSM(x,y)= ∏κT2+κN2>τ(Ridges[κN(x,y) 2/κT(x,y)2 + κN(x,y) 2]) (1) where κT(x,y) and κN(x,y) are the tangential and normal curvatures of the pattern, Ridges() returns the set of ridge points of its argument functi
Previous studies have shown that self-motion has an inhibiting effect on concurrent 3D motion perception. To investigate whether self-motion similarly impairs concurrent image motion perception, we examined human perc...
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