Variational Pictures

Diagrams and pictures are a powerful medium to communicate ideas, designs, and art. However, authors of pictures are forced to use rudimentary and ad hoc techniques in managing multiple variants of their creations, such as copying and renaming files or abusing layers in an advanced graphical editing...

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Published inDiagrammatic Representation and Inference Vol. 10871; pp. 55 - 70
Main Authors Erwig, Martin, Smeltzer, Karl
Format Book Chapter
LanguageEnglish
Published Switzerland Springer International Publishing AG 2018
Springer International Publishing
SeriesLecture Notes in Computer Science
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ISBN9783319913759
3319913751
ISSN0302-9743
1611-3349
DOI10.1007/978-3-319-91376-6_9

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Summary:Diagrams and pictures are a powerful medium to communicate ideas, designs, and art. However, authors of pictures are forced to use rudimentary and ad hoc techniques in managing multiple variants of their creations, such as copying and renaming files or abusing layers in an advanced graphical editing tool. We propose a model of variational pictures as a basis for the design of editors and other tools for managing variation in pictures. This model enjoys a number of theoretical properties that support exploratory graphical design and can help systematize picture creators’ workflows.
Bibliography:This work is partially supported by the National Science Foundation under the grants IIS-1314384 and CCF-1717300.
ISBN:9783319913759
3319913751
ISSN:0302-9743
1611-3349
DOI:10.1007/978-3-319-91376-6_9