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Vis	1,995	Virtual GIS: a real-time 3D geographic information system	10.1109/VISUAL.1995.480800	Advances in computer graphics hardware and algorithms, visualization, and interactive techniques for analysis offer the components for a highly integrated, efficient real-time 3D Geographic Information System. We have developed "Virtual GIS", a system with truly immersive capability for navigating and understanding com...	false	false	[ "David Koller", "Peter Lindstrom 0001", "William Ribarsky", "Larry F. Hodges", "Nickolas Faust", "Gregory A. Turner" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,995	Visualization for aerodynamic design of helicopter rotor blades	10.1109/VISUAL.1995.485150	Visualization, animation, and simulation techniques are applied to the problem of rotor design for helicopters. Periodic unsteady experimental velocity data (laser Doppler velocimetry or LDV) in two dimensions and velocity data derived from simulated vortex systems in three dimensions are compared using the same visual...	false	false	[ "G. David Kerlick" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,995	Visualization of biological sequence similarity search results	10.1109/VISUAL.1995.480794	Biological sequence similarity analysis presents visualization challenges, primarily because of the massive amounts of discrete, multi dimensional data. Genomic data generated by molecular biologists is analyzed by algorithms that search for similarity to known sequences in large genomic databases. The output from thes...	false	false	[ "Ed H. Chi", "Phillip Barry", "Elizabeth Shoop", "John V. Carlis", "Ernest F. Retzel", "John Riedl" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,995	Visualization of high speed aerodynamic configuration design	10.1109/VISUAL.1995.485151	Three topics of aerodynamic research at DLR are chosen to illustrate the need for visualization. These include aircraft configuration design variations, adaptation devices and unsteady flow simulation in the transonic, the supersonic and the hypersonic speed regime call for the combined use of a geometry generator, a p...	false	false	[ "Monika Hannemann", "Helmut Sobieczky" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,995	Visualizing the tracking and diving behavior of marine mammals: a case study	10.1109/VISUAL.1995.485170	A new method of tracking free ranging marine mammals has been developed which employs a Global Positioning System (GPS) receiver to accurately fix an animal's position when it surfaces and a tri axial magnetometer and velocity time depth recorder to track the animals underwater movements between surfacings in 3 dimensi...	false	false	[ "Guy W. Oliver" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,995	Volume-based reasoning and visualization of diecastability	10.1109/VISUAL.1995.485152	Because of the nature of the die casting process, the part geometry severely restricts the die geometry and hence affects the quality of the part. However, as is often the case in other manufacturing processes, diecastings are currently designed purely based on their function. The manufacturability of the diecastings i...	false	false	[ "Roni Yagel", "Shao-Chiung Lu", "Alec B. Rebello", "Richard Allen Miller" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,995	Voxel based object simplification	10.1109/VISUAL.1995.485142	Presents a simple, robust and practical method for object simplification for applications where gradual elimination of high-frequency details is desired. This is accomplished by sampling and low-pass filtering the object into multi-resolution volume buffers and applying the marching cubes algorithm to generate a multi-...	false	false	[ "Taosong He", "Lichan Hong", "Arie E. Kaufman", "Amitabh Varshney", "Sidney W. Wang" ]	[]	[]	[]
InfoVis	1,995	Case study. A WWW viewpoint on scientific visualization: an EPA case study for technology transfer	10.1109/INFVIS.1995.528694	The paper examines how to provide scientific visualization capabilities to environmental scientists, policy analysts and decision makers with personal computers (PCs) on their desktops. An approach for using the World Wide Web (WWW) for disseminating knowledge on scientific visualization and for intelligent access to v...	false	false	[ "Theresa-Marie Rhyne" ]	[]	[]	[]
InfoVis	1,995	Case study. Narcissus: visualising information	10.1109/INFVIS.1995.528691	It is becoming increasingly important that support is provided for users who are dealing with complex information spaces. The need is driven by the growing number of domains where there is a requirement for users to understand, navigate and manipulate large sets of computer based data; by the increasing size and comple...	false	false	[ "Robert J. Hendley", "Nick S. Drew", "Andrew Wood", "Russell Beale" ]	[]	[]	[]
