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Vis	1,997	Interactive volume rendering for virtual colonoscopy	10.1109/VISUAL.1997.663915	3D virtual colonoscopy has recently been proposed as a non-invasive alternative procedure for the visualization of the human colon. Surface rendering is sufficient for implementing such a procedure to obtain an overview of the interior surface of the colon at interactive rendering speeds. Unfortunately, physicians can ...	false	false	[ "Suya You", "Lichan Hong", "Ming Wan", "Kittiboon Junyaprasert", "Arie E. Kaufman", "Shigeru Muraki", "Yong Zhou 0001", "Mark Wax", "Zhengrong Liang" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,997	Interval volume tetrahedrization	10.1109/VISUAL.1997.663886	The interval volume is a generalization of the isosurface commonly associated with the marching cubes algorithm. Based upon samples at the locations of a 3D rectilinear grid, the algorithm produces a triangular approximation to the surface defined by F(x,y,z)=c. The interval volume is defined by /spl alpha//spl les/F(x...	false	false	[ "Gregory M. Nielson", "Junwon Sung" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,997	Isosurface extraction using particle systems	10.1109/VISUAL.1997.663930	Presents a new approach to isosurface extraction from volume data using particle systems. Particle behavior is dynamic and can be based on laws of physics or artificial rules. For isosurface extraction, we program particles to be attracted towards a specific surface value while simultaneously repelling adjacent particl...	false	false	[ "Patricia Crossno", "Edward Angel" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,997	Multiresolution compression and reconstruction	10.1109/VISUAL.1997.663901	The paper presents a framework for multiresolution compression and geometric reconstruction of arbitrarily dimensioned data designed for distributed applications. Although being restricted to uniform sampled data, the versatile approach enables the handling of a large variety of real world elements. Examples include no...	false	false	[ "Oliver G. Staadt", "Markus H. Gross", "Roger Weber" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,997	Multiresolution tetrahedral framework for visualizing regular volume data	10.1109/VISUAL.1997.663869	The authors present a multiresolution framework, called Multi-Tetra framework, that approximates volume data with different levels-of-detail tetrahedra. The framework is generated through a recursive subdivision of the volume data and is represented by binary trees. Instead of using a certain level of the Multi-Tetra f...	false	false	[ "Yong Zhou 0001", "Baoquan Chen", "Arie E. Kaufman" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,997	Multivariate visualization using metric scaling	10.1109/VISUAL.1997.663866	The authors present an efficient visualization approach to support multivariate data exploration through a simple but effective low dimensional data overview based on metric scaling. A multivariate dataset is first transformed into a set of dissimilarities between all pairs of data records. A graph configuration algori...	false	false	[ "Pak Chung Wong", "R. Daniel Bergeron" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,997	Optimized geometry compression for real-time rendering	10.1109/VISUAL.1997.663902	Most existing visualization applications use 3D geometry as their basic rendering primitive. As users demand more complex data sets, the memory requirements for retrieving and storing large 3D models are becoming excessive. In addition, the current 3D rendering hardware is facing a large memory bus bandwidth bottleneck...	false	false	[ "Mike M. Chow" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,997	Pearls found on the way to the ideal interface for scanned probe microscopes	10.1109/VISUAL.1997.663923	Since 1991, our team of computer scientists, chemists and physicists have worked together to develop an advanced, virtual-environment interface to scanned-probe microscopes. The interface has provided insights and useful capabilities well beyond those of the traditional interface. This paper lists the particular visual...	false	false	[ "Russell M. Taylor II", "Jun Chen", "Shoji Okimoto", "Noel Llopis-Artime", "Vernon L. Chi", "Frederick P. Brooks Jr.", "Michael R. Falvo", "Scott Paulson", "Pichet Thiansathaporn", "David Glick", "Sean Washburn", "Richard Superfine" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,997	Perceptual Measures For Effective Visualizations	10.1109/VISUAL.1997.663934	How do we measure the effectiveness of visualizations? Clearly any metric has to be based on perceptual models, since we are measuring how a display is perceived and interpreted by a human being, Can we build useful metrics to evaluate the value of image content? Can we build metrics for user interaction that can feed ...	