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In this chapter, we present a state of the art on glyph-based visualization techniques that address the complex challenges of multi-field visualization. Glyphs are discrete parametrized visualization objects that encode multiple data values based on appearance (i.e., visual channels) such as size, shape, color, and opacity, and are effective for conveying multiple fields of data simultaneously. We provide a categorization of these techniques with the aim for an informative overview of recent literature. Our categorization is based on visual channels utilized by the glyph for mapping each data attribute, and the spatial dimensionality of the glyph-based visualization. We also discuss critical design aspects of glyph-based visualization to deal with the perceptual challenges inherent with this approach.
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Chung, D.H., Laramee, R.S., Kehrer, J., Hauser, H. (2014). Glyph-Based Multi-field Visualization. In: Hansen, C., Chen, M., Johnson, C., Kaufman, A., Hagen, H. (eds) Scientific Visualization. Mathematics and Visualization. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-6497-5_13
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