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Vis	1,996	A system for measuring surface facet orientation from atomic force microscope data	10.1109/VISUAL.1996.568141	The authors describe a graphical system developed for researchers in materials science for extracting information from data obtained by atomic force microscopy. In particular, they consider the problem of computing surface orientations from data obtained from ceramic materials. The visualization problems they consider ...	false	false	[ "John G. Hagedorn", "Holly E. Rushmeier", "John Blendell", "Mark Vaudin" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,996	A system for the complementary visualization of 3D volume images using 2D and 3D binaurally processed sonification representations	10.1109/VISUAL.1996.568129	Typically, feedback from analysis of three-dimensional volume image structures are presented in the visual domain. This ignores the potential for complementary analysis of feedback in the aural domain. This paper presents a system in which visualization of a volume image may be enhanced through representation of the vo...	false	false	[ "David Rossiter", "Wai-Yin Ng" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,996	A visualization tool for mechanical design	10.1109/VISUAL.1996.568142	We present a new visualization approach to support design for manufacturing (DFM). This involves the correlation of manufacturing problems with the causative geometric characteristics. We then discuss the use of distance transform and 3-D thinning to extract these characteristics from a voxelized object. In contrast to...	false	false	[ "Shao-Chiung Lu", "Alec B. Rebello", "D. H. Cui", "Roni Yagel", "Richard Allen Miller", "Gary L. Kinzel" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,996	Anatomy-based facial tissue modeling using the finite element method	10.1109/VISUAL.1996.567595	Anatomy-based facial tissue modeling for surgical simulation is a field whose time has come. Real-time facial animation has been created in the last few years using models based on the anatomical structure of the human skin. Anatomy-based models are also under development in the field of medical visualization, with whi...	false	false	[ "Erwin Keeve", "Sabine Girod", "Paula Pfeifle", "Bernd Girod" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,996	BLaC-wavelets: a multiresolution analysis with non-nested spaces	10.1109/VISUAL.1996.567602	In the last five years, there has been numerous applications of wavelets and multiresolution analysis in many fields of computer graphics as different as geometric modelling, volume visualization or illumination modelling. Classical multiresolution analysis is based on the knowledge of a nested set of functional spaces...	false	false	[ "Georges-Pierre Bonneau", "Stefanie Hahmann", "Gregory M. Nielson" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,996	Breaking the Myth: One Picture is Not (always) Worth a Thousand Words	10.1109/VISUAL.1996.569203	null	false	false	[ "Nahum D. Gershon", "Robert Braham", "F. David Fracchia", "Andrew S. Glassner", "Barbara Mones-Hattal", "Russ Rose" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,996	Case Study: Mantle convection visualization on the Cray T3D	10.1109/VISUAL.1996.568144	The recent years have seen rapid advancement towards viewing the Earth as an integrated system. This means that we have come to understand the interdependence of the major planetary subsystems-atmosphere, biosphere, oceans and the deep earth interior-on a large range of time and length scales. One of the longest time s...	false	false	[ "James S. Painter", "Hans-Peter Bunge", "Yarden Livnat" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,996	Case Study: Visual access for landscape event based temporal data	10.1109/VISUAL.1996.568148	As ecological awareness increases there has been a shift towards more integrated forest management. Accurate modeling of future states of forested landscapes will allow better planning for safeguarding our forest resource for future generations. We present an initial exploration into providing visual access to informat...	false	false	[ "Sheelagh Carpendale", "Andrew Fall", "David J. Cowperthwaite", "Joseph Fall", "F. David Fracchia" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,996	Case study: Visualization of laser confocal microscopy datasets	10.1109/VISUAL.1996.568136	The paper presents an example of how existing visualization methods can be successfully applied-after minor modifications-for allowing new, sometimes unexpected insight into scientific questions, in this case for better understanding of unknown, microscopic biological structures. The authors present a volume rendering ...	false	false	[ "Georgios Sakas", "Michael G. Vicker", "Peter Jörg Plath" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,996	Cheops: a compact explorer for complex hierarchies	10.1109/VISUAL.1996.567745	As the amount of electronic information explodes, hierarchies to handle this information become huge and complex. Visualizing and interacting with these hierarchies become daunting tasks. The problem is exacerbated if the visualization is to be done on mass-market personal computers, with limited processing power and v...	false	false	[ "Luc Beaudoin", "Marc-Antoine Parent", "Louis C. Vroomen" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,996	Choosing effective colours for data visualization	10.1109/VISUAL.1996.568118	We describe a technique for choosing multiple colours for use during data visualization. Our goal is a systematic method for maximizing the total number of colours available for use, while still allowing an observer to rapidly and accurately search a display for any one of the given colours. Previous research suggests ...	false	false	[ "Christopher G. Healey" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,996	Clinical evaluation of interactive volume visualization	10.1109/VISUAL.1996.568134	The case study describes a system that allows the use of interactive volume rendering for routine clinical diagnosis. In this setup, a SGI RealityStation acts like a remote rendering system which is controlled by a user interface that was added to an existing clinical system. The paper describes some implementation asp...	false	false	[ "Karel J. Zuiderveld", "Peter M. A. van Ooijen", "John W. C. Chin-A-Woeng", "Pieter C. Buijs", "Marco Olree", "Frits H. Post" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,996	Complex-valued contour meshing	10.1109/VISUAL.1996.568103	An isovalue contour of a function of two complex variables defines a surface in four-space. We present a robust technique for creating polygonal contours of complex-valued functions. The technique, contour meshing, generalizes well to larger dimensions.	