Data to Physicalization: A Survey of the Physical Rendering Process

Physical representations of data offer physical and spatial ways of looking at, navigating, and interacting with data. While digital fabrication has facilitated the creation of objects with data‐driven geometry, rendering data as a physically fabricated object is still a daunting leap for many physi...

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Published in:Computer graphics forum Vol. 40; no. 3; pp. 569 - 598
Main Authors: Djavaherpour, H., Samavati, F., Mahdavi‐Amiri, A., Yazdanbakhsh, F., Huron, S., Levy, R., Jansen, Y., Oehlberg, L.
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: Oxford Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.06.2021
Wiley
Subjects:
Artists
CCS Concepts
Computer Science
Design
Graphics
Human-Computer Interaction
Human‐centered computing → Visualization techniques
Rendering
ISSN:0167-7055, 1467-8659
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Summary:Physical representations of data offer physical and spatial ways of looking at, navigating, and interacting with data. While digital fabrication has facilitated the creation of objects with data‐driven geometry, rendering data as a physically fabricated object is still a daunting leap for many physicalization designers. Rendering in the scope of this research refers to the back‐and‐forth process from digital design to digital fabrication and its specific challenges. We developed a corpus of example data physicalizations from research literature and physicalization practice. This survey then unpacks the “rendering” phase of the extended InfoVis pipeline in greater detail through these examples, with the aim of identifying ways that researchers, artists, and industry practitioners “render” physicalizations using digital design and fabrication tools.
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ISSN:0167-7055
1467-8659
DOI:10.1111/cgf.14330