false	false	[ "Holly E. Rushmeier", "Harrison H. Barrett", "Penny Rheingans", "Samuel P. Uselton", "Andrew Watson" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,997	Principal stream surfaces	10.1109/VISUAL.1997.663859	The use of stream surfaces and streamlines is well established in vector visualization. However, the proper placement of starting points is critical for these constructs to clearly illustrate the flow topology. In this paper, we present the principal stream surface algorithm, which automatically generates stream surfac...	false	false	[ "Wenli Cai", "Pheng-Ann Heng" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,997	Repairing CAD models	10.1109/VISUAL.1997.663904	We describe an algorithm for repairing polyhedral CAD models that have errors in their B-REP. Errors like cracks, degeneracies, duplication, holes and overlaps are usually introduced in solid models due to imprecise arithmetic, model transformations, designer errors, programming bugs, etc. Such errors often hamper furt...	false	false	[ "Gill Barequet", "Subodh Kumar 0001" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,997	ROAMing terrain: Real-time Optimally Adapting Meshes	10.1109/VISUAL.1997.663860	Terrain visualization is a difficult problem for applications requiring accurate images of large datasets at high frame rates, such as flight simulation and ground-based aircraft testing using synthetic sensor simulation. On current graphics hardware, the problem is to maintain dynamic, view-dependent triangle meshes a...	false	false	[ "Mark A. Duchaineau", "Murray Wolinsky", "David E. Sigeti", "Mark C. Miller", "Charles Aldrich", "Mark B. Mineev-Weinstein" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,997	Simplifying polygonal models using successive mappings	10.1109/VISUAL.1997.663908	We present the use of mapping functions to automatically generate levels of detail with known error bounds for polygonal models. We develop a piece-wise linear mapping function for each simplification operation and use this function to measure deviation of the new surface from both the previous level of detail and from...	false	false	[ "Jonathan D. Cohen 0001", "Dinesh Manocha", "Marc Olano" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,997	Singularities in nonuniform tensor fields	10.1109/VISUAL.1997.663857	Studies the topology of 2nd-order symmetric tensor fields. Degenerate points are basic constituents of tensor fields. From the set of degenerate points, an experienced researcher can reconstruct a whole tensor field. We address the conditions for the existence of degenerate points and, based on these conditions, we pre...	false	false	[ "Yingmei Lavin", "Yuval Levy", "Lambertus Hesselink" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,997	Smooth hierarchical surface triangulations	10.1109/VISUAL.1997.663906	Presents a new method to produce a hierarchical set of triangle meshes that can be used to blend different levels of detail in a smooth fashion. The algorithm produces a sequence of meshes /spl Mscr//sub 0/, /spl Mscr//sub 1/, /spl Mscr//sub 2/..., /spl Mscr//sub n/, where each mesh /spl Mscr//sub i/ can be transformed...	false	false	[ "Tran S. Gieng", "Bernd Hamann", "Kenneth I. Joy", "Gregory L. Schussman", "Issac J. Trotts" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,997	Strategies for effectively visualizing 3D flow with volume LIC	10.1109/VISUAL.1997.663912	This paper discusses strategies for effectively portraying 3D flow using volume line integral convolution. Issues include defining an appropriate input texture, clarifying the distinct identities and relative depths of the advected texture elements, and selectively highlighting regions of interest in both the input and...	false	false	[ "Victoria Interrante", "Chester Grosch" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,997	Terascale Visualization: Approaches, Pitfalls And Issues	10.1109/VISUAL.1997.663932	Author(s): Cox, M. B.; Crawfis, Roger; Hamann, Bernd; Hanson, C.; Miller, Mark \| Editor(s): Yagel, R.; Hagen, Hans \| Abstract: Massively Parallel Supercomputers are once again quickly outpacing our ability to organize, manage and understand the prodigious amounts of data they generate. Graphics technology and algorithm...	