This paper introduces an overview of IntelligentBox based interactive 3D visualization frameworks for exploring large information space, and shows example applications using such frameworks. We first introduce WorldMirror and WorldBottle that embed 3D information spaces as 3D components into a 3D environment to navigate information in the 3D space. Second, we introduce spreadsheet based coordin...

Confocal laser scanning microscope (CLSM) can obtain multichannel 3D images from biological tissues for analysis of tissue structures, where each channel results from a particular fluorescent label. The visualization of the multi-channel 3D confocal microscope images is required for qualitative, interactive, and even quantitative analysis of the structures of the studied tissues. Despite the av...

Summary) New technologies and techniques allow novel kinds of visualizations and different types of 3D visualizations are constantly developed. We propose a categorization of 3D visualizations and, based on this categorization, evaluate two versions of a space-time cube that show discrete spatiotemporal data. The two visualization techniques used are a headtracked stereoscopic visualization ('s...

This paper presents an automatic system for generating multi-scale colour 3D satellite images and dynamic visualization of 3D images through the Internet. Medium-resolution satellite images such as Landsat 7 and high-resolution satellite images such as Ikonos or QuickBird are the data sources for the multi-scale 3D images. New image fusion, colour enhancement and stereoscopy algorithms are deve...

The increasing capabilities of magnetic resonance (MR) imaging and multisection spiral computed tomography (CT) to acquire volumetric data with near-isotropic voxels make three-dimensional (3D) postprocessing a necessity, especially in studies of complex structures like intracranial vessels. Since most modern CT and MR imagers provide limited postprocessing capabilities, 3D visualization with i...

Three-dimensional (3D) bioimaging, visualization and data analysis are in strong need of powerful 3D exploration techniques. We develop virtual finger (VF) to generate 3D curves, points and regions-of-interest in the 3D space of a volumetric image with a single finger operation, such as a computer mouse stroke, or click or zoom from the 2D-projection plane of an image as visualized with a compu...