Iowa State University Capstones, Theses and Graduate Theses and Dissertations Dissertations 2010 Contextual self-organizing maps for visual design space exploration Brett ekN olny Iowa State University Follow this and additional works at: https://lib.dr.iastate.edu/etd Part of the Mechanical Engineering Commons Recommended Citation Nekolny, Brett, "Contextual self-organizing maps for visual design space exploration" (2010). Graduate Theses and Dissertations. 11788. https://lib.dr.iastate.edu/etd/11788 This Thesis is brought to you for free and open access by the Iowa State University Capstones, Theses and Dissertations at Iowa State University Digital Repository. It has been accepted for inclusion in Graduate Theses and Dissertations by an authorized administrator of Iowa State University Digital Repository. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. Contextual self-organizing maps for visual design space exploration by Brett Matthew Nekolny A thesis submitted to the graduate faculty in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of MASTER OF SCIENCE Co-majors: Human Computer Interaction; Mechanical Engineering Program of Study Committee: Eliot Winer, Major Professor Amy Kaleita Song Zhang Iowa State University Ames, Iowa 2010 Copyright © Brett Matthew Nekolny, 2010. All rights reserved ii TABLE OF CONTENTS 1 INTRODUCTION 1 1.1 PURPOSE 1 1.2 DESIGN SPACE 1 1.3 OPTIMIZATION 4 1.4 DESIGN AND OPTIMIZATION AND VISUALIZATION 6 1.5 MOTIVATION 7 1.6 THESIS ORGANIZATION 8 2 BACKGROUND 9 2.1 OPTIMIZATION VISUALIZATION