false	false	[ "Carol L. Hunter", "Roger Crawfis", "Michael Cox", "Bernd Hamann", "Charles D. Hansen", "Mark C. Miller" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,997	The contour spectrum	10.1109/VISUAL.1997.663875	The authors introduce the contour spectrum, a user interface component that improves qualitative user interaction and provides real-time exact quantification in the visualization of isocontours. The contour spectrum is a signature consisting of a variety of scalar data and contour attributes, computed over the range of...	false	false	[ "Chandrajit L. Bajaj", "Valerio Pascucci", "Daniel Schikore" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,997	The motion map: efficient computation of steady flow animations	10.1109/VISUAL.1997.663899	The paper presents a new approach for animating 2D steady flow fields. It is based on an original data structure called the motion map. The motion map contains not only a dense representation of the flow field but also all the motion information required to animate the flow. An important feature of this method is that ...	false	false	[ "Bruno Jobard", "Wilfrid Lefer" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,997	The multilevel finite element method for adaptive mesh optimization and visualization of volume data	10.1109/VISUAL.1997.663907	Multilevel representations and mesh reduction techniques have been used for accelerating the processing and the rendering of large datasets representing scalar- or vector-valued functions defined on complex 2D or 3D meshes. We present a method based on finite element approximations which combines these two approaches i...	false	false	[ "Roberto Grosso", "Christoph Lürig", "Thomas Ertl" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,997	The VSBUFFER: visibility ordering of unstructured volume primitives by polygon drawing	10.1109/VISUAL.1997.663853	Different techniques have been proposed for rendering volumetric scalar data sets. Usually these approaches are focusing on orthogonal cartesian grids, but in the last years research did also concentrate on arbitrary structured or even unstructured topologies. In particular, direct volume rendering of these data types ...	false	false	[ "Rüdiger Westermann", "Thomas Ertl" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,997	Towards efficient visualization support for single-block and multi-block datasets	10.1109/VISUAL.1997.663913	Large simulation grids and multi-grid configurations impose many constraints on commercial visualization software. When available RAM is limited and graphics primitives are numbered in millions, alternative techniques for data access and processing are necessary. In this case study, we present our contributions to a vi...	false	false	[ "Jean-Marie Favre" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,997	Two-phase perspective ray casting for interactive volume navigation	10.1109/VISUAL.1997.663878	Volume navigation is the interactive exploration of volume data sets by "flying" the view point through the data, producing a volume rendered view at each frame. The authors present an inexpensive perspective volume navigation method designed to run on a PC platform with accelerated 3D graphics hardware. They compute p...	false	false	[ "Martin L. Brady", "Kenneth K. Jung", "H. T. Nguyen", "Thinh P. Q. Nguyen" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,997	UFLIC: a line integral convolution algorithm for visualizing unsteady flows	10.1109/VISUAL.1997.663898	The paper presents an algorithm, UFLIC (Unsteady Flow LIC), to visualize vector data in unsteady flow fields. Using line integral convolution (LIC) as the underlying method, a new convolution algorithm is proposed that can effectively trace the flow's global features over time. The new algorithm consists of a time-accu...	false	false	[ "Han-Wei Shen", "David L. Kao" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,997	Viewing IGES files through VRML	10.1109/VISUAL.1997.663924	This paper describes our experiences with using the Virtual Reality Modeling Language (VRML) to view files in the Initial Graphics Exchange Specification (IGES) format using a Java-based translator from IGES to VRML and HTML (Hypertext Markup Language). The paper examines the conversion problems between IGES and VRML a...	false	false	[ "Jed Marti" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,997	Virtualized reality: constructing time-varying virtual worlds from real world events	10.1109/VISUAL.1997.663893	Virtualized reality is a modeling technique that constructs full 3D virtual representations of dynamic