InfoVis	1,995	Case study. Visualising cyberspace: information visualisation in the Harmony Internet browser	10.1109/INFVIS.1995.528692	The explosive growth of information systems on the Internet has clearly demonstrated the need to organise, filter, and present information in ways which allow users to cope with the sheer quantities of information available. The scope for visualisation of Gopher and WWW spaces is restricted by the limitations of their ...	false	false	[ "K. Andrews" ]	[]	[]	[]
InfoVis	1,995	Case study: 3D displays of Internet traffic	10.1109/INFVIS.1995.528697	The explosive growth in world-wide communications, especially the Internet, has highlighted the need for techniques to visualize network traffic. The traditional node and link network displays work well for small datasets but become visually cluttered and uninterpretable for large datasets. A natural 3D metaphor for di...	false	false	[ "Kenneth C. Cox", "Stephen G. Eick" ]	[]	[]	[]
InfoVis	1,995	Case study: an empirical investigation of thumbnail image recognition	10.1109/INFVIS.1995.528695	The use of thumbnails (i.e., miniatures) in the user-interface of image databases allows searching and selection of images without the need for naming policies. Treating parent images prior to reduction with edge-detecting smoothing, lossy image compression, or static codebook compression resulted in thumbnails where t...	false	false	[ "C. A. Burton", "L. J. Johnston", "Liz Sonenberg" ]	[]	[]	[]
InfoVis	1,995	Case study: fishing for information on the Internet	10.1109/INFVIS.1995.528693	As the Internet continues to grow, the amount of accessible information becomes increasingly vast. Search tools exist that allow users to find relevant information. However, a search can often produce such a large amount of data that it becomes hard to ferret out the most appropriate and highest quality information. In...	false	false	[ "R. Mitchell", "David S. Day", "Lynette Hirschman" ]	[]	[]	[]
InfoVis	1,995	Case study: visualizing Internet resources	10.1109/INFVIS.1995.528696	The goal is to improve the ability of people from all walks of life and interests to access, search, and use the information distributed in Internet resources. The process of interacting with information resources starts with browsing, continues with digesting and assimilating pieces of information, terminates with gen...	false	false	[ "Nahum D. Gershon", "Joshua LeVasseur", "Joel Winstead", "J. Croall", "A. Pernicks", "William Ruh" ]	[]	[]	[]
InfoVis	1,995	IVEE: an Information Visualization and Exploration Environment	10.1109/INFVIS.1995.528688	The Information Visualization and Exploration Environment (NEE) is a system for automatic creation of dynamic queries applications. IVEE imports database relations and automatically creates environments holding visualizations and query devices. IVEE offers multiple visualizations such as maps and starfields, and multip...	false	false	[ "Christopher Ahlberg", "Erik Wistrand" ]	[]	[]	[]
InfoVis	1,995	Research report. DataSpace: 3-D visualizations of large databases	10.1109/INFVIS.1995.528690	DataSpace is a system for interactive 3-D visualization and analysis of large databases. DataSpace utilizes the display space by placing panels of information, possibly generated by different visualization applications, in a 3-D graph layout, and providing continuous navigation facilities. Selective rearrangements and ...	false	false	[ "Vinod Anupam", "Shaul Dar", "Ted Leibfried", "Eric Petajan" ]	[]	[]	[]
InfoVis	1,995	Research report. Interacting with huge hierarchies: beyond cone trees	10.1109/INFVIS.1995.528689	The paper describes an implementation of a tool for visualizing and interacting with huge information hierarchies, and some preliminary empirical evaluation of the tool's efficacy. Existing systems for visualizing huge hierarchies using cone trees "break down" once the hierarchy to be displayed exceeds roughly 1000 nod...	false	false	[ "S. Jeromy Carrière", "Rick Kazman" ]	[]	[]	[]
InfoVis	1,995	Research report: improving browsing in information by the automatic display layout	10.1109/INFVIS.1995.528683	It is well known that graphical representations could be very helpful to browse in graph structured information. But this promising approach requires the capability of an automatic layout system because the tedious and time consuming task of a manual layout leads to a rejection of this approach by the user. In our appr...	false	false	[ "Peter Lüders", "Rolf Ernst" ]	[]	[]	[]
