We propose "aquanims" as new design metaphors for animated transitions that preserve displayed areas during the transformation. Animated transitions are used to facilitate understanding of graphical transformations between different visualizations. Area is key information to preserve during filtering or ordering transitions of area-based charts like bar charts, histograms, treemaps, or mosaic plots. As liquids are incompressible fluids, we use a hydraulic metaphor to convey the sense of area preservation during animated transitions: in aquanims, graphical objects can change shape, position, color, and even connectedness but not displayed area, as for a liquid contained in a transparent vessel or transferred between such vessels communicating through hidden pipes. We present various aquanims for product plots like bar charts and histograms to accommodate changes in data, in the ordering of bars or in a number of bins, and to provide animated tips. We also consider confusion matrices visualized as fluctuation diagrams and mosaic plots, and show how aquanims can be used to ease the understanding of different classification errors of real data.
翻译:我们建议“ quaims” 作为动画转换的新设计隐喻, 在转换过程中保存显示的区域。 动画转换用于促进理解不同可视化之间的图形转换。 区域是过滤或命令区域图表转换时保存的关键信息, 如条形图、 直方图、 树图或马赛克图。 由于液体是不可压缩的液体, 我们使用液压隐喻在动画过渡期间传达区域保护感: 在 图形对象中, 图形对象可以改变形状、 位置、 颜色, 甚至连通性, 但不能显示区域, 就象透明容器中所含的液体一样, 或者通过隐藏管道传输到这些容器之间的液体一样。 我们为产品图和直方图等产品图提供了各种方形, 以适应数据的变化, 在条形图或数箱中, 并提供模拟提示 。 我们还考虑将混乱矩阵作为波动图和马赛克图来显示混乱的矩阵, 并展示如何使用方形来帮助理解真实数据的不同分类错误 。