Marks, JoeBeardsley, PaulAndalman, BradFreeman, WilliamGibson, SarahHodgins, JessicaKang, ThomasMirtich, BrianPfister, HanspeterRuml, WheelerSeims, JoshuaGoodridge, Andrew2008-11-181997J. Marks, P. Beardsley, B. Andalman, B. Freeman, S. Gibson, J. Hodgins, T. Kang, B. Mirtich, H. Pfister, W. Ruml, J. Seims, and S. M. Shieber. Design galleries: A general approach to setting parameters for computer graphics and animation. In Proceedings of SIGGRAPH 97, pages 389-400, Los Angeles, CA, 1997.http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:2265285Image rendering maps scene parameters to output pixel values; animation maps motion-control parameters to trajectory values. Because these mapping functions are usually multidimensional, nonlinear, and discontinuous, finding input parameters that yield desirable output values is often a painful process of manual tweaking. Interactive evolution and inverse design are two general methodologies for computer-assisted parameter setting in which the computer plays a prominent role. In this paper we present another such methodology: Design Gallery TM (DG) interfaces present the user with the broadest selection--- automatically generated and organized--- of perceptually different graphics or animations that can be produced by varying a given input-parameter vector. The principal technical challenges posed by the DG approach are dispersion, finding a set of input-parameter vectors that optimally disperses the resulting output-value vectors, and arrangement, organizing the resulting graphics for easy and intuitive browsing by the user. We describe the use of DGs for several parametersetting problems: light selection and placement for image rendering, both standard and image-based; opacity and color transfer-function specification for volume rendering; and motion control for particle-system and articulated-figure animation.en-US10.1145/258734.258887