InfoVis	1,995	Research report: information animation applications in the capital markets	10.1109/INFVIS.1995.528682	3D computer graphics can be extremely expressive. It is possible to display an entire securities market, like the S&P 500, on a single screen. With the correct approach to the visual design of the layout, these massive amounts of information can be quickly and easily comprehended by a human observer. By using motio...	false	false	[ "W. Wright" ]	[]	[]	[]
InfoVis	1,995	SDM: malleable information graphics	10.1109/INFVIS.1995.528684	Selective dynamic manipulation (SDM) is a paradigm for interacting with objects in visualizations. Its methods offer a high degree of selectivity, in choosing object sets, in the selection of interactive techniques and the properties they affect, and in the degree to which a user action affects the visualization. Our g...	false	false	[ "Mei C. Chuah", "Steven F. Roth", "Joe Mattis", "John Kolojejchick" ]	[]	[]	[]
InfoVis	1,995	The information mural: a technique for displaying and navigating large information spaces	10.1109/INFVIS.1995.528685	Visualizations which depict entire information spaces provide context for navigation and browsing tasks; however, the limited size of the display screen makes creating effective global views difficult. We have developed a technique for displaying and navigating large information spaces. The key concept is the use of an...	false	false	[ "Dean F. Jerding", "John T. Stasko" ]	[]	[]	[]
InfoVis	1,995	Towards a generative theory of diagram design	10.1109/INFVIS.1995.528681	We describe the theoretical background for AVE, an automatic visualization engine for semantic networks. We have a functional notion of aesthetics and therefore understand meaningfulness as a central issue for information visualization. This implies that the diagrams should communicate the characteristics of the data a...	false	false	[ "Klaus Reichenberger", "Thomas Kamps", "Gene Golovchinsky" ]	[]	[]	[]
InfoVis	1,995	Visualisation for functional design	10.1109/INFVIS.1995.528680	We present two novel visualisation tools: the Influence Explorer and the Prosection Matrix. These were specifically created to support engineering artifact design and similar tasks in which a set of parameter values must be chosen to lead to acceptable artifact performance. These tools combine two concepts. One is the ...	false	false	[ "Robert Spence", "Lisa Tweedie", "Huw Dawkes", "Hua Su" ]	[]	[]	[]
InfoVis	1,995	Visualizing the non-visual: spatial analysis and interaction with information from text documents	10.1109/INFVIS.1995.528686	The paper describes an approach to IV that involves spatializing text content for enhanced visual browsing and analysis. The application arena is large text document corpora such as digital libraries, regulations and procedures, archived reports, etc. The basic idea is that text content from these sources may be transf...	false	false	[ "James A. Wise", "James J. Thomas", "Kelly Pennock", "David Lantrip", "Marc Pottier", "Anne Schur", "Vern Crow" ]	[ "TT" ]	[]	[]
InfoVis	1,995	VRMosaic: WEB access from within a virtual environment	10.1109/INFVIS.1995.528687	Virtual reality can aid in designing large and complex structures such as ships, skyscrapers, factories, and aircraft. But before VR can realize this potential, we need to solve a number of problems. One of these problems: the user's need to see and interact with non-geometric information is examined. Our VR environmen...	false	false	[ "Ian G. Angus", "Henry Sowizral" ]	[]	[]	[]
CHI	1,995	A Focus+Context Technique Based on Hyperbolic Geometry for Visualizing Large Hierarchies	10.1145/223904.223956	We present a new focus+context (fisheye) technique for visualizing and manipulating large hierarchies. Our technique assigns more display space to a portion of the hierarchy while still embedding it in the context of the entire hierarchy. The essence of this scheme is to lay out the hierarchy in a uniform way on a hype...	false	false	[ "John Lamping", "Ramana Rao", "Peter Pirolli" ]	[]	[]	[]
CHI	1,995	An Organic User Interface for Searching Citation Links	10.1145/223904.223913	This paper describes Butterfly, an Information Visualizer application for accessing DIALOG'S Science Citation databases across the Internet. Network information often involves slow access that conflicts with the use of highly-interactive information visualization. Butterfly addresses this problem, integrating search, b...	false	false	[ "Jock D. Mackinlay", "Ramana Rao", "Stuart K. Card" ]	[]	[]	[]
CHI	1,995	Articulating a Metaphor through User-Centered Design	10.1145/223904.223981	TabWorksTM book metaphor enhances the standard WindowsTM user interface, providing an alternative way to organize applications and documents in a familiar, easy to use environment. The TabWorks interface was designed collaboratively by IDEO and XSoft and was based on a concept developed at Xerox PARe. This briefing des...	false	false	[ "H. J. Moll-Carrillo", "Gitta Salomon", "Matthew Marsh", "Jane Fulton Suri", "Peter Spreenberg" ]	[]	[]	[]
