Recognizing graphic objects from binary images is an important task in many real-life applications. Generally, there are two ways to do the graphics recognition: onestep methods and two-step methods. The former recognizes graphic objects from binary images directly, while the latter consists of vectorization and postprocessing. Neither of them is perfect enough to handle all difficulties. This ...

Charles Joseph Minard is most widely known for a single work-his poignant flowmap depiction ofthe fate ofNapoleon's GrandArmy in the disastrous Russian campaign of 1812. In fact, Minard was a true pioneer in thematic cartography and in statistical graphics; he developed many novel graphic forms to depict data, always with the goal to let the data "speak to the eyes." This article reviews Minard...

teaches graphic design at Yale and is well qualified to write and illustrate a book about graphic design, the often overlooked component of technical writing which accompanies text, photographs , and drawings. He is also the founder of Graphics Press. Tufte starts his book with historical and recent examples of graphic excellence: age-adjusted cancer rates for every county in the contiguous Uni...

The sectioned images and surface models of a cadaver head in the Visible Korean Project would be more beneficial if they were accessible and informative. To this aim, 3 policies were established: (1) the data are promptly obtainable and observable; (2) the graphic data are accompanied by explaining the anatomic terms; and (3) two-dimensional images and three-dimensional models are shown togethe...

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Computer Aided Architectural Design systems offer a broad scope of drawing and modeling techniques for the designer. Nevertheless, they offer limited support for the early phases of the design process. One reason is that the level of abstraction is too low: the user can define walls and such in great precision, but no support is offered to define global or structural characteristics of the desi...

The transition from traditional graphics into computer graphics over the past decade has brought about a multitude of changes that graphics educator’s and other graphics professionals have had to address and incorporate. The ever evolving integration of Computer Aided Design (CAD) in architecture and engineering have revolutionized the design and documentation process. In the graphic communicat...

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This draft deals with the Indexing and Retrieval (I & R) of graphic document images. We present first a general introduction on this topic and review then the main existing systems in the literature. Based on this review, we conclude on the unadaptability of existing systems to solve real-life indexing problems. We propose then a new system scheme based on three characteristics : a formalism al...