events from multiple video streams. Image-based stereo is used to compute a range image corresponding to each intensity image in each video stream. Each range and intensity image pair encodes the scene structure and a...	false	false	[ "Peter Rander", "P. J. Narayanan", "Takeo Kanade" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,997	Visualization of geometric algorithms in an electronic classroom	10.1109/VISUAL.1997.663920	This paper investigates the visualization and animation of geometric computing in a distributed electronic classroom. We show how focusing in a well-defined domain makes it possible to develop a compact system that is accessible to even naive users. We present a conceptual model and a system, GASP-II (Geometric Animati...	false	false	[ "Maria Shneerson", "Ayellet Tal" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,997	Visualization of height field data with physical models and texture photomapping	10.1109/VISUAL.1997.663862	The paper discusses a unique way to visualize height field data-the use of solid fabricated parts with a photomapped texture to display scalar information. In this process, the data in a height field are turned into a 3D solid representation through solid freeform fabrication techniques, in this case laminated object m...	false	false	[ "Dru Clark", "Michael J. Bailey" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,997	Visualization of higher order singularities in vector fields	10.1109/VISUAL.1997.663858	Presents an algorithm for the visualization of vector field topology based on Clifford algebra. It allows the detection of higher-order singularities. This is accomplished by first analysing the possible critical points and then choosing a suitable polynomial approximation, because conventional methods based on piecewi...	false	false	[ "Gerik Scheuermann", "Hans Hagen", "Heinz Krüger", "Martin Menzel", "Alyn P. Rockwood" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,997	Visualization of large terrains in resource-limited computing environments	10.1109/VISUAL.1997.663863	The authors describe a software system supporting interactive visualization of large terrains in a resource-limited environment, i.e. a low-end client computer accessing a large terrain database server through a low-bandwidth network. By "large", they mean that the size of the terrain database is orders of magnitude la...	false	false	[ "Boris Rabinovich", "Craig Gotsman" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,997	Visualization of plant growth	10.1109/VISUAL.1997.663925	The measurement, analysis and visualization of plant growth is of primary interest to plant biologists. We are developing software tools to support such investigations. There are two parts in this investigation, namely growth visualization of (i) a plant root and (ii) a plant stem. For both domains, the input data is a...	false	false	[ "Jeremy J. Loomis", "Xiuwen Liu", "Zhaohua Ding", "Kikuo Fujimura", "Michael L. Evans", "Hideo Ishikawa" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,997	Visualization of rotation fields	10.1109/VISUAL.1997.663929	We define a rotation field by extending the notion of a vector field to rotations. A vector field has a vector as a value at each point of its domain; a rotation field has a rotation as a value at each point of its domain. Rotation fields result from mapping the orientation error of tracking systems. We build upon prev...	false	false	[ "Mark A. Livingston" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,997	Visualizing the behaviour of higher dimensional dynamical systems	10.1109/VISUAL.1997.663867	In recent years scientific visualization has been driven by the need to visualize high-dimensional data sets within high-dimensional spaces. However most visualization methods are designed to show only some statistical features of the data set. The paper deals with the visualization of trajectories of high-dimensional ...	false	false	[ "Rainer Wegenkittl", "Helwig Löffelmann", "M. Eduard Gröller" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,997	VizWiz: a Java applet for interactive 3D scientific visualization on the Web	10.1109/VISUAL.1997.663891	VizWiz is a Java applet that provides basic interactive scientific visualization functionality, such as isosurfaces, cutting planes, and elevation plots, for 2D and 3D datasets that can be loaded into the applet by the user via, the applet's Web server. VizWiz is unique in that it is a completely platform independent s...	false	false	[ "Cherilyn Michaels", "Michael J. Bailey" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,997	Volume rendering of abdominal aortic aneurysms	10.1109/VISUAL.1997.663855	One well known application area of volume rendering is the reconstruction and visualization of output from medical scanners like computed tomography (CT). 