CHI	1,995	Bridging the Gulf Between Code and Behavior in Programming	10.1145/223904.223969	Program debugging can be an expensive, complex and frustrating process. Conventional programming environments provide little explicit support for the cognitive tasks of diagnosis and visualization faced by the programmer.	false	false	[ "Henry Lieberman", "Christopher Fry" ]	[]	[]	[]
CHI	1,995	Electronic Futures Markets versus Floor Trading: Implications for Interface Design	10.1145/223904.223942	The primary concern in designing an interface for an electronic trading system is the impact on market liquidity [9]. Current systems make use of efficient order-execution algorithms but fail to capture elements of the trading floor that contribute to an efficient market [9]. We briefly describe tasks conducted in futu...	false	false	[ "Satu S. Parikh", "Gerald L. Lohse" ]	[]	[]	[]
CHI	1,995	GeoSpace: An Interactive Visualization System for Exploring Complex Information Spaces	10.1145/223904.223959	This paper presents a reactive interface display which allows information seekers to explore complex information spaces. We have adopted information seeking dialogue as a fundamental model of interaction and implemented a prototype system in the mapping domain-GeoSpace-which progressively provides information upon a us...	false	false	[ "Ishantha Lokuge", "Suguru Ishizaki" ]	[]	[]	[]
CHI	1,995	Providing Assurances in a Multimedia Interactive Environment	10.1145/223904.223936	In ordinary telephone calls, we rely on cues for the assurance that the connection is active and that the other party is listening to what we are saying. For instance, noise on the line (whether it be someone's voice, traffic sounds, or background static from a bad connection) tells us about the state of our connection...	false	false	[ "Dorée D. Seligmann", "Rebecca Mercuri", "John T. Edmark" ]	[]	[]	[]
CHI	1,995	Space-Scale Diagrams: Understanding Multiscale Interfaces	10.1145/223904.223934	Big information worlds cause big problems for interfaces. There is too much to see. They are hard to navigate. An armada of techniques has been proposed to present the many scales of information needed. Space-scale diagrams provide an analytic framework for much of this work. By representing both a spatial world and it...	false	false	[ "George W. Furnas", "Benjamin B. Bederson" ]	[]	[]	[]
CHI	1,995	TileBars: Visualization of Term Distribution Information in Full Text Information Access	10.1145/223904.223912	The field of information retrieval has traditionally focused on textbases consisting of titles and abstracts. As a consequence, many underlying assumptions must be altered for retrieval from full-length text collections. This paper argues for making use of text structure when retrieving from full text documents, and pr...	false	false	[ "Marti A. Hearst" ]	[]	[]	[]
CHI	1,995	Virtual Reality on a WIM: Interactive Worlds in Miniature	10.1145/223904.223938	This paper explores a user interface technique which augments an immersive head tracked display with a hand-held miniature copy of the virtual environment. We call this interface technique the Worlds in Miniature (WIM) metaphor. By establishing a direct relationship between life-size objects in the virtual world and mi...	false	false	[ "Richard Stoakley", "Matthew Conway", "Randy F. Pausch" ]	[]	[]	[]
CHI	1,995	Visualizing Complex Hypermedia Networks through Multiple Hierarchical Views	10.1145/223904.223947	Our work concerns visualizing the information space of hypermedia systems using multiple hierarchical views. Although overview diagrams are useful for helping the user to navigate in a hypermedia system, for any real-world system they become too complicated and large to be really useful. This is because these diagrams ...	false	false	[ "Sougata Mukherjea", "James D. Foley", "Scott E. Hudson" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,994	3D visualization of unsteady 2D airplane wake vortices	10.1109/VISUAL.1994.346328	Air flowing around the wing tips of an airplane forms horizontal tornado-like vortices that can be dangerous to following aircraft. The dynamics of such vortices, including ground and atmospheric effects, can be predicted by numerical simulation, allowing the safety and capacity of airports to be improved. We introduce...	