“The Dangers of Glitziness and Other Visualization Faux Pas” by Cornell Theory Center – ACM SIGGRAPH HISTORY ARCHIVES

“The Dangers of Glitziness and Other Visualization Faux Pas” by Cornell Theory Center


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    The Dangers of Glitziness and Other Visualization Faux Pas

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  • Cornell Theory Center

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    In The Dangers of Glitziness and other Visualization Faux Pas, or ?What?s wrong with this visualization?,? we take a light-hearted look at various pitfalls of scientific visualization. From overused ?glitziness? to unintelligible narration, from data enhancement to erroneous interpolation: VIS-O-MATIC does it all automagically.

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    HARDWARE: IBM RISC System 6000/560

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    SOFTWARE DEVELOPER: Motion: in-house choreographer
    Object generation: in-house and Wavefront
    Rendering: Wavefront

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    Producer: Wayne Lytle
    Copyright: 1993 Wayne Lytle, Cornell Theory Center

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