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The Effects of Dimensionality in Computer Graphics

San Diego State University

A laboratory experiment investigated how the dimensionality of computer- generated graphs affects users' abilities to extract information from the graphs. Two-dimensional graphs were found to be more reliable in communicating infor mation quickly and accurately than corresponding three-dimensional graphs. A surprising finding was that a commonly used, but technically incorrect, three- dimensional graph performed better than its corrected version.

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