Information visualization

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1. dwringerAug 2017
   That seems like a very interesting and useful application of theories in pre-attentive processing. When everything is aligned to the same orientation then the attribute of orientation may become almost effortless to perceive and cognitive resources can be devoted to more targeted feature recognition. There is a section of chapter 5 in the book "Information Visualization: Perception for Design" by Colin Ware [1] called "preattentive processing and ease of search" that goes into nice detail on considerations such as this. (See also [2])

   [1] https://www.amazon.com/Information-Visualization-Third-Inter...

   [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pre-attentive_processing

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2. saintxApr 2013
   Seeing people reason about this subject in the main article and the subsequent comments brings me back to my college "literary theory" courses. Instead of tossing up pithy declarative statements like "The best X is no X", or "The best Y is as little Y as possible", and then commenting on how these statements strike our intuition, we can bypass the literary methods in favor of scientific ones.

   There's an entire body of research on visual design (a great introduction to which is Colin Ware's "Information Visualization") that gets right down to the nitty gritty details of human perception, like eye tracking speed, visual channel capacity, move and scan loops, visual working memory, the relationship between luminance channels, motion and shape as opposed to color channels, and on and on and on.

   It turns out that "good" design principles can be quantified, communicated, taught, and learned, are based on our common biology, and that they needn't come at the expense of aesthetics or sound reasoning.

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3. ljegouNov 2010
   The best (scientifically sound and recent) information about color perception i found is in Colin Ware books :

   - Information Visualization : perception for design (chapter 4 about color)

   - Visual Thinking (more accessible).

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