false	false	[ "Chris Weigle", "David C. Banks" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,996	Contour blending using warp-guided distance field interpolation	10.1109/VISUAL.1996.567812	Given (n-1)-dimensional parallel cross-sections of an n-dimensional body, one would like to reconstruct the n-dimensional body. The method based on Distance Field Interpolation (DFI) gives a robust solution to this problem in its ability to deal with any topology in any dimension. Still this method may give undesired s...	false	false	[ "Daniel Cohen-Or", "David Levin", "Amira Solomovici" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,996	Data level comparative visualization in aircraft design	10.1109/VISUAL.1996.568140	Comparative visualization has successfully been applied to a variety of fluid dynamic problems. Most applications rely on image level comparison such as experimental flow visualization versus computational flow imagery (CFI) which tries to simulate optical image acquisition in flow testing. When differences become diff...	false	false	[ "Jens C. Trapp", "Hans-Georg Pagendarm" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,996	Data reduction and interpolation for visualizing 3D soil-quality data	10.1109/VISUAL.1996.568147	Sampling and analysis of subsurface contaminants comprise the first steps toward environmental remediation of hazardous spills. We have developed software tools to support the analysis phase, using three different schemes for interpolating scattered 3D soil-quality data onto a grid suitable for viewing in an interactiv...	false	false	[ "David C. Banks", "Bernd Hamann", "Po-Yu Tsai", "Robert J. Moorhead II", "Jonathan Barlow" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,996	Deformable volume rendering by 3D texture mapping and octree encoding	10.1109/VISUAL.1996.567609	Rendering deformable volume data currently needs separate processes for deformation and rendering, and is expensive in terms of both computational and memory costs. Recognizing the importance of unifying these processes, we present a new approach to the direct rendering of deformable volumes without explicitly construc...	false	false	[ "Shiaofen Fang", "Rajagopalan Srinivasan", "Su Huang", "Raghu Raghavan" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,996	Directional flow visualization of vector fields	10.1109/VISUAL.1996.568139	The paper presents interactive flow visualization methods that highlight directional information in the flow field. An added benefit of the proposed methods is that they reduce the amount of data being displayed and hence reduce clutter. The main idea behind these methods is the use of light sources to select and highl...	false	false	[ "Ed Boring", "Alex T. Pang" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,996	Dynamic view-dependent simplification for polygonal models	10.1109/VISUAL.1996.568126	Presents an algorithm for performing view-dependent simplifications of a triangulated polygonal model in real-time. The simplifications are dependent on viewing direction, lighting and visibility, and are performed by taking advantage of image-space, object-space and frame-to-frame coherences. A continuous level-of-det...	false	false	[ "Julie C. Xia", "Amitabh Varshney" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,996	Electrical energy absorption in the human head from a cellular telephone	10.1109/VISUAL.1996.568135	The antenna of a cellular telephone in close proximity to the human head for a variety of time periods raises questions. This research uses the finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) method to calculate the power deposition from a cellular telephone on a high-resolution model of a human head as measured by the specific a...	false	false	[ "Vishram Pandit", "Robert McDermott", "Gianluca Lazzi", "Cynthia M. Furse", "Om Gandhi" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,996	Fast Perspective Volume Rendering with Splatting by Utilizing a Ray-Driven Approach	10.1109/VISUAL.1996.567608	Volume ray casting is based on sampling the data along sight rays. In this technique, reconstruction is achieved by a convolution, which collects the contribution of multiple voxels to one sample point. Splatting, on the other hand, is based on projecting data points on to the screen, and reconstruction is implemented ...	false	false	[ "Klaus Mueller 0001", "Roni Yagel" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,996	Fast stereo volume rendering	10.1109/VISUAL.1996.567603	We present new volume rendering techniques for efficiently generating high-quality stereoscopic images and propose criteria to evaluate stereo volume rendering algorithms. Specifically, we present fast stereo volume ray casting algorithms using segment composition and linearly-interpolated re-projection. A fast stereo ...	false	false	[ "Taosong He", "Arie E. Kaufman" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,996	FEL: The Field Encapsulation Library	10.1109/VISUAL.1996.568115	The paper describes the Field Encapsulation Library (FEL), which provides a grid independent application programmer's interface to gridded three dimensional field data. The C++ implementation of FEL is described, stressing the way in which the class hierarchy hides the underlying grid structure in a way that allows vis...	false	false	[ "Steve Bryson", "David N. Kenwright", "Michael J. Gerald-Yamasaki" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,996	Flexible information visualization of multivariate data from biological sequence similarity searches	10.1109/VISUAL.1996.567796	Information visualization faces challenges presented by the need to represent abstract data and the relationships within the data. Previously, we presented a system for visualizing similarities between a single DNA sequence and a large database of other DNA sequences (E.H. Chi et al., 1995). Similarity algorithms gener...	false	false	[ "Ed H. Chi", "John Riedl", "Elizabeth Shoop", "John V. Carlis", "Ernest F. Retzel", "Phillip Barry" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,996	Flow visualization for turbomachinery design	10.1109/VISUAL.1996.568137	Visualization of CFD data for turbomachinery design poses some special requirements which are often not addressed by standard flow visualization systems. The authors discuss the issues involved with this particular application and its requirements with respect to flow visualization. Aiming at a feature-based visualizat...	false	false	[ "Martin Roth", "Ronald Peikert" ]	[ "BCS" ]	[]	[]
