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Seeing Between the Pixels

Pictures in Interactive Systems

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  • © 1997

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  1. Christine Strothotte

    1. Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Otto-von-Guericke University of Magdeburg, Magdeburg, Germany

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  2. Thomas Strothotte

    1. Faculty of Computer Science, Otto-von-Guericke University of Magdeburg, Magdeburg, Germany

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Table of contents (19 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XIX
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  2. Preliminaries

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Introduction

      • Christine Strothotte, Thomas Strothotte
      Pages 3-21

  3. Fundamentals

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 23-23
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    2. Pictures in Computer Systems

      • Christine Strothotte, Thomas Strothotte
      Pages 25-42

    3. Classification of Pictures

      • Christine Strothotte, Thomas Strothotte
      Pages 43-62

    4. Picture Processing by Humans

      • Christine Strothotte, Thomas Strothotte
      Pages 63-79

    5. Information Flow During Human-Computer Interaction

      • Christine Strothotte, Thomas Strothotte
      Pages 81-98

  4. Abstract-Graphical Pictures

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 99-99
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    2. Abstract-Graphical Pictures and Some Applications

      • Christine Strothotte, Thomas Strothotte
      Pages 101-111

    3. Analysis of Abstract-Graphical Pictures

      • Christine Strothotte, Thomas Strothotte
      Pages 113-125

    4. Users’ Analysis and Criticism of Abstract-Graphical Pictures

      • Christine Strothotte, Thomas Strothotte
      Pages 127-146

    5. Viewpoint Descriptions

      • Christine Strothotte, Thomas Strothotte
      Pages 147-170

  5. Pictograms

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 171-171
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    2. The Nature of Pictograms and Their Use

      • Christine Strothotte, Thomas Strothotte
      Pages 173-190

    3. Pictograms as Words

      • Christine Strothotte, Thomas Strothotte
      Pages 191-203

    4. Pictograms as Pictures

      • Christine Strothotte, Thomas Strothotte
      Pages 205-213

    5. Formal Representations and Informal Presentations

      • Christine Strothotte, Thomas Strothotte
      Pages 215-224

  6. Presentational Pictures

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 225-225
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    2. Image Generation

      • Christine Strothotte, Thomas Strothotte
      Pages 227-247
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About this book

Pictures are at the heart of how we communicate with computers, emblematic of our cur­ rent fascination with multimedia and web-based computing. Nevertheless, most of us know far less about pictures and the way in which they work than we know about the text that often accompanies them. In an attempt to understand pictures, perhaps the most fundamental question we can ask is, "What is a picture?" What is it that objects as di­ verse as icons, bar charts, paintings, and photographs have in common that makes us refer to all of them as pictures? And what is it about pictures that convinces us to use them instead of, or in addition to, text? We often talk about how pictures "depict" things. But, even the process of depiction seems to differ from one picture to another. On a computer, we may use a paint system to guide a virtual brush over the screen, a video camera to capture a live image, a spread­ sheet to automatically generate a corresponding bar chart, or a rendering system that models the interactions of synthetic lights, objects, and cameras. Is there some un­ derlying property that these processes all share? Computer scientists are used to thinking of pictures in terms of their representation: an array of pixels, a list or hierarchy of graphics primitives, or even a program written in a language such as PostScript.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Otto-von-Guericke University of Magdeburg, Magdeburg, Germany

    Christine Strothotte

  • Faculty of Computer Science, Otto-von-Guericke University of Magdeburg, Magdeburg, Germany

    Thomas Strothotte

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Seeing Between the Pixels

  • Book Subtitle: Pictures in Interactive Systems

  • Authors: Christine Strothotte, Thomas Strothotte

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-60361-7

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidleberg 1997

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-64370-5Published: 22 December 2011

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-60361-7Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIX, 380

  • Number of Illustrations: 52 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Image Processing and Computer Vision, Models and Principles, Artificial Intelligence, Computer Graphics

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