2D greyscale slices produced by these scanners can be reconstructed and displayed onscreen as a 3D model. Volume visualization of medical images must address two imp...	false	false	[ "Roger C. Tam", "Christopher G. Healey", "Borys Flak", "Peter Cahoon" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,997	Vortex identification-applications in aerodynamics: a case study	10.1109/VISUAL.1997.663910	An eigenvector method for vortex identification has been applied to recent numerical and experimental studies in external flow aerodynamics. It is shown to be an effective way to extract and visualize features such as vortex cores, spiral vortex breakdowns, vortex bursting, and vortex diffusion. Several problems are re...	false	false	[ "David N. Kenwright", "Robert Haimes" ]	[ "BCS" ]	[]	[]
Vis	1,997	Wavelet-based multiresolutional representation of computational field simulation datasets	10.1109/VISUAL.1997.663872	The paper addresses multiresolutional representation of datasets arising from a computational field simulation. The approach determines the regions of interest, breaks the volume into variable size blocks to localize the information, and then codes each block using a wavelet transform. The blocks are then ranked by vis...	false	false	[ "Zhifan Zhu", "Raghu Machiraju", "Bryan Fry", "Robert J. Moorhead II" ]	[]	[]	[]
InfoVis	1,997	A spreadsheet approach to information visualization	10.1109/INFVIS.1997.636761	In information visualization, as the volume and complexity of the data increases, researchers require more powerful visualization tools that enable them to more effectively explore multidimensional datasets. We discuss the general utility of a novel visualization spreadsheet framework. Just as a numerical spreadsheet e...	false	false	[ "Ed H. Chi", "Phillip Barry", "John Riedl", "Joseph A. Konstan" ]	[]	[]	[]
InfoVis	1,997	Adaptive information visualization based on the user's multiple viewpoints - interactive 3D visualization of the WWW	10.1109/INFVIS.1997.636778	We introduce the adaptive information visualization method for hypermedia and the WWW based on the user's multiple viewpoints. We propose two graphical interfaces, the CVI and the RF-Cone. The CVI is the interface for interactive viewpoint selection. We can select a viewpoint reflecting our interests by using the CVI. ...	false	false	[ "Teruhiko Teraoka", "Minoru Maruyama" ]	[]	[]	[]
InfoVis	1,997	Cacti: a front end for program visualization	10.1109/INFVIS.1997.636785	We describe a system that allows the user to rapidly construct program visualizations over a variety of data sources. Such a system is a necessary foundation for using visualization as an aid to software understanding. The system supports an arbitrary set of data sources so that information from both static and dynamic...	false	false	[ "Steven P. Reiss" ]	[]	[]	[]
InfoVis	1,997	Coordinating declarative queries with a direct manipulation data exploration environment	10.1109/INFVIS.1997.636788	Interactive visualization techniques allow data exploration to be a continuous process, rather than a discrete sequence of queries and results as in traditional database systems. However limitations in expressive power of current visualization systems force users to go outside the system and form a new dataset in order...	false	false	[ "Mark Derthick", "Steven F. Roth", "John Kolojejchick" ]	[]	[]	[]
InfoVis	1,997	Design and evaluation of incremental data structures and algorithms for dynamic query interfaces	10.1109/INFVIS.1997.636790	A dynamic query interface (DQI) is a database access mechanism that provides continuous real-time feedback to the user during query formulation. Previous work shows that DQIs are elegant and powerful interfaces to small databases. Unfortunately, when applied to large databases, previous DQI algorithms slow to a crawl. ...	false	false	[ "Egemen Tanin", "Richard Beigel", "Ben Shneiderman" ]	[]	[]	[]
InfoVis	1,997	Domesticating Bead: adapting an information visualization system to a financial institution	10.1109/INFVIS.1997.636789	The Bead visualization system employs a fast algorithm for laying out high-dimensional data in a low-dimensional space, and a number of features added to 3D visualizations to improve imageability. We describe recent work on both aspects of the system, in particular a generalization of the data types laid out and the im...	false	false	[ "Dominique Brodbeck", "Matthew Chalmers", "Aran Lunzer", "Pamela Cotture" ]	[]	[]	[]
