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Diagrams and Nonmonotonic Logic: What Is the Cognitive Relation? Read chapter Read first chapter

2018 | OriginalPaper | Chapter

Variational Pictures

Authors : Martin Erwig, Karl Smeltzer

Published in: Diagrammatic Representation and Inference

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

Diagrams and pictures are a powerful medium to communicate ideas, designs, and art. However, authors of pictures are forced to use rudimentary and ad hoc techniques in managing multiple variants of their creations, such as copying and renaming files or abusing layers in an advanced graphical editing tool. We propose a model of variational pictures as a basis for the design of editors and other tools for managing variation in pictures. This model enjoys a number of theoretical properties that support exploratory graphical design and can help systematize picture creators’ workflows.

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Footnotes
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This generality follows from the fact that our picture model doesn’t require a notion of connectedness.
 
2
Since regions are derived from the pixel types, such region pairs do not necessarily occur in any particular geometric relationship. However, such region pairs typically result from editor actions that create one choice area within another.
 
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There are situations in which other transformations, such as https://static-content.springer.com/image/chp%3A10.1007%2F978-3-319-91376-6_9/454063_1_En_9_IEq159_HTML.gif may be more appropriate, but the point is that a region refinement is easy to achieve.
 
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Metadata
Title
Variational Pictures
Authors
Martin Erwig
Karl Smeltzer
Copyright Year
2018
Book
Diagrammatic Representation and Inference

Print ISBN: 978-3-319-91375-9

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-319-91376-6

Copyright Year: 2018

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-91376-6_9