Orderable Dimensions of Visual texture Useful for Data Display: Orientation, Size and Contrast
Abstract
Vision research relating to the human perception of texture is briefly reviewed with a view to arriving at the principal dimensions of visual texture useful for data display. The conclusion is that orientation, size (l/spatial frequency), and contrast (amplitude) are the primary orderable dimensions of texture. Data displayed using these texture parameters will be subject to similar dlstorfions to those found when color is used. Textures synthesized using Gabor function primitives can be modulated along the three primary dimensions, Some preliminary results from a study using Gabor functions to modulate luminance are presented which suggest that: perceived texture size difference are approximately logarithmic, a 5% change in texton size is detectable 50% of the time, and large perceived size differences are do not predict small (just noticeable) size differences.
Department
Center for Coastal and Ocean Mapping
Publication Date
6-1-1992
Volume
'92
Journal Title
Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI)
Pages
203-209
Conference Date
May 3 - May 7, 1992
Publisher Place
Monterey, CA, USA
Rights
©1992
Publisher
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
10.1145/142750.142791
Document Type
Conference Proceeding
Recommended Citation
C. Ware and W. Knight, "Orderable dimensions of visual texture for data display," in Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems - CHI ’92, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 1992.