Vis	1,996	Generation of Transfer Functions with Stochastic Search Technique	10.1109/VISUAL.1996.568113	This paper presents a novel approach to assist the user in exploring appropriate transfer functions for the visualization of volumetric datasets. The search for a transfer function is treated as a parameter optimization problem and addressed with stochastic search techniques. Starting from an initial population of (ran...	false	false	[ "Taosong He", "Lichan Hong", "Arie E. Kaufman", "Hanspeter Pfister" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,996	Hierarchical and parallelizable direct volume rendering for irregular and multiple grids	10.1109/VISUAL.1996.567606	A general volume rendering technique is described that efficiently produces images of excellent quality from data defined over irregular grids having a wide variety of formats. Rendering is done in software, eliminating the need for special graphics hardware, as well as any artifacts associated with graphics hardware. ...	false	false	[ "Jane Wilhelms", "Allen Van Gelder", "Paul Tarantino", "Jonathan Gibbs" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,996	History consideration in reconstructing polyhedral surfaces from parallel slices	10.1109/VISUAL.1996.567804	We introduce an algorithm for reconstructing a solid model given a series of planar cross sections. The main contribution of this work is the use of knowledge obtained during the interpolation of neighboring layers while attempting to interpolate a particular layer. This knowledge is used to reconstruct a surface in wh...	false	false	[ "Gill Barequet", "Daniel Shapiro", "Ayellet Tal" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,996	Illustrating transparent surfaces with curvature-directed strokes	10.1109/VISUAL.1996.568110	Transparency can be a useful device for simultaneously depicting multiple superimposed layers of information in a single image. However, in computer-generated pictures-as in photographs and in directly viewed actual objects-it can often be difficult to adequately perceive the three-dimensional shape of a layered transp...	false	false	[ "Victoria Interrante", "Henry Fuchs", "Stephen M. Pizer" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,996	Information Exploration Shootout or "Benchmarks for Information Exploration"	10.1109/VISUAL.1996.568163	Many now recognize that mining for information and knowledge from large databases and documents will be the next fundamental impact in database systems, knowledge discovery, and visualization. This is considered an important area for major cost savings and potential revenue, and it has immediate applications in decisio...	false	false	[ "Georges G. Grinstein", "Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro", "Graham J. Wills" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,996	Interactive Exploration and Modeling of Large Data Sets: A Case Study with Venus Light Scattering Data	10.1109/VISUAL.1996.568150	We present a system where visualization and the control of the simulation are integrated to facilitate interactive exploration and modeling of large data sets. The system was developed to estimate properties of the atmosphere of Venus from comparison between measured and simulated data. Reuse of results, distributed co...	false	false	[ "Jarke J. van Wijk", "Hans J. W. Spoelder", "Willem-Jan Knibbe", "Kamran Eftekhari Shahroudi" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,996	Interactive visualization of 3D-vector fields using illuminated stream lines	10.1109/VISUAL.1996.567777	A new technique for interactive vector field visualization using large numbers of properly illuminated stream lines is presented. Taking into account ambient, diffuse, and specular reflection terms as well as transparency, we employ a realistic shading model which significantly increases quality and realism of the resu...	false	false	[ "Malte Zöckler", "Detlev Stalling", "Hans-Christian Hege" ]	[ "BP" ]	[]	[]
Vis	1,996	Interactive visualization of ocean circulation models	10.1109/VISUAL.1996.568149	Visualization of computational oceanography is traditionally a post-processing step. This batch orientation is clumsy if one wants to observe the effect of a wide range of parameters on the solution. This paper describes the conversion of an ocean circulation model from this traditional design to an interactive program...	false	false	[ "Scott Nations", "Robert J. Moorhead II", "Kelly P. Gaither", "Steve Aukstakalnis", "Rhonda Vickery", "Warren Carl Couvillion Jr.", "Daniel N. Fox", "Peter Flynn", "Alan J. Wallcraft", "Patrick Hogan", "Ole Martin Smedstad" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,996	Isosurfacing in span space with utmost efficiency (ISSUE)	10.1109/VISUAL.1996.568121	We present efficient sequential and parallel algorithms for isosurface extraction. Based on the Span Space data representation, new data subdivision and searching methods are described. We also present a parallel implementation with an emphasis on load balancing. The performance of our sequential algorithm to locate th...	false	false	[ "Han-Wei Shen", "Charles D. Hansen", "Yarden Livnat", "Christopher R. Johnson 0001" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,996	LISTEN: sounding uncertainty visualization	10.1109/VISUAL.1996.568105	Integrated presentation of data with uncertainty is a worthy goal in scientific visualization. It allows researchers to make informed decisions based on imperfect data. It also allows users to visually compare and contrast different algorithms for performing the same task or different models for representing the same p...	false	false	[ "Suresh K. Lodha", "Catherine M. Wilson", "Robert E. Sheehan" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,996	Mathematical Vkualization: Standing at the Crossroads	10.1109/VISUAL.1996.568165	Proponents of computer-aided mathematical visualization argue that visualization can help build the intuition necessary to both propose theorems and understand and create proofs. Critics counter that the traditional pristine edifice of theorem-proof mathematics is in danger of being undermined by a dangerous lack of ri...	false	false	[ "Tamara Munzner", "David Banks", "George Francis", "Andrew J. Hanson", "Loki Jörgenson" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,996	Mesh reduction with error control	10.1109/VISUAL.1996.568124	In many cases the surfaces of geometric models consist of a large number of triangles. Several algorithms were developed