Variations and application conditions of the data type image [Elektronische Ressource] : the foundation of computational visualistics / von: Jörg R.J. Schirra

Variations and Application Conditions Of the Data Type »Image« The Foundation of Computational Visualistics Habilitationsschrift zur Erlangung der Venia legendi für Computervisualistik (computational visualistics) angenommen durch die Fakultät für Informatik der Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg von: Dr. rer. nat. Jörg R.J. Schirra (Dipl.-Inform.) geb. am 03. August 1960 in Illingen (Saarland) Gutachter: Prof. Dr. Thomas Strothotte Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Wahlster Prof. Dr. Arno Ros Prof. Dr. Jerome A. Feldman Magdeburg, den 11. Mai 2005 THE FOUNDATION OF COMPUTATIONAL VISUALISTICS i A NOTE AHEAD This book is a map. It maps the landscapes of the country of digital images, or, as it was lately renamed, the realms of Computational Visualistics. Like any picture, a map – and hence this book – is a context builder: it allows the readers to ex-plore different paths in an abstract region, to connect many landmarks on several ways, and to establish their own distinctions of figures and backgrounds according to their proper interests. However, a text is bound to its linear progression of propositions woven into the digital fabric of argumentation that only mimics the true spatial quality of images.