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most citedThe Aesthetics of Astrophysics: How to Make Appealing Color-Composite Images that Convey the Science

11 citations · 26 across the 5 of their papers we have counts for

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6 papers

astro-ph.IM2020★ 6 cited

Holding the Cosmos in Your Hand: Developing 3D Modeling and Printing Pipelines for Communications and Research

Kimberly Kowal Arcand, Sara Rose Price, Megan Watzke

Three-dimensional (3D) visualization has opened up a Universe of possible scientific data representations. 3D printing has the potential to make seemingly abstract and esoteric dat…

astro-ph.IM2019

Touching the stars: improving NASA 3D printed data sets with blind and visually impaired audiences

Kimberly Kowal Arcand, April Jubett, Megan Watzke +3

Astronomy has been an inherently visual area of science for millenia, yet a majority of its significant discoveries take place in wavelengths beyond human vision. There are many pe…

astro-ph.IM2018★ 8 cited

Walking Through an Exploded Star: Rendering Supernova Remnant Cassiopeia A into Virtual Reality

Kimberly K. Arcand, Elaine Jiang, Sara Price +3

NASA and other astrophysical data of the Cassiopeia A supernova remnant have been rendered into a three-dimensional virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) program, the fir…

astro-ph.IM2017★ 11 cited

The Aesthetics of Astrophysics: How to Make Appealing Color-Composite Images that Convey the Science

Travis A. Rector, Zoltan G. Levay, Lisa M. Frattare +2

Astronomy has a rich tradition of using color photography and imaging, for visualization in research as well as for sharing scientific discoveries in formal and informal education…

cs.HC2014

Examining Perceptions of Astronomy Images Across Mobile Platforms

Lisa F. Smith, Kimberly K. Arcand, Jeffrey K. Smith +3

Modern society has led many people to become consumers of data unlike previous generations. How this shift in the way information is communicated and received - including in areas…

astro-ph.IM2013★ 1 cited

Processing Color in Astronomical Imagery

Kimberly K. Arcand, Megan Watzke, Travis Rector +3

Every year, hundreds of images from telescopes on the ground and in space are released to the public, making their way into popular culture through everything from computer screens…