Critical Design and Realization Aspects of Glyph-based 3D Data Visualization

Andreas E. Lie, Johannes Kehrer, Helwig Hauser

INPROCEEDINGS, Proceedings of the Spring Conference on Computer Graphics (SCCG 2009), April, 2009

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Abstract

Glyphs are useful for the effective visualization of multi-variate data. They allow for easily relating multiple data attributes to each other in a coherent visualization approach. While the basic principle of glyph-based visualization has been known for a long time, scientific interest has recently increased focus on the question of how to achieve a clever and successful glyph design. Along this newer trend, we present a structured discussion of several critical design aspects of glyph-based visualization with a special focus on 3D data. For three consecutive steps of data mapping, glyph instantiation, and rendering, we identify a number of design considerations. We illustrate our discussion with a new glyph-based visualization of time-dependent 3D simulation data and demonstrate how effective results are achieved.

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Proceedings of the Spring Conference on Computer Graphics (SCCG 2009)

• Pages: 27–34
• Location: Budmerice, Slovakia
• Date: April 2009
• URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1980462.1980470

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BibTeX

@inproceedings{lie09glyphBased3Dvisualization,
	author = {Andreas E. Lie and Johannes Kehrer and Helwig Hauser},
	title  ={Critical Design and Realization Aspects of Glyph-based 3D Data Visualization},
	year = {2009},
	booktitle = {Proceedings of the Spring Conference on Computer Graphics (SCCG 2009)},
    location =   "Budmerice, Slovakia",
	pages = {27--34},
	abstract = {Glyphs are useful for the effective visualization of multi-variate
	data. They allow for easily relating multiple data attributes to each
	other in a coherent visualization approach. While the basic principle
	of glyph-based visualization has been known for a long time,
	scientific interest has recently increased focus on the question of
	how to achieve a clever and successful glyph design. Along this
	newer trend, we present a structured discussion of several critical
	design aspects of glyph-based visualization with a special focus on
	3D data. For three consecutive steps of data mapping, glyph instantiation,
	and rendering, we identify a number of design considerations.
	We illustrate our discussion with a new glyph-based visualization
	of time-dependent 3D simulation data and demonstrate how
	effective results are achieved.},
  month = {April},	

  url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1980462.1980470},

}