Energy Aware Color Sets

Energy Aware Color Sets

Abstract

We present a design technique for colors with the purpose of lowering the energy consumption of the display device. Our approach is based on a screen space variant energy model. The result of our design is a set of distinguishable iso-lightness colors guided by perceptual principles. We present two variations of our approach. One is based on a set of discrete user-named (categorical) colors, which are analyzed according to their energy consumption. The second is based on the constrained continuous optimization of color energy in the perceptually uniform CIELAB color space. We quantitatively compare our two approaches with a traditional choice of colors, demonstrating that we typically save approximately 40 percent of the energy. The color sets are applied to examples from the 2D visualization of nominal data and volume rendering of 3D scalar fields.

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(56 out of 243 accepted)

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Authors
  • Chuang, Johnson
  • Weiskopf, Daniel
  • Möller, Torsten
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Supplemental Material
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Category
Journal Paper
Divisions
Visualization and Data Analysis
Journal or Publication Title
Computer Graphics Forum: the international journal of the Eurographics Association
ISSN
0167-7055
Publisher
Blackwell Publishing Ltd.
Page Range
pp. 203-211
Number
2
Volume
28
Date
November 2009
Official URL
http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~torsten/Publications/Papers/...
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