Publication ● 2016
VIS4DH: 1st Workshop on Visualization for the Digital Humanities at IEEE VIS

Visualizing the spatiality in fictional narratives

This work is part of ongoing research on the visualization of spatial relationships in fictional works. Our aim is to arrive at aesthetic representations of fictional narratives set in actual places such as cities. Novel City Maps offers two map views, one inspired by transit maps and the other by conventional street maps. The former uses the aesthetic of abstract transit maps to reveal the co-occurrence structures between important places in a story. The street map view is designed as a spatial fingerprint of a novel by highlighting the places occurring often in the story.

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Novel City Maps

A Poetic View on the City