Interactive lens visualization techniques

Author

Shaw, Christopher D. ; Hall, James A. ; Ebert, David S. ; Roberts, D. Aaron

Author_Institution

Regina Univ., Sask., Canada

fYear

1999

fDate

29-29 Oct. 1999

Firstpage

155

Lastpage

521

Abstract

The paper describes new techniques for minimally immersive visualization of 3D scalar and vector fields, and visualization of document corpora. In our glyph based visualization system, the user interacts with the 3D volume of glyphs using a pair of button-enhanced 3D position and orientation trackers. The user may also examine the volume using an interactive lens, which is a rectangle that slices through the 3D volume and displays scalar information on its surface. A lens allows the display of scalar data in the 3D volume using a contour diagram, and a texture based volume rendering.

Keywords

data visualisation; document handling; image texture; interactive systems; rendering (computer graphics); user interfaces; 3D scalar fields; 3D volume; button-enhanced 3D position; contour diagram; document corpora; glyph based visualization system; interactive lens visualization techniques; minimally immersive visualization; orientation trackers; scalar data; scalar information; texture based volume rendering; user interaction; vector fields; Computer science; Data visualization; Lenses; NASA; Rendering (computer graphics); Shape; Statistics; Three dimensional displays; Two dimensional displays; Virtual reality;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Visualization '99. Proceedings

Conference_Location

San Francisco, CA, USA

ISSN

1070-2385

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5897-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/VISUAL.1999.809882

Filename

809882