to reduce the number of triangles required to approximate such objects. Algorithms that measure the deviation between the approximated object and the original object are only available for special ca...	false	false	[ "Reinhard Klein", "Gunther Liebich", "Wolfgang Straßer" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,996	Multi-frequency noise for LIC	10.1109/VISUAL.1996.567784	We present a way to visualize a flow field using Line Integral Convolution (LIC) with a multi frequency noise texture. A broad range of feature sizes can enhance a user's perception of the magnitudes and direction of the flow. In addition, the multiple scales of feature size help a user clarify the motion of the flow i...	false	false	[ "Ming-Hoe Kiu", "David C. Banks" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,996	Multiresolution multidimensional wavelet brushing	10.1109/VISUAL.1996.567800	Brushing is a data visualization technique that identifies and highlights data subsets. We introduce a form of brushing in which the brushed data is usually displayed at a different resolution than the non brushed data. The paper presents the rationale behind the multiresolution support of multivariate data visualizati...	false	false	[ "Pak Chung Wong", "R. Daniel Bergeron" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,996	Octree-based decimation of marching cubes surfaces	10.1109/VISUAL.1996.568127	The marching cubes (MC) algorithm is a method for generating isosurfaces. It also generates an excessively large number of triangles to represent an isosurface; this increases the rendering time. This paper presents a decimation method to reduce the number of triangles generated. Decimation is carried out before creati...	false	false	[ "Raj Shekhar", "Elias Fayyad", "Roni Yagel", "J. Fredrick Cornhill" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,996	Opacity-modulating triangular textures for irregular surfaces	10.1109/VISUAL.1996.568111	Many scientific and medical visualization techniques produce irregular surfaces whose shape and structure need to be understood. Examples include tissue and tumor boundaries in medical imaging, molecular surfaces and force thresholds in chemical and pharmaceutical applications, and isosurfaces in a wide range of 3D dom...	false	false	[ "Penny Rheingans" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,996	Optimizing triangle strips for fast rendering	10.1109/VISUAL.1996.568125	Almost all scientific visualization involving surfaces is currently done via triangles. The speed at which such triangulated surfaces can be displayed is crucial to interactive visualization and is bounded by the rate at which triangulated data can be sent to the graphics subsystem for rendering. Partitioning polygonal...	false	false	[ "Francine Evans", "Steven Skiena", "Amitabh Varshney" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,996	Perceptualisation using a tactile mouse	10.1109/VISUAL.1996.568104	Whilst there has been considerable effort in constructing force feedback devices for use in virtual environments, and in the use of touch as a prosthesis for the blind, there has been little work on the use of touch in the visualisation or more properly, perceptualisation of data. Touch potentially offers an additional...	false	false	[ "Robert G. Hughes", "A. Robin Forrest" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,996	Raycasting vector fields	10.1109/VISUAL.1996.567780	Direct Volume Rendering (DVR) allows the holistic visualization of huge volumetric data sets in a single image. Computational fluid dynamics data is in principle well suited for DVR. But efficient mappings of the directional information of vector fields are still to be found. We investigate how the raycasting technique...	false	false	[ "Thomas Frühauf" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,996	Real-time Accelerators for Volume Rendering	10.1109/VISUAL.1996.568160	null	false	false	[ "Arie E. Kaufman", "Hanspeter Pfister", "Günter Knittel", "Jürgen Hesser", "John C. Goble" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,996	Real-time incremental visualization of dynamic ultrasound volumes using parallel BSP trees	10.1109/VISUAL.1996.568114	We present a method for producing real-time volume visualizations of continuously captured, arbitrarily-oriented 2D arrays (slices) of data. Our system constructs a 3D representation on-the-fly from incoming 2D ultrasound slices by modeling and rendering the slices as planar polygons with translucent surface textures. ...	false	false	[ "William F. Garrett", "Henry Fuchs", "Mary C. Whitton", "Andrei State" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,996	Real-time slicing of data space	10.1109/VISUAL.1996.568119	Real time rendering of iso contour surfaces is problematic for large complex data sets. An algorithm is presented that allows very rapid representation of an interval set surrounding an iso contour surface. The algorithm draws upon three main ideas. A fast indexing scheme is used to select only those data points near t...	false	false	[ "Roger Crawfis" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,996	Results in mathematics and music: Visualization of roughness in musical consonance	10.1109/VISUAL.1996.568130	The definition of consonance as the ability to resolve a sound into the pitch categories is introduced. For a vector space of chords a norm is used to evaluate the consonance linearly in dependence of the instrument used. It is shown that in the corresponding Hilbert space the chords which usually appear together in a ...	false	false	[ "Florian Sobieczky" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,996	Surface Rendering Versus Volume Rendering In Medical Imaging: Techniques And Applications	10.1109/VISUAL.1996.568151	High resolution imaging modalities. combined with advances in computer technology has prompted renewed interest and led to significant progress in volumetric reconstruction of medical images. Clinical assessment of this technique and whether it can provide enhanced diagnostic interpretation is currently under investiga...	