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Using color dimensions to display data dimensions

Colin Ware, +1 more
- 01 Apr 1988 - 
- Vol. 30, Iss: 2, pp 127-142
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This research probes the usefulness of color in enabling human observers to perceive clusters of points in a multidimensional space and compares the resolution of clusters in color and in space shows that color is an effective extension of space for conveying information about data dimensions.
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One of the advantages of computer graphics is that it enables an unprecedented degree of control over color. Since color vision is three-dimensional, this provides three additional perceptual dimensions that may be used in addition to the two spatial dimensions available on a flat display to present multidimensional data. This research probes the usefulness of color in enabling human observers to perceive clusters of points in a multidimensional space. Comparing the resolution of clusters in color and in space shows that color is an effective extension of space for conveying information about data dimensions. However, the perceptual space defined by color and space is not homogeneous and resolution is poor in a few specific directions. For this reason, the use of multiple views is advocated whenever color is used as a tool in exploratory data analysis.

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Graphical Methods for Data Analysis

TL;DR: This paper presents a meta-modelling framework for developing and assessing regression models for multivariate and multi-dimensional data distributions and describes the distribution of a set of data.
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The Use of Faces to Represent Points in k- Dimensional Space Graphically

TL;DR: Every multivariate observation is visualized as a computer-drawn face that makes it easy for the human mind to grasp many of the essential regularities and irregularities present in the data.
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Color gamut transform pairs

TL;DR: A set of alternative models of the RGB monitor gamut based on the perceptual variables hue, saturation, and value (V) or brightness (L) are presented and algorithms for transforming between these models are derived.
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Color Science, Concepts and Methods. Quantitative Data and Formulas

W D Wright
- 01 Oct 1967 - 
TL;DR: The authors' aim has been to provide a comprehensive source book of data required by the practical and theoretical worker in the field of colour and they have achieved this aim so successfully that their book is likely to become the standard work on the subject and to remain so for a good many years.