Data to Physicalization: A Survey of the Physical Rendering Process

Physical representations of data offer physical and spatial ways looking at, navigating, interacting with data. While digital fabrication has facilitated the creation objects data-driven geometry, rendering as a physically fabricated object is still daunting leap for many physicalization designers. Rendering in scope this research refers to back-and-forth process from design its specific challenges. We developed corpus example physicalizations literature practice. This survey then unpacks “rendering” phase extended InfoVis pipeline greater detail through these examples, aim identifying that researchers, artists, industry practitioners “render” using tools.