false	false	[ "Ramin Shahidi", "William E. Lorensen", "Ron Kikinis", "John Flynn", "Arie E. Kaufman", "Sandy Napel" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,996	Temporal continuity of levels of detail in Delaunay triangulated terrain	10.1109/VISUAL.1996.567600	The representation of a scene at different levels of detail is necessary to achieve real-time rendering. In aerial views, only the part of the scene that is close to the viewing point needs to be displayed with a high level of detail, while more distant parts can be displayed with a low level of detail. However, when a...	false	false	[ "Daniel Cohen-Or", "Yishay Levanoni" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,996	The challenges of visualizing and modeling environmental data	10.1109/VISUAL.1996.568145	Existing volume visualization techniques are typically applied to a three-dimensional grid. This presents some challenging problems in the visualization of environmental data. This data often consists of unevenly distributed samples. Typically a two-step approach is used to visualize environmental data. First the uneve...	false	false	[ "Yingcai Xiao", "John P. Ziebarth", "Chuck Woodbury", "Eric Bayer", "Bruce Rundell", "Jeroen van der Zijp" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,996	The Design and Implementation of an Object-Oriented Toolkit for 3D Graphics and Visualization	10.1109/VISUAL.1996.567752	The Visualization Toolkit (vtk) is a freely available C++ class library for 3D graphics and visualization. We describe core characteristics of the toolkit. This includes a description of object oriented models for graphics and visualization; methods for synchronizing system execution; a summary of data representation s...	false	false	[ "William J. Schroeder", "Ken Martin", "William E. Lorensen" ]	[ "TT" ]	[]	[]
Vis	1,996	Three Dimensional Visualization of Proteins in Cellular Interactions	10.1109/VISUAL.1996.568133	In researching the communication mechanisms between cells of the immune system, visualization of proteins in three dimensions can be used to determine which proteins are capable of interacting with one another at a given time by showing their spatial colocality. Volume data sets are created using digital confocal immun...	false	false	[ "Colin R. F. Monks", "Patricia Crossno", "George S. Davidson", "Constantine J. Pavlakos", "Abraham Kupfer", "Cláudio T. Silva", "Brian N. Wylie" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,996	Time management, simultaneity and time-critical computation in interactive unsteady visualization environments	10.1109/VISUAL.1996.568117	The paper describes time management and time critical computing for a near real time interactive unsteady visualization environment. Subtle issues regarding the flow of time are described, formalized and addressed. The resulting system correctly reflects time behavior while allowing the user to control the flow of time...	false	false	[ "Steve Bryson", "Sandy Johan" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,996	Triangular NURBS surface modeling of scattered data	10.1109/VISUAL.1996.568122	We propose to fit triangular NURBS surfaces to noisy, sparse, scattered 3D data while simultaneously localizing and preserving sharp edges. We use a vector voting method to interpolate, from sparse data, three dense potential fields for surfaces, edges, and junctions. The global voting interpolants encode several human...	false	false	[ "Song Han", "Gérard G. Medioni" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,996	Two-handed interactive stereoscopic visualization	10.1109/VISUAL.1996.568109	This paper describes a minimally immersive interactive system for visualization of multivariate volumetric data. The system, SFA, uses glyph-based volume rendering which does not suffer the initial costs of isosurface rendering or voxel-based volume rendering, while offering the capability of viewing the entire volume....	false	false	[ "David S. Ebert", "Chris Shaw 0002", "Amen Zwa", "Cindy Starr" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,996	UFLOW: visualizing uncertainty in fluid flow	10.1109/VISUAL.1996.568116	Uncertainty or errors are introduced in fluid flow data as the data is acquired, transformed and rendered. Although researchers are aware of these uncertainties, little has been done to incorporate them in the existing visualization systems for fluid flow. In the absence of integrated presentation of data and its assoc...	false	false	[ "Suresh K. Lodha", "Alex T. Pang", "Robert E. Sheehan", "Craig M. Wittenbrink" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,996	Untangling Knots by Stochastic Energy Optimization	10.1109/VISUAL.1996.568120	A method for visualizing unknottedness of mathematical knots via energy optimization with simulated annealing is presented. In this method a potential field is formed around a tangled rope that causes it to self-repel. By allowing the rope to evolve in this field in search of an energy minimizing configuration we can d...	false	false	[ "Milana Huang", "Robert P. Grzeszczuk", "Louis H. Kauffman" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,996	Using visualization in the archaeological excavations of a pre-Inca temple in Peru	10.1109/VISUAL.1996.568132	We describe an on-going project that is using visualization as an indispensable tool for the restoration of the disintegrated ceiling of a ritual precinct that was discovered during archaeological excavations of a group of pre-Inca temples in Peru. This ceiling is unique-it is the only one ever found that has pictures ...	false	false	[ "Alan D. Kalvin", "Alfredo Remy", "Orlando Ardito", "Kim Morla", "Eduardo Nolasco", "Jorge Prado", "Regulo Franco", "Antonio Murga", "Guillermo Wiese" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,996	Virtual Workbench-a non-immersive virtual environment for visualizing and interacting with 3D objects for scientific visualization	10.1109/VISUAL.1996.568128	The Virtual Workbench (VW) is a non-immersive virtual environment that allows users to view and interact with stereoscopic objects displayed on a workspace similar to a tabletop workspace used in day-to-day life. A VW is an ideal environment for collaborative work where several colleagues can gather around the table to...	false	false	[ "Upul Obeysekare", "Chas Williams", "Jim Durbin", "Lawrence J. Rosenblum", "Robert Rosenberg", "Fernando Grinstein", "Ravi Ramamurthi", "Alexandra Landsberg", "William Sandberg" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,996	Visualization of Complex Models Using Dynamic Texture-based Simplification	10.1109/VISUAL.1996.567774	We are investigating methods for simplifying complex models for interactive visualizations using texture based representations. The paper presents a simplification method which dynamically "caches" distant geometry into textures and trades off accurate rendering of the distant geometry for performance. Smooth transitio...	