The authors investigated whether anomalous information in the periphery of a scene attracts saccades when the anomaly is not distinctive in its low-level visual properties. Subjects viewed color photographs for 8 s while their eye movements were monitored. Each subject saw 2 photographs of different scenes. One photograph was a control scene in which familiar objects appeared in their canonical...

In this paper, we consider the aesthetic criteria and constraints related to the layouts of UML sequence diagrams. We consider the applicability of the traditional graph drawing aesthetics in drawing sequence diagrams. Because of the special nature of sequence diagrams, many of these aesthetics are not applicable. Based on our view on how these diagrams are read or viewed, we propose some new a...

In this study, the Draw-A-Man Test was administered to 183 Iranian children, 96 boys and 87 girls from age of 36 to 119.5 months. The subjects were selected randomly from middle-class families in Tehran. The results show that younger Iranian children scored higher than the older ones. In addition to the age differential on performance, sex differences on drawing a man were tested by means ...

The drawing of lines on the computer has been an area of interest for several years. In the beginning, there were more practical reasons behind the development of line drawing algorithms (as for instence the rasterization of lines by Bresenham), later more esthetic reasons came into play. This article gives an overview of techniques for drawing lines with certain effects. A line in this context...