In the field of the architectural heritage, the representation of artefacts, particularly for communication purposes, has benefited from the development of computer-based modelling techniques in fields ranging form archaeology to geography. But numerous experts in the above mentioned heritage field have come to question the readability of realistic models inside which the hypothetical nature of...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to suggest that physical experience can contribute to the comprehension of scientific data, especially through artistic approaches. Design/methodology/approach A number of relevant case studies is presented to make the case. Findings ‘Objective’ or neutral data-visualisation does not exist. Every visualisation process relies on human definitions or mediation...

Abstract The topology of vector fields offers a well known way to show a “condensed” view of the stream line behavior of a vector field. The global structure of a field can be shown without time-consuming user interaction. With regard to large data visualization, one encounters a major drawback: the necessity to analyze a whole data set, even when interested in only a small region. We show that...

In this paper we present a framework for interactive volume rendering of high-dimensional flow simulation data. Our approach combines information visualization, flow visualization, as well as volume visualization techniques for volumetric flow visualization. Interactive feature specification by use of multiple linked views and composite non-binary brushes enables selection and multiple definiti...

This paper presents our approach to volume modelling which combines volume representations by voxel data and by continuous real functions. We discuss the main differences between direct volume visualization and modelling with voxel data, questions of conversion between two representations including volume reconstruction from contour data. We illustrate the approach by several advanced operation...

The research area of spatiotemporal visualization has received much attention over the past decade due to its challenging aspects and high benefits. In this paper we present the visualization of spatiotemporal data in the form of earth terrain movements. An additional temporal dimension t is added to the terrain spatial dimensions of x, y and z thus creating a spatiotemporal visualization syste...

The aim of this research is to describe a useful approach for supporting creativity and problem-solving in the design of Information Visualization software. This type of software is useful for helping people to understand large or complex collections of data by making the data easier to see and use. Because it can be so helpful, many people are motivated to create visualization software to addr...

To gain insight into many properties of granular matter, a particle packing can be simulated. For a dry particle mixture, collective rearrangement is often used as an iterative process to place the particles. In this paper, we present a new visualization technique to judge the quality of a collective rearrangement simulation of many spheres with a given particle size distribution. In addition t...

It is widely recognized that data visualization may be a powerful instrument for exploratory analysis. In order to fulfill this claim, visualization software must be carefully designed taking into account two principal aspects: characteristics of the data to be visualized and the exploratory tasks to be supported. The tasks that may potentially arise in data exploration are, in their turn, depe...

We describe methodology for multidimensional scaling based on interactive data visualization. This methodology was enabled by software in which MDS is integrated in a multivariate data visualization system. The software, called “XGvis”, is described in a companion paper (Buja, Swayne, Littman, Dean and Hofmann 2001), that lays out the implemented functionality in some detail; in the current pap...