false	false	[ "Daniel G. Aliaga" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,996	Visualization of water quality data for the Chesapeake Bay	10.1109/VISUAL.1996.568146	We discuss a visualization system for the comparison of simulated and measured water quality. The system extends SCIRT (Site Characterization Interactive Research Toolkit), an interactive system originally developed at the NSF Engineering Research Center for Computational Field Simulation at Mississippi State Universit...	false	false	[ "Adam B. Forgang", "Bernd Hamann", "Carl F. Cerco" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,996	Visualization over the World Wide Web and its application to environmental data	10.1109/VISUAL.1996.567610	Explores the way in which data visualization systems, in particular modular visualization environments, can be used over the World Wide Web. The conventional approach is for the publisher of the data also to be responsible for creating the visualization, and posting it as an image on the Web. This leaves the viewer in ...	false	false	[ "Jason D. Wood", "Ken Brodlie", "Helen Wright" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,996	Volume Thinning for Automatic Isosurface Propagation	10.1109/VISUAL.1996.568123	An isosurface can be efficiently generated by visiting adjacent intersected cells in order, as if the isosurface were propagating itself. We previously proposed an extrema graph method (T. Itoh and K. Koyamada, 1995), which generates a graph connecting extremum points. The isosurface propagation starts from some of the...	false	false	[ "Takayuki Itoh", "Yasushi Yamaguchi 0001", "Koji Koyamada" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,996	Volume tracking	10.1109/VISUAL.1996.567807	3D time varying datasets are difficult to visualize and analyze because of the immense amount of data involved. This is especially true when the datasets are turbulent with many evolving amorphous regions, as it is difficult to observe patterns and follow regions of interest. We present our volume based feature trackin...	false	false	[ "Deborah Silver", "Xin Wang" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,996	Wavelets applied to lossless compression and progressive transmission of floating point data in 3-D curvilinear grids	10.1109/VISUAL.1996.568138	A method of lossless compression using wavelets is presented that enables progressive transmission of computational fluid dynamics (CFD) data in PLOT3D format. The floating point data is first converted to double-precision floating point format to maintain adequate precision throughout the transform process. It is then...	false	false	[ "Aaron Trott", "Robert J. Moorhead II", "John McGinley" ]	[]	[]	[]
InfoVis	1,996	Animating multidimensional scaling to visualize N-dimensional data sets	10.1109/INFVIS.1996.559223	Many techniques have been developed for visualizing multivariate (multidimensional) data. Most, if not all, are limited by the number of dimensions which can be effectively displayed. Multidimensional scaling (MDS) is an iterative non-linear technique for projecting n-D data down to a lower number of dimensions. This w...	false	false	[ "Chris Bentley", "Matthew O. Ward" ]	[]	[]	[]
InfoVis	1,996	Data characterization for automatically visualizing heterogeneous information	10.1109/INFVIS.1996.559211	Automated graphical generation systems should be able to design effective presentations for heterogeneous (quantitative and qualitative) information in static or interactive environments. When building such a system, it is important to thoroughly understand the presentation-related characteristics of domain-specific in...	false	false	[ "Michelle X. Zhou", "Steven K. Feiner" ]	[]	[]	[]
InfoVis	1,996	DEPICT: Documents Evaluated as Pictures. Visualizing information using context vectors and self-organizing maps	10.1109/INFVIS.1996.559228	HNC Software, Inc. has developed a system called DEPICT for visualizing the information content of large textual corpora. The system is built around two separate neural network methodologies: context vectors and self-organizing maps. Context vectors (CVs) are high dimensional information representations that encode the...	false	false	[ "David A. Rushall", "Marc R. Ilgen" ]	[]	[]	[]
InfoVis	1,996	Distortion viewing techniques for 3-dimensional data	10.1109/INFVIS.1996.559215	As the use of 3D information presentation becomes more prevalent, the need for effective viewing tools grows accordingly. Much work has been done in developing tools for 2D spaces which allow for detail in context views. We examine the extension of such 2D methods to 3D and explore the limitations encountered in access...	false	false	[ "Sheelagh Carpendale", "David J. Cowperthwaite", "F. David Fracchia" ]	[]	[]	[]
InfoVis	1,996	Dual multiresolution HyperSlice for multivariate data visualization	10.1109/INFVIS.1996.559224	We present a new multiresolution visualization design which allows a user to control the physical data resolution as well as the logical display resolution of multivariate data. A system prototype is described which uses the HyperSlice representation. The notion of space projection in multivariate data is introduced. T...	false	false	[ "Pak Chung Wong", "Andrew H. Crabb", "R. Daniel Bergeron" ]	[]	[]	[]
InfoVis	1,996	FINESSE: a financial information spreadsheet	10.1109/INFVIS.1996.559222	We outline a spreadsheet-based system for visualization of real-time financial information. Our system permits the user to define arithmetic and presentation relationships amongst the various cells of the spreadsheet. The cells contain primitives that can be numbers, text, images, functions and graphics. Presenting fin...	false	false	[ "Amitabh Varshney", "Arie E. Kaufman" ]	[]	[]	[]
InfoVis	1,996	Geospatial metadata querying and visualization on the WWW using Java™ applets	10.1109/INFVIS.1996.559225	This paper presents the query and visualization interfaces of the Master Environmental Library (MEL) system. MEL uses the World Wide Web (WWW) to make accessible distributed data whose metadata conform to the Federal Geographic Data Committee's (FGDC) content standards for digital geospatial metadata. The interfaces ar...	false	false	[ "Naim Alper", "Chuck Stein" ]	[]	[]	[]
InfoVis	1,996	Interactive visualization of multiway tables	10.1109/INFVIS.1996.559221	Many business data visualization applications involve large databases with dozens of fields and millions of rows. Interactive visualization of these databases is difficult because of the large amount of data involved. We present a method of summarizing large databases which is well suited to interactive visualization. ...	false	false	[ "Kenneth C. Cox", "Dianne Hackborn" ]	[]	[]	[]
