a) Global view (b) Local viewFigure 1:The interface for browsing slices created by the Hypersliceplorer algorithm. In this case we show slices of a 4D hypersphere. Each plot shows a pair of dimensions laid out in the same way as HyperSlice [vWvL93]. The interface has two modes: global and local view. The global view (a) shows the results of sampling over a number of focus points. The views are linked through highlighting a slice. The local view (b) shows a single selected slice and then the user can add additional slices by clicking the "+ FP" button. The location of each local focus point is shown as a colored dot and the corresponding slice is also colored accordingly.
AbstractIn this paper we present Hypersliceplorer, an algorithm for generating 2D slices of multi-dimensional shapes defined by a simplical mesh. Often, slices are generated by using a parametric form and then constraining parameters to view the slice. In our case, we developed an algorithm to slice a simplical mesh of any number of dimensions with a two-dimensional slice. In order to get a global appreciation of the multi-dimensional object, we show multiple slices by sampling a number of different slicing points and projecting the slices into a single view per dimension pair. These slices are shown in an interactive viewer which can switch between a global view (all slices) and a local view (single slice). We show how this method can be used to study regular polytopes, differences between spaces of polynomials, and multi-objective optimization surfaces.