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arXiv:1808.01031 (cs)
[Submitted on 2 Aug 2018 (v1), last revised 6 Sep 2018 (this version, v3)]

Title:Perception of Symmetries in Drawings of Graphs

Authors:Felice De Luca, Stephen Kobourov, Helen Purchase
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Abstract:Symmetry is an important factor in human perception in general, as well as in the visualization of graphs in particular. There are three main types of symmetry: reflective, translational, and rotational. We report the results of a human subjects experiment to determine what types of symmetries are more salient in drawings of graphs. We found statistically significant evidence that vertical reflective symmetry is the most dominant (when selecting among vertical reflective, horizontal reflective, and translational). We also found statistically significant evidence that rotational symmetry is affected by the number of radial axes (the more, the better), with a notable exception at four axes.
Comments: Appears in the Proceedings of the 26th International Symposium on Graph Drawing and Network Visualization (GD 2018)
Subjects: Computational Geometry (cs.CG)
Cite as: arXiv:1808.01031 [cs.CG]
  (or arXiv:1808.01031v3 [cs.CG] for this version)
  https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.1808.01031

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From: Felice De Luca [view email]
[v1] Thu, 2 Aug 2018 21:47:50 UTC (899 KB)
[v2] Wed, 22 Aug 2018 16:53:58 UTC (6,922 KB)
[v3] Thu, 6 Sep 2018 16:00:18 UTC (6,922 KB)
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