Efficient Cartogram Generation: A Comparison Export

@inproceedings{citeulike:3788715, abstract = {Cartograms are a well-known technique for showing geography-related statistical information, such as population demographics and epidemiological data. The basic idea is to distort a map by resizing its regions according to a statistical parameter, but in a way that keeps the map recognizable. In this paper, we deal with the problem of making continuous cartograms that strictly retain the topology of the input mesh. We compare two algorithms to solve the continuous cartogram problem. The first one uses an iterative relocation of the vertices based on scanlines. The second one is based on the Gridfit technique, which uses pixel-based distortion based on a quadtree-like data structure.}, address = {Los Alamitos, CA, USA}, author = {Keim, Daniel A. and North, Stephen C. and Panse, Christian and Schneidewind, J\"{o}rn}, booktitle = {IEEE Symposium on Information Visualization}, citeulike-article-id = {3788715}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/INFVIS.2002.1173144}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/INFVIS.2002.1173144}, doi = {10.1109/INFVIS.2002.1173144}, issn = {1522-404X}, journal = {Information Visualization, IEEE Symposium on}, keywords = {algorithm, cartogram, mapping}, posted-at = {2009-05-13 22:16:20}, priority = {4}, publisher = {IEEE Computer Society}, title = {Efficient Cartogram Generation: A Comparison}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/INFVIS.2002.1173144}, volume = {0}, year = {2002} }

TY - CONF ID - citeulike:3788715 L3 - citeulike-article-id:3788715 N2 - Cartograms are a well-known technique for showing geography-related statistical information, such as population demographics and epidemiological data. The basic idea is to distort a map by resizing its regions according to a statistical parameter, but in a way that keeps the map recognizable. In this paper, we deal with the problem of making continuous cartograms that strictly retain the topology of the input mesh. We compare two algorithms to solve the continuous cartogram problem. The first one uses an iterative relocation of the vertices based on scanlines. The second one is based on the Gridfit technique, which uses pixel-based distortion based on a quadtree-like data structure. JF - Information Visualization, IEEE Symposium on SN - 1522-404X AD - Los Alamitos, CA, USA TI - Efficient Cartogram Generation: A Comparison PB - IEEE Computer Society VL - 0 T2 - IEEE Symposium on Information Visualization KW - algorithm KW - cartogram KW - mapping AU - Keim, Daniel AU - North, Stephen AU - Panse, Christian AU - Schneidewind, Jörn PY - 2002/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/INFVIS.2002.1173144 ER -