title: Caricaturistic visualization.
abstract: Caricatures are pieces of art depicting persons or sociological conditions in a non-veridical way. In both cases caricatures are referring to a reference model. The deviations from the reference model are the characteristic features of the depicted subject. Good caricatures exaggerate the characteristics of a subject in order to accent them. The concept of caricaturistic visualization is based on the caricature metaphor. The aim of caricaturistic visualization is an illustrative depiction of characteristics of a given dataset by exaggerating deviations from the reference model. We present the general concept of caricaturistic visualization as well as a variety of examples. We investigate different visual representations for the depiction of caricatures. Further, we present the caricature matrix, a technique to make differences between datasets easily identifiable.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Computer Graphics and Algorithms, Vienna University of Technology, Austria. rautek@cg.tuwien.ac.at
authors.forename: Peter
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Rautek
authors.forename: Ivan
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Viola
authors.forename: M Eduard
authors.initials: ME
authors.lastname: Gröller
mesh_terms: D003196:Computer Graphics; D005145:Face / Q000033:anatomy & histology*; D005149:Facial Expression; D006801:Humans; D007089:Image Enhancement / Q000379:methods*; D007090:Image Interpretation, Computer-Assisted / Q000379:methods*; D021621:Imaging, Three-Dimensional / Q000379:methods*; D013382:Subtraction Technique; D014584:User-Computer Interface