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Applying color theory to creating scientific visualizations

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SIGGRAPH '09: SIGGRAPH 2009: Talks

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https://doi.org/10.1145/1597990.1597999

Published: 03 August 2009 Publication History

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In this talk, we highlight the process of building effective color maps for producing explanatory and aesthetically engaging scientific visualizations. We describe hands on techniques and tips we have developed over the many years we have designed visualizations ourselves. We address how you can also use these applied methods to build your own color maps that support static, interactive and animated displays. In this talk, we will go through at least two examples. The first is a visualization and anmation sequence depicting a computationally generated perfect storm and the second is an interactive visual depiction of a computationally modeled supernova or stellar explosion. We also hope to cover newly emerging visualization efforts during this presentation.

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Applying color theory to creating scientific visualizations
1. Computing methodologies
  1. Computer graphics
    1. Image manipulation
      1. Texturing
2. General and reference

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SIGGRAPH '09: SIGGRAPH 2009: Talks

August 2009

82 pages

ISBN:9781605588346

DOI:10.1145/1597990

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Association for Computing Machinery

New York, NY, United States

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Published: 03 August 2009

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SIGGRAPH09: Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques Conference

August 3 - 7, 2009

Louisiana, New Orleans

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