Providing Automatic Graphic Displays through Defaults.
Gananmgari,Sakunthala, N. I. Badler, Morgan,H L, Bonnie Webber · Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC) · 1980
This paper addresses the problems in providing graphic displays automatically to serve a user naive with respect to computer graphic devices. It identifies the properties of data that affect graphic representation and presents a formalism in which to view them. It also discusses and illustrates the selection of various graphic formats based on the data to be represented, its properties, and graphic device characteristics. (Author)