Generative Design Inspiration for Glyphs with Diatoms

We introduce Diatoms, a technique that generates design inspiration for glyphs by sampling from palettes of mark shapes, encoding channels, and glyph scaffold shapes. Diatoms allows for a degree of randomness while respecting constraints imposed by columns in a data table: their data types and domai...

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Veröffentlicht in:IEEE transactions on visualization and computer graphics. - 1996. - 28(2022), 1 vom: 29. Jan., Seite 389-399
1. Verfasser: Brehmer, Matthew (VerfasserIn)
Weitere Verfasser: Kosara, Robert, Hull, Carmen
Format: Online-Aufsatz
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: 2022
Zugriff auf das übergeordnete Werk:IEEE transactions on visualization and computer graphics
Schlagworte:Journal Article
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