kcoleman@usc.edu
Graduate Research Scholar Program
University of Southern California School of Architecture

student:
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contact:

Alisa Slekys, M.Arch+2
Jungwook Jang, M.Arch+2
Karen Kensek

kensek@usc.edu

  RESEARCH summary 
title:
Techniques of Illustrating Missing Data
  Our purpose was to find examples of incomplete images/things, and invent multiple ways of illustrating their missing pieces. In creating our website (refer to link to the right) we asked the questions: How do you show data that is missing? What are possible methods for showing multiple reconstructions? How do you show how confident you are about parts of the reconstruction? From these questions, three categories were created on the website: Missing; Alternatives; Confidence. These are the title headings that organize our examples into classifications. There was no restriction to the types of images we could use as long as they contained missing data, so we used examples of incomplete buildings, artifacts, statues, drawings, pictures, mathematical formulas, and so on. By using photoshop and dreamweaver, we were able to “fill in” our interpretations of the incomplete areas using the particular techniques that we invented. For example, one technique is the use of a different color to indicate the reconstructed/interpreted area. These examples and techniques are much more clear to understand visually when one visits our website, listed to the right.




related link:

http://www-scf.usc.edu/~arch590/
ambiguity/ambiguity.html

 
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