Ebook: Knowledge Visualization Currents: From Text to Art to Culture

This text reviews the evolution of the field of visualization, providing innovative examples from various disciplines, highlighting the important role that visualization plays in extracting and organizing the concepts found in complex data. Features: presents a thorough introduction to the discipline of knowledge visualization, its current state of affairs and possible future developments; examines how tables have been used for information visualization in historical textual documents; discusses the application of visualization techniques for knowledge transfer in business relationships, and for the linguistic exploration and analysis of sensory descriptions; investigates the use of visualization to understand orchestral music scores, the optical theory behind Renaissance art, and to assist in the reconstruction of an historic church; describes immersive 360 degree stereographic visualization, knowledge-embedded embodied interaction, and a novel methodology for the analysis of architectural forms.

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Lying at the intersection of education, art, and cultural heritage, visualization is a powerful tool for representing and interpreting complex information.

This unique text/reference reviews the evolution of the field of visualization, providing innovative examples of applied knowledge visualization from disciplines as varied as law, business management, the arts and humanities. With coverage of theoretical and practical aspects of visualization from ancient Sumerian tablets through to twenty-first century legal contracts, this work underscores the important role that the process of visualization plays in extracting, organizing, and crystallizing the concepts found in complex data.

Topics and features:

• Contains contributions from an international selection of preeminent authorities
• Presents a thorough introduction to the discipline of knowledge visualization, its current state of affairs and possible future developments
• Examines how tables have been used for information visualization in historical textual documents
• Discusses the application of visualization techniques for knowledge transfer in business relationships, and for the linguistic exploration and analysis of sensory descriptions
• Investigates the use of visualization to understand orchestral music scores, the optical theory behind Renaissance art, and to assist in the reconstruction of an historic church
• Describes immersive 360 degree stereographic visualization, knowledge-embedded embodied interaction, and a novel methodology for the analysis of architectural forms

This interdisciplinary collection of the state of the art in knowledge visualization will be of considerable interest to researchers from a broad spectrum of backgrounds in both industry and academia.

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Lying at the intersection of education, art, and cultural heritage, visualization is a powerful tool for representing and interpreting complex information.

This unique text/reference reviews the evolution of the field of visualization, providing innovative examples of applied knowledge visualization from disciplines as varied as law, business management, the arts and humanities. With coverage of theoretical and practical aspects of visualization from ancient Sumerian tablets through to twenty-first century legal contracts, this work underscores the important role that the process of visualization plays in extracting, organizing, and crystallizing the concepts found in complex data.

Topics and features:

• Contains contributions from an international selection of preeminent authorities
• Presents a thorough introduction to the discipline of knowledge visualization, its current state of affairs and possible future developments
• Examines how tables have been used for information visualization in historical textual documents
• Discusses the application of visualization techniques for knowledge transfer in business relationships, and for the linguistic exploration and analysis of sensory descriptions
• Investigates the use of visualization to understand orchestral music scores, the optical theory behind Renaissance art, and to assist in the reconstruction of an historic church
• Describes immersive 360 degree stereographic visualization, knowledge-embedded embodied interaction, and a novel methodology for the analysis of architectural forms

This interdisciplinary collection of the state of the art in knowledge visualization will be of considerable interest to researchers from a broad spectrum of backgrounds in both industry and academia.

Content:
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
What Is an Effective Knowledge Visualization? Insights from a Review of Seminal Concepts....Pages 3-12
What Is Knowledge Visualization? Eight Reflections on an Evolving Discipline....Pages 13-32
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Tables and Early Information Visualization....Pages 35-61
Contract Clarity and Usability through Visualization....Pages 63-84
From Culture to Text to Interactive Visualization ofWine Reviews....Pages 85-110
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Colorscore: Visualization and Condensation of Structure of Classical Music....Pages 113-128
The Implications of David Hockney Thesis for 3D Computer Graphics....Pages 129-145
Practice of Using Virtual Reconstruction in the Restoration of Monumental Painting of the Church of the Transfiguration of Our Saviour on Nereditsa Hill....Pages 147-164
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Mediation of Knowledge Construction of Historic Sites: Embodied Interaction + Space....Pages 167-177
Memory, Difference, and Information: Generative Architectures Latent to Material and Perceptual Plasticity....Pages 179-197
Cultural Data Sculpting: Omnidirectional Visualization for Cultural Datasets....Pages 199-220
Back Matter....Pages 214-214

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Lying at the intersection of education, art, and cultural heritage, visualization is a powerful tool for representing and interpreting complex information.

This unique text/reference reviews the evolution of the field of visualization, providing innovative examples of applied knowledge visualization from disciplines as varied as law, business management, the arts and humanities. With coverage of theoretical and practical aspects of visualization from ancient Sumerian tablets through to twenty-first century legal contracts, this work underscores the important role that the process of visualization plays in extracting, organizing, and crystallizing the concepts found in complex data.

Topics and features:

• Contains contributions from an international selection of preeminent authorities
• Presents a thorough introduction to the discipline of knowledge visualization, its current state of affairs and possible future developments
• Examines how tables have been used for information visualization in historical textual documents
• Discusses the application of visualization techniques for knowledge transfer in business relationships, and for the linguistic exploration and analysis of sensory descriptions
• Investigates the use of visualization to understand orchestral music scores, the optical theory behind Renaissance art, and to assist in the reconstruction of an historic church
• Describes immersive 360 degree stereographic visualization, knowledge-embedded embodied interaction, and a novel methodology for the analysis of architectural forms

This interdisciplinary collection of the state of the art in knowledge visualization will be of considerable interest to researchers from a broad spectrum of backgrounds in both industry and academia.

Content:
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
What Is an Effective Knowledge Visualization? Insights from a Review of Seminal Concepts....Pages 3-12
What Is Knowledge Visualization? Eight Reflections on an Evolving Discipline....Pages 13-32
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Tables and Early Information Visualization....Pages 35-61
Contract Clarity and Usability through Visualization....Pages 63-84
From Culture to Text to Interactive Visualization ofWine Reviews....Pages 85-110
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Colorscore: Visualization and Condensation of Structure of Classical Music....Pages 113-128
The Implications of David Hockney Thesis for 3D Computer Graphics....Pages 129-145
Practice of Using Virtual Reconstruction in the Restoration of Monumental Painting of the Church of the Transfiguration of Our Saviour on Nereditsa Hill....Pages 147-164
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Mediation of Knowledge Construction of Historic Sites: Embodied Interaction + Space....Pages 167-177
Memory, Difference, and Information: Generative Architectures Latent to Material and Perceptual Plasticity....Pages 179-197
Cultural Data Sculpting: Omnidirectional Visualization for Cultural Datasets....Pages 199-220
Back Matter....Pages 214-214
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