Form follows function: aesthetic interactive labels

  • Authors:
  • T. Götzelmann;K. Ali;K. Hartmann;Th. Strothotte

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Simulation and Graphics, Otto-von-Guericke University of Magdeburg, Magdeburg, Germany;Department of Simulation and Graphics, Otto-von-Guericke University of Magdeburg, Magdeburg, Germany;Department of Simulation and Graphics, Otto-von-Guericke University of Magdeburg, Magdeburg, Germany;Department of Simulation and Graphics, Otto-von-Guericke University of Magdeburg, Magdeburg, Germany

  • Venue:
  • Computational Aesthetics'05 Proceedings of the First Eurographics conference on Computational Aesthetics in Graphics, Visualization and Imaging
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

Labels effectively convey co-referential relations between textual and visual elements and are a powerful tool to support learning tasks. Therefore, almost all illustrations in scientific or technical documents employ a large number of labels. This paper introduces a novel approach to integrate internal and external labels into projections of complex 3D models in the fashion of hand-made illustrations. The real-time label layout algorithms proposed in the paper balance a number of conflicting requirements such as unambiguity, readability, aesthetic considerations and frame-coherency.