InfoVis	1,997	H3: laying out large directed graphs in 3D hyperbolic space	10.1109/INFVIS.1997.636718	We present the H3 layout technique for drawing large directed graphs as node-link diagrams in 3D hyperbolic space. We can lay out much larger structures than can be handled using traditional techniques for drawing general graphs because we assume a hierarchical nature of the data. We impose a hierarchy on the graph by ...	false	false	[ "Tamara Munzner" ]	[]	[]	[]
InfoVis	1,997	Managing multiple focal levels in Table Lens	10.1109/INFVIS.1997.636787	The Table Lens, focus+context visualization for large data tables, allows users to see 100 times as many data values as a spreadsheet in the same screen space in a manner that enables an extremely immediate form of exploratory data analysis. In the original Table Lens design, data are shown in the context area using gr...	false	false	[ "Tichomir Tenev", "Ramana Rao" ]	[]	[]	[]
InfoVis	1,997	Managing software with new visual representations	10.1109/INFVIS.1997.636782	Managing large projects is a very challenging task requiring the tracking and scheduling of many resources. Although new technologies have made it possible to automatically collect data on project resources, it is very difficult to access this data because of its size and lack of structure. We present three novel glyph...	false	false	[ "Mei C. Chuah", "Stephen G. Eick" ]	[]	[]	[]
InfoVis	1,997	Metrics for effective information visualization	10.1109/INFVIS.1997.636794	Metrics for information visualization will help designers create and evaluate 3D information visualizations. Based on experience from 60+ 3D information visualizations, the metrics we propose are: number of data points and data density; number of dimensions and cognitive overhead; occlusion percentage; and reference co...	false	false	[ "Richard Brath" ]	[]	[]	[]
InfoVis	1,997	Multidimensional detective	10.1109/INFVIS.1997.636793	The display of multivariate datasets in parallel coordinates, transforms the search for relations among the variables into a 2-D pattern recognition problem. This is the basis for the application to visual data mining. The knowledge discovery process together with some general guidelines are illustrated on a dataset fr...	false	false	[ "Alfred Inselberg" ]	[]	[]	[]
InfoVis	1,997	Nonlinear magnification fields	10.1109/INFVIS.1997.636786	We introduce nonlinear magnification fields as an abstract representation of nonlinear magnification, providing methods for converting transformation routines to magnification fields and vice-versa. This new representation provides ease of manipulation and power of expression. By removing the restrictions of explicit f...	false	false	[ "Alan Keahey", "Edward L. Robertson" ]	[]	[]	[]
InfoVis	1,997	On integrating visualization techniques for effective software exploration	10.1109/INFVIS.1997.636784	This paper describes the SHriMP visualization technique for seamlessly exploring software structure and browsing source code, with a focus on effectively assisting hybrid program comprehension strategies. The technique integrates both pan+zoom and fisheye-view visualization approaches for exploring a nested graph view ...	false	false	[ "Margaret-Anne D. Storey", "Kenny Wong", "F. David Fracchia", "Hausi A. Müller" ]	[]	[]	[]
InfoVis	1,997	The structure of the information visualization design space	10.1109/INFVIS.1997.636792	Research on information visualization has reached the point where a number of successful point designs have been proposed and a variety of techniques have been discovered. It is now appropriate to describe and analyze portions of the design space so as to understand the differences among designs and to suggest new poss...	false	false	[ "Stuart K. Card", "Jock D. Mackinlay" ]	[ "TT" ]	[]	[]
InfoVis	1,997	Visualizing information on a sphere	10.1109/INFVIS.1997.636759	We describe a method for the visualization of information units on spherical domains which is employed in the banking industry for risk analysis, stock prediction and other tasks. The system is based on a quantification of the similarity of related objects that governs the parameters of a mass-spring system. Unlike exi...	false	false	[ "Markus H. Gross", "Thomas C. Sprenger", "J. Finger" ]	[]	[]	[]
