Glyph

anaglyph
[map display] A stereo image made by superimposing two images of the same area. The images are displayed in complementary colors, usually red and blue or green.

Anaglyph images have seen a recent resurgence due to the presentation of images on the internet.

In addition to icons, OOUI's use "glyphs," which are graphical objects controlled by programs to perform specific functions. The best examples of glyphs are in screen savers.

The technique described here works for displaying data using any kind of "glyph" whatsoever. It is an amazingly powerful visualization tool.

For instance, glyphs might be used to indicate a fire location rather than number of pixels beyond the threshold value. Color selection and provision of contextual information such as political boundaries must also be considered.

Applications for Microsoft Windows that use the Windows Presentation Foundation, included with the OS since Windows Vista, may place glyphs freely.

Maplex for ArcGIS supports multiple languages, characters, and glyphs, including languages that read in a right-to-left direction.

The vector data is created from three g3d maps. Each map represents a vector component. So x, y and z components are required in this order! This data can be visualized with Glyph3d or StreamTracer filters within Paraview.

See also: Information, GIS, Location, Geographic, Map