The VIS-5D system for easy interactive visualization

Hibbard, B.; Santek, David

doi:10.1109/visual.1990.146361

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“…On the more practical topic of visualization synthesis, many current systems provide environments for generating visualizations: AVS [21], Vis5D [8], VTK [16], IRIS Explorer [6] and IBM's Data Explorer [12] with PRAVDAcolor. None of these systems, however, provide any visual design guidance or suggestions for evaluating the resulting visualizations.…”

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Using Visual Design Experts in Critique-Based Evaluation of 2D Vector Visualization Methods

Acevedo¹,

Jackson

Drury

et al. 2008

IEEE Trans. Visual. Comput. Graphics

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Abstract-We describe an experiment in which art and illustration experts evaluated six 2D vector visualization methods. We found that these expert critiques mirrored previously recorded experimental results; these findings support that using artists, visual designers and illustrators to critique scientific visualizations can be faster and more productive than quantitative user studies. Our participants successfully evaluated how well the given methods would let users complete a given set of tasks. Our results show a statistically significant correlation with a previous objective study: designers' subjective predictions of user performance by these methods match users measured performance. The experts improved the evaluation by providing insights into the reasons for the effectiveness of each visualization method and suggesting specific improvements.

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Section: State Of the Artmentioning

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Using Visual Design Experts in Critique-Based Evaluation of 2D Vector Visualization Methods

Acevedo¹,

Jackson

Drury

et al. 2008

IEEE Trans. Visual. Comput. Graphics

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“…A number of systems have been proposed to visualize weatherrelated data [18,29,33], which similar to STEM's, consist of spatiotemporal data the is the average of results of many simulations of a model. Some features from these systems are present in BirdVis, including map views, colormaps, brushing and coordinated views [37].…”

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BirdVis: Visualizing and Understanding Bird Populations

Ferreira

Lins

Fink

et al. 2011

IEEE Trans. Visual. Comput. Graphics

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Fig. 1. Tag cloud lenses in BirdVis are used as a tool to explore and understand relative habitat preferences suggested by a species distribution model over space, time, and across species. Here, we show occurrence maps for the Indigo Bunting. The lenses cover three different regions on three different dates of the breeding season of 2009: May 4, June 22, and August 24, 2009. They show important differences in habitat preferences across these regions as well as how the preferences change over time within a region. The ability to interact with these visualizations, by changing regions and dates, and comparing different bird species, provides an unprecedented tool for scientists to understand bird distribution and consequently obtain insights about the environment and how it changes over time. The supplemental video gives an overview of different features and visualizations provided by BirdVis.Abstract-Birds are unrivaled windows into biotic processes at all levels and are proven indicators of ecological well-being. Understanding the determinants of species distributions and their dynamics is an important aspect of ecology and is critical for conservation and management. Through crowdsourcing, since 2002, the eBird project has been collecting bird observation records. These observations, together with local-scale environmental covariates such as climate, habitat, and vegetation phenology have been a valuable resource for a global community of educators, land managers, ornithologists, and conservation biologists. By associating environmental inputs with observed patterns of bird occurrence, predictive models have been developed that provide a statistical framework to harness available data for predicting species distributions and making inferences about species-habitat associations. Understanding these models, however, is challenging because they require scientists to quantify and compare multiscale spatialtemporal patterns. A large series of coordinated or sequential plots must be generated, individually programmed, and manually composed for analysis. This hampers the exploration and is a barrier to making the cross-species comparisons that are essential for coordinating conservation and extracting important ecological information. To address these limitations, as part of a collaboration among computer scientists, statisticians, biologists and ornithologists, we have developed BirdVis, an interactive visualization system that supports the analysis of spatio-temporal bird distribution models. BirdVis leverages visualization techniques and uses them in a novel way to better assist users in the exploration of interdependencies among model parameters. Furthermore, the system allows for comparative visualization through coordinated views, providing an intuitive interface to identify relevant correlations and patterns. We justify our design decisions and present case studies that show how BirdVis has helped scientists obtain new evidence for existing hypotheses, as well as formulate new hypotheses in their domain.

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“…Similar to Crumbs is a system called CAVE5D [4]. This is basically a CAVE implementation of the Vis5d visualization system [5]. CAVE5D supports any file formatted for Vis5d including topography, map, iso-surface and multiple trajectory sets.…”

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3DIVE: An immersive environment for interactive volume data exploration

Boyles

Fang

2003

J. Comput. Sci. & Technol.

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This paper describes an immersive system, called 3DIVE, for interactive volume data visualization and exploration inside the CAVE virtual environment. Combining interactive volume rendering and virtual reality provides a natural immersive environment for volumetric data visualization. More advanced data exploration operations, such as object level data manipulation, simulation and analysis, are supported in 3DIVE by several new techniques. In particular, volume primitives and texture regions are used for the rendering, manipulation, and collision detection of volumetric objects; and the region based rendering pipeline is integrated with 3D image filters to provide an image-based mechanism for interactive transfer function design. The system has been recently released as public domain software for CAVE/ImmersaDesk users, and is currently being actively used by various scientific and biomedical visualization projects.

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The VIS-5D system for easy interactive visualization

Cited by 41 publications

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Using Visual Design Experts in Critique-Based Evaluation of 2D Vector Visualization Methods

Using Visual Design Experts in Critique-Based Evaluation of 2D Vector Visualization Methods

BirdVis: Visualizing and Understanding Bird Populations

3DIVE: An immersive environment for interactive volume data exploration

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