InfoVis	1,997	Volume rendering for relational data	10.1109/INFVIS.1997.636791	A method for efficiently volume rendering dense scatterplots of relational data is described. Plotting difficulties that arise from large numbers of data points, categorical variables, interaction with non-axis dimensions, and unknown values, are addressed by this method. The domain of the plot is voxelized using binni...	false	false	[ "Barry G. Becker" ]	[]	[]	[]
CHI	1,997	Balancing Usability and Learning in an Interface	10.1145/258549.258995	Creating educational software forces a difficult tradeoff. The software must be easy for the students to use, yet not so simple that the parts that students are to learn from are done for them by the computer. DEVICE (Dynamic Environment for Visualization of Chemical Engineering) is a learning environment aimed at allo...	false	false	[ "Noel Rappin", "Mark Guzdial", "Matthew J. Realff", "Pete Ludovice" ]	[]	[]	[]
CHI	1,997	Bringing Treasures to the Surface: Iterative Design for the Library of Congress National Digital Library Program	10.1145/258549.259009	ABSTRACT The Human-Computer Interaction Lab worked with a team for the Library of Congress (LC) to develop and test interface designs for LC's National Digital Library Program. Three iterations are described and illustrate the progression of the project toward a compact design that minimizes scrolling and jumping and a...	false	false	[ "Catherine Plaisant", "Gary Marchionini", "Tom Bruns", "Anita Komlodi", "Laura Campbell" ]	[]	[]	[]
CHI	1,997	Characterizing Interactive Externalizations	10.1145/258549.258803	This paper seeks to characterize the space of techniques that exist for interactive externalisations (visualizations). A selection of visualizations are classified with respect to: the types of data represented, the nature of the visible feedback displayed and the forms of interactivity used. Such characterization prov...	false	false	[ "Lisa Tweedie" ]	[]	[]	[]
CHI	1,997	Putting Visualization to Work: ProgramFinder for Youth Placement	10.1145/258549.259003	The Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory (HCIL) and the Maryland Department of Juvenile Justice (DJJ) have been working together to develop the ProgramFinder, a tool for choosing programs for a troubled youth from drug rehabilitation centers to secure residential facilities. The seemingly straightforward journey of th...	false	false	[ "Jason B. Ellis", "Anne Rose", "Catherine Plaisant" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,996	A 3D Contextual Shading Method for Visualization of Diecasting Defects	10.1109/VISUAL.1996.568143	In many mechanical design-related activities, the visualization tool needs to convey not only the shape of the objects, but also their interior problem regions. Due to the binary nature of these models, existing shading models often fall short of supporting a realistic display. In this case study, we present several ne...	false	false	[ "Shao-Chiung Lu", "Alec B. Rebello", "D. H. Cui", "Roni Yagel", "Richard Allen Miller", "Gary L. Kinzel" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,996	A fast Gibbs sampler for synthesizing constrained fractals	10.1109/VISUAL.1996.567598	It is well known that the spatial frequency spectra of membrane and thin-plate splines exhibit self-affine characteristics and hence behave as fractals. This behavior was exploited in generating the constrained fractal surfaces in the work of Szeliski and Terzopoulos (1989), which were generated by using a Gibbs sample...	false	false	[ "Baba C. Vemuri", "Chhandomay Mandal" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,996	A haptic interaction method for volume visualization	10.1109/VISUAL.1996.568108	Volume visualization techniques typically provide support for visual exploration of data, however additional information can be conveyed by allowing a user to see as well as feel virtual objects. We present a haptic interaction method that is suitable for both volume visualization and modeling applications. Point conta...	false	false	[ "Ricardo S. Avila", "Lisa M. Sobierajski" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,996	A linear iteration time layout algorithm for visualising high-dimensional data	10.1109/VISUAL.1996.567787	A technique is presented for the layout of high dimensional data in a low dimensional space. This technique builds upon the force based methods that have been used previously to make visualisations of various types of data such as bibliographies and sets of software modules. The canonical force based model, related to ...	false	false	[ "Matthew Chalmers" ]	[]	[]	[]
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" ]	[]	[]	[]

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