Physical representations of data offer physical and spatial ways of looking at, navigating, and interacting with data. While digital fabrication has facilitated the creation of objects with data-driven geometry, rendering data as a physically fabricated object is still a daunting leap for many physicalization designers. Rendering in the scope of this research refers to the back-and-forth process from digital design to digital fabrication and its specific challenges. We developed a corpus of example data physicalizations from research literature and physicalization practice. This survey then unpacks the "rendering" phase of the extended InfoVis pipeline in greater detail through these examples, with the aim of identifying ways that researchers, artists, and industry practitioners "render" physicalizations using digital design and fabrication tools.

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数据物理化：物理渲染过程的调查

数据的物理表示提供了查看和导航数据以及与数据交互的物理和空间方式。尽管数字制造促进了具有数据驱动的几何形状的对象的创建，但是将数据呈现为物理制造的对象仍然是许多物理设计人员的艰巨任务。本研究范围内的渲染是指从数字设计到数字制造的往返过程及其特定挑战。我们从研究文献和物理化实践中开发了示例数据物理化的语料库。然后，通过这些示例，本次调查更详细地分析了扩展的InfoVis管道的“渲染”阶段，目的是确定研究人员，艺术家和行业从业人员“渲染”的方式。