A Flexible Pipeline to Create Different Types of Data Physicalizations
Alexandre Abreu de Freitas, Walbert Cunha Monteiro, Thiago Augusto Soares de Sousa, Vinicius Favacho Queiroz, Tiago Davi Oliveira de Araujo, Bianchi Serique Meiguins · 2022
The process of creating physical data visualizations is not a trivial task. In general, it may require skills from the user in information visualization, tangible interaction, 3D modeling, fabrication of physical objects, etc. In addition, few works have presented computational support to the entire digital and physical rendering pipeline of data visualization, characterizing many steps of this process as manual. From this context, this work presents a process that facilitates the generation of physical data visualization. Besides that, It allows one to define which type of physical visualization to create, among passive, rearrangeable, and dynamic physicalization types. Finally, the pipelines for each physicalization type are presented, with scenarios including physical bar charts, stacked bar charts, and grouped bar charts.