InfoVis	1,996	Minimally-immersive interactive volumetric information visualization	10.1109/INFVIS.1996.559220	This paper describes a minimally immersive volumetric interactive system for information visualization. The system, SFA, uses glyph-based volume rendering, enabling more information attributes to be visualized than traditional 2D and surface-based information visualization systems. Two-handed interaction and stereoscop...	false	false	[ "David S. Ebert", "Chris Shaw 0002", "Amen Zwa", "Ethan L. Miller", "D. Aaron Roberts" ]	[]	[]	[]
InfoVis	1,996	On the semantics of interactive visualizations	10.1109/INFVIS.1996.559213	Interactive techniques are powerful tools for manipulating visualizations to analyze, communicate and acquire information. This is especially true for large data sets or complex 3D visualizations. Although many new types of interaction have been introduced recently, very little work has been done on understanding what ...	false	false	[ "Mei C. Chuah", "Steven F. Roth" ]	[]	[]	[]
InfoVis	1,996	Rapid prototyping of information visualizations using VANISH	10.1109/INFVIS.1996.559212	Discusses a software tool called VANISH (Visualizing And Navigating Information Structured Hierarchically), which supports the rapid prototyping of interactive 2D and 3D information visualizations. VANISH supports rapid prototyping through a special-purpose visual language called VaPL (VANISH Programming Language) tail...	false	false	[ "Rick Kazman", "S. Jeromy Carrière" ]	[]	[]	[]
InfoVis	1,996	Selection: 524,288 ways to say "this is interesting"	10.1109/INFVIS.1996.559216	Visualization is a critical technology for understanding complex, data-rich systems. Effective visualizations make important features of the data immediately recognizable and enable the user to discover interesting and useful results by highlighting patterns. A key element of such systems is the ability to interact wit...	false	false	[ "Graham J. Wills" ]	[]	[]	[]
InfoVis	1,996	Techniques for non-linear magnification transformations	10.1109/INFVIS.1996.559214	This paper presents efficient methods for implementing general non-linear magnification transformations. Techniques are provided for: combining linear and non-linear magnifications, constraining the domain of magnifications, combining multiple transformations, and smoothly interpolating between magnified and normal vie...	false	false	[ "Alan Keahey", "Edward L. Robertson" ]	[]	[]	[]
InfoVis	1,996	Towards rich information landscapes for visualising structured Web spaces	10.1109/INFVIS.1996.559218	The Harmony browser for the Hyper-G Web server utilises Hyper-G's rich data model to provide a number of tightly-coupled, two- and three-dimensional visualisation and navigational facilities. In particular the Harmony Information Landscape visualises the hierarchical structure of Hyper-G spaces upon a plane in three-di...	false	false	[ "Keith Andrews", "Michael Pichler", "Peter Wolf" ]	[]	[]	[]
InfoVis	1,996	Visage: a user interface environment for exploring information	10.1109/INFVIS.1996.559210	Visage is a prototype user interface environment for exploring and analyzing information. It represents an approach to coordinating multiple visualizations, analysis and presentation tools in data-intensive domains. Visage is based on an information-centric approach to user interface design which strives to eliminate i...	false	false	[ "Steven F. Roth", "Peter Lucas 0002", "Jeffrey Senn", "Cristina C. Gomberg", "Michael B. Burks", "Philip J. Stroffolino", "John A. Kolojechick", "Carolyn Dunmire" ]	[ "TT" ]	[]	[]
InfoVis	1,996	Visualizing a tennis match	10.1109/INFVIS.1996.559229	This paper describes our work on visualizing the information of a tennis match. We use competition trees to organize the information of a tennis match and visualize the competition trees by the top-nesting layered maps with translucent colored layers. We create iconic representations to describe the detailed informatio...	false	false	[ "Liqun Jin", "David C. Banks" ]	[]	[]	[]
InfoVis	1,996	Visualizing the global topology of the MBone	10.1109/INFVIS.1996.559226	We present a case study of visualizing the global topology of the Internet MBone. The MBone is the Internet's multicast backbone. Multicast is the most efficient way of distributing data from one sender to multiple receivers with minimal packet duplication. Developed and initially deployed by researchers within the Int...	false	false	[ "Tamara Munzner", "Eric Hoffman", "Kimberly C. Claffy", "Bill Fenner" ]	[]	[]	[]
InfoVis	1,996	Visualizing the results of multimedia Web search engines	10.1109/INFVIS.1996.559219	Search engines are very useful because they allow the user to retrieve documents of interest from the World-Wide Web. However, if the user's query results in lots of records to be retrieved, just listing the results is not very user-friendly. We are developing a system that allows the visualization of the results. Visu...	false	false	[ "Sougata Mukherjea", "Kyoji Hirata", "Yoshinori Hara" ]	[]	[]	[]
InfoVis	1,996	Visualizing usability log data	10.1109/INFVIS.1996.559227	Our approach to testing graphical user interfaces involves logging large amounts of data. These logs capture information at the key press and mouse click level about how an application is used. Since the raw data is voluminous and not at a useful level of detail, we use analysis and visualization to find information th...	false	false	[ "Mark Gray", "Albert N. Badre", "Mark Guzdial" ]	[]	[]	[]
CHI	1,996	Externalising Abstract Mathematical Models	10.1145/238386.238587	Abstract mathematical models play an important part in engineering design, economic decision making and other activities. Such models can be externalised in the form of Interactive Visualisation Artifacts (IVAs). These IVAs display the data generated by mathematical models in simple graphs which are interactively linke...	false	false	[ "Lisa Tweedie", "Robert Spence", "Huw Dawkes", "Hua Su" ]	[]	[]	[]
CHI	1,996	Interaction Design and Human Factors Support in the Development of a Personal Communicator for Children	10.1145/238386.238603	Today's computer games for children are primarily focused on boys. Two years ago Philips started the development of a new 'personal communication' product that addresses the needs of young children and especially the needs of young gifts. This article is focused on the interaction design and human factors support provi...	false	false	[ "Ron Oosterholt", "Mieko Kusano", "Govert de Vries" ]	[]	[]	[]
