Form Follows Function: Aesthetic Interactive Labels

Labels effectively convey co-referential relations between textual and visual elements and are a powerful tool to support learning tasks. Therefore, almost all illustrations in scientific or technical documents employ a large number of labels. This paper introduces a novel approach to integrate internal and external labels into projections of complex 3D models in the fashion of hand-made illustrations. The real-time label layout algorithms proposed in the paper balance a number of conflicting requirements such as unambiguity, readability, aesthetic considerations and frame-coherency.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2005
• Where: CAE
• Authors: Timo Götzelmann, Kamran Ali, Knut Hartmann, Thomas Strothotte
• Keywords: CAE 2005, CAE 2007, External Labels, Label, Label Layout Algorithms