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Wanderlust: 3D Impressionism in Human Journeys

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Abstract

The movements of individuals are fundamental to building and maintaining social connections. This pictorial presents Wanderlust, an experimental three-dimensional data visualization on the universal visitation pattern revealed from large-scale mobile phone tracking data. It explores ways of visualizing recurrent flows and the attractive places they implied. Inspired by the 19th-century art movement Impressionism, we develop a multi-layered effect, an impression, of mountains emerging from consolidated flows, to capture the essence of human journeys and urban spatial structure.

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@article{arxiv.2109.00058,
  title  = {Wanderlust: 3D Impressionism in Human Journeys},
  author = {Guangyu Du and Lei Dong and Fabio Duarte and Carlo Ratti},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2109.00058},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

IEEE VIS Arts Program (VISAP) 2021, pictorial, 14 pages

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