CHI	1,996	LifeLines: Visualizing Personal Histories	10.1145/238386.238493	LifeLines provide a general visualization environment for personal histories that can be applied to medical and court records, professional histories and other types of biographical data. A one screen overview shows multiple facets of the records. Aspects, for example medical conditions or legal cases, are displayed as...	false	false	[ "Catherine Plaisant", "Brett Milash", "Anne Rose", "Seth Widoff", "Ben Shneiderman" ]	[]	[]	[]
CHI	1,996	Multiagent Model of Dynamic Design: Visualization as an Emergent Behavior of Active Design Agents	10.1145/238386.238566	This research has been motivated by the lack of models and languages in the visual design field that are able to address design solutions, which continuously adapt in response to the dynamic changes both in the information itself and in the goals or intentions of the information recipient. This paper postulates a muhia...	false	false	[ "Suguru Ishizaki" ]	[]	[]	[]
CHI	1,996	Silk from a Sow's Ear: Extracting Usable Structures from the Web	10.1145/238386.238450	In its current implementation, the World-Wide Web lacks much of the explicit structure and strong typing found in many closed hypertext systems. While this property probably relates to the explosive acceptance of the Web, it further complicates the already difficult problem of identifying usable structures and aggregat...	false	false	[ "Peter Pirolli", "James E. Pitkow", "Ramana Rao" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,995	3D computational steering with parametrized geometric objects	10.1109/VISUAL.1995.485143	Computational steering is the ultimate goal of interactive simulation: researchers change parameters of their simulation and immediately receive feedback on the effect. We present a general and flexible graphics tool that is part of an environment for computational steering developed at CWI. It enables the researcher t...	false	false	[ "Jurriaan D. Mulder", "Jarke J. van Wijk" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,995	A hardware acceleration method for volumetric ray tracing	10.1109/VISUAL.1995.480792	We present an acceleration method for volumetric ray tracing which utilizes standard graphics hardware without compromising image accuracy. The graphics hardware is employed to identify those segments of each ray that could possibly contribute to the final image. A volumetric ray tracing algorithm is then used to compu...	false	false	[ "Lisa M. Sobierajski", "Ricardo S. Avila" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,995	A model and a system for data-parallel program visualization	10.1109/VISUAL.1995.480816	Parallel program visualization and debugging require new techniques for gathering and displaying execution trace and profile data. Interaction with the program during execution is also required to facilitate parallel debugging. We discuss the difficulties associated with runtime user/program interaction and how the dat...	false	false	[ "Thomas A. Wagner", "R. Daniel Bergeron" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,995	A rule-based tool for assisting colormap selection	10.1109/VISUAL.1995.480803	The paper presents an interactive approach for guiding the user's select of colormaps in visualization. PRAVDAColor, implemented as a module in the IBM Visualization Data Explorer, provides the user a selection of appropriate colormaps given the data type and spatial frequency, the user's task, and properties of the hu...	false	false	[ "Lawrence D. Bergman", "Bernice E. Rogowitz", "Lloyd Treinish" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,995	A visualization tool for studying the development of the moss Physcomitrella patens	10.1109/VISUAL.1995.485153	The investigation of mechanisms responsible for the morphogenesis of complex biological organisms is an important area in biology. P. patens is an especially suitable plant for this research because it is a rather simple organism, facilitating its observation, yet it possesses developmental phenomena analogous to those...	false	false	[ "F. David Fracchia", "Neil W. Ashton" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,995	An architecture for retaining and analyzing visual explorations of databases	10.1109/VISUAL.1995.480801	A software architecture is presented to integrate a database management system with data visualization. One of its primary objectives, the retention of user-data interactions, is detailed. By storing all queries over the data along with high-level descriptions of the query results and the associated visualization, the ...	false	false	[ "John Peter Lee", "Georges G. Grinstein" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,995	An extended data-flow architecture for data analysis and visualization	10.1109/VISUAL.1995.480821	Modular visualization environments utilizing a data-flow execution model have become quite popular in recent years, especially those that incorporate visual programming tools. However, simplistic implementations of such an execution model are quite limited when applied to problems of realistic complexity, which negate ...	false	false	[ "Greg Abram", "Lloyd Treinish" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,995	An illustrated analysis of sonification for scientific visualisation	10.1109/VISUAL.1995.480802	This paper presents an analysis of progress in the use of sound as a tool in support of visualisation and gives an insight into its development and future needs. Special emphasis is given to the use of sound in scientific and engineering applications. A system developed to support surface data presentation and interact...	false	false	[ "Rosane Minghim", "A. Robin Forrest" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,995	Astronomers and their shady algorithms	10.1109/VISUAL.1995.485155	The vast quantities of data which may be produced by modern radio telescopes have outstripped conventional visualisation techniques available to astronomers. While research in other areas of visualisation finds some application in astronomy, problems peculiar to the field require new techniques. This paper presents a b...	false	false	[ "Richard Gooch" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,995	Authenticity analysis of wavelet approximations in visualization	10.1109/VISUAL.1995.480811	Wavelet transforms include data decompositions and reconstructions. This paper is concerned with the authenticity issues of the data decomposition, particularly for data visualization. A total of six datasets are used to clarify the approximation characteristics of compactly supported orthogonal wavelets. We present an...	false	false	[ "Pak Chung Wong", "R. Daniel Bergeron" ]	[]	[]	[]

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