Aquanims -- Area-Preserving Animated Transitions based on a Hydraulic Metaphor
arXiv:2011.07532v1
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This addresses the challenge of maintaining visual consistency during transitions in data visualization, but it appears incremental as it builds on existing animated transition methods.
The authors tackled the problem of creating animated transitions that preserve displayed areas in rectangle-based charts, resulting in the proposal of 'Aquanims' as a new design metaphor based on a hydraulic metaphor.
We propose "Aquanims" as new design metaphors for animated transitions that preserve displayed areas during the transformation. As liquids are incompressible fluids, we use a hydraulic metaphor to convey the sense of area preservation during animated transitions. We study the design space of Aquanims for rectangle-based charts.