Visualization of Wine Attributes

• Main Author: Mei, Yuanxun
• Format: Others
• Language: English
• Published: Växjö universitet, Matematiska och systemtekniska institutionen 2009
• Subjects: Visualization; Fingerprint; Visual representations; Wine; Hierarchical structures; Treemaps; Computer Sciences; Datavetenskap (datalogi)
• Online Access: http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:vxu:diva-6159

As the development of the Internet and the rapid increase of data, information visualization is becoming more and more popular. Since human eyes receive visual information very quick and easy, the visualization can make complex and large data more understandable. Describing sensory perceptions, such as taste, is a challenging task. For a customer, the visualization of the taste of a specific wine together with the other wine attributes such as color and grape type would help him/her choose the right one.    In the thesis, two suitable representations of wine attributes are implemented. And, the final system contains two parts. One is a user interface generating his/her fingerprint based on the two representations. The other one is generating the fingerprints of all wines in a database, and save these fingerprints as images. If the user compares his/her wine fingerpr