Chunky Chains: Graph Drawings on Small Screens

Spatial color co-occurrence graphs are inspired by Art Palette, a tool for searching art collections for artworks that match a certain color combination. Our use case, however, is different. We are interested in colors that often occur in close proximity to each other.

Artist Title Year 16 Colors 24 Colors 32 Colors 64 Colors
Hieronymus Bosch The Garden of Earthly Delights (Center Panel) 1500/1505 show show show show
Johannes Vermeer Girl Reading a Letter by an Open Window ca. 1659 show show show show
Caspar David Friedrich The Watzmann 1824/25 show show show show
Hokusai Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji: The Great Wave Off the Coast of Kanagawa ca. 1830/31 show show show show
unknown Watercolour Portrait of Ada King, Countess of Lovelace 1840 show show show show
Albert Bierstadt California Spring 1875 show show show show
Claude Monet Banks of the Seine, Vétheuil 1880 show show show show
Vincent van Gogh Starry Night Over the Rhône 1888 show show show show
Vincent van Gogh The Sower at Sunset 1888 show show show show
Vincent van Gogh The Church in Auvers-sur-Oise, View from the Chevet 1890 show show show show
Henri Matisse Still Life with Asphodels 1907 show show show show
Franz Marc The Bewitched Mill 1913 show show show show
Candido Portinari Forest III 1938 show show show show
Frida Kahlo Untitled (Self-portrait With Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird) 1940 show show show show
Jackson Pollock Blue Poles 1952 show show show show
Charmion von Wiegand The Sign of Keeping Still 1953 show show show show
Gerhard Richter Breath (Atem) 1989 show show show show
Bridget Riley Conversation 1992 show show show show
Zdzisław Beksiński No Title. 1993 show show show show

Note that k colors in the table means that the quantization algorithm was instructed to reduce the image to at most k colors. With additional filtering, the final graph usually has much fewer vertices.