false	false	[ "Kwan-Liu Ma", "Z. C. Zheng" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,994	A case study on visualization for boundary value problems	10.1109/VISUAL.1994.346299	In this paper we present a method, and a software based on this method, making highly inter-active visualization possible for computational results on nonlinear BVPs associated with ODEs. The program PCR relies partly on computer graphics tools and partly on real-time computations, the combination of which not only hel...	false	false	[ "Gábor Domokos", "Randy C. Paffenroth" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,994	A distributed, parallel, interactive volume rendering package	10.1109/VISUAL.1994.346341	This paper presents a parallel ray-casting volume rendering algorithm and its implementation on the massively parallel IBM SP-1 computer using the Chameleon message passing library. Though this algorithm takes advantage of many of the unique features of the SP-1 (e.g. high-speed switch, large memory per node, high-spee...	false	false	[ "John S. Rowlan", "G. Edward Lent", "Nihar Gokhale", "Shannon Bradshaw" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,994	A lattice model for data display	10.1109/VISUAL.1994.346304	In order to develop a foundation for visualization, we develop lattice models for data objects and displays that focus on the fact that data objects are approximations to mathematical objects and real displays are approximations to ideal displays. These lattice models give us a way to quantize the information content o...	false	false	[ "Bill Hibbard", "Charles R. Dyer", "Brian E. Paul" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,994	A library for visualizing combinatorial structures	10.1109/VISUAL.1994.346323	Describes ANIM3D, a 3D animation library targeted at visualizing combinatorial structures. In particular, we are interested in algorithm animation. Constructing a new view for an algorithm typically takes dozens of design iterations, and can be very time-consuming. Our library eases the programmer's burden by providing...	false	false	[ "Marc Najork", "Marc H. Brown" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,994	An annotation system for 3D fluid flow visualization	10.1109/VISUAL.1994.346309	Annotation is a key activity of data analysis. However, current data analysis systems focus almost exclusively on visualization. We propose a system which integrates annotations into a visualization system. Annotations are embedded in 3D data space, using the Post-it metaphor. This embedding allows contextual-based inf...	false	false	[ "Maria M. Loughlin", "John F. Hughes" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,994	An evaluation of reconstruction filters for volume rendering	10.1109/VISUAL.1994.346331	To render images from a three-dimensional array of sample values, it is necessary to interpolate between the samples. This paper is concerned with interpolation methods that are equivalent to convolving the samples with a reconstruction filter; this covers all commonly used schemes, including trilinear and cubic interp...	false	false	[ "Steve Marschner", "Richard Lobb" ]	[ "TT" ]	[]	[]
Vis	1,994	An object oriented design for the visualization of multi-variable data objects	10.1109/VISUAL.1994.346303	This paper presents an object-oriented system design supporting the composition of scientific data visualization techniques based on the definition of hierarchies of typed data objects and tools. Traditional visualization systems focus on creating graphical objects which often cannot be re-used for further processing. ...	false	false	[ "Jean-Marie Favre", "James K. Hahn" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,994	Approximation of isosurface in the Marching Cube: ambiguity problem	10.1109/VISUAL.1994.346307	The purpose of the article is the consideration of the problem of ambiguity over the faces arising in the Marching Cube algorithm. The article shows that for unambiguous choice of the sequence of the points of intersection of the isosurface with edges confining the face it is sufficient to sort them along one of the co...	false	false	[ "Sergey V. Matveyev" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,994	Challenges and opportunities in visualization for NASA's EOS Mission to Planet Earth	10.1109/VISUAL.1994.346289	Visualization will be vital to the success of the NASA EOS Mission to Planet Earth (MTPE), which will gather, generate, and distribute an unprecedented volume of data for the purpose of global change research and environmental policy decisions. The paper focuses on the challenges and opportunities for visualization wit...	false	false	[ "Mike E. Botts", "Jon D. Dykstra", "Lee S. Elson", "Steven J. Goodman", "Meemong Lee" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,994	Differential volume rendering: a fast volume visualization technique for flow animation	10.1109/VISUAL.1994.346321	We present a direct volume rendering algorithm to speed up volume animation for flow visualizations. Data coherency between consecutive simulation time steps is used to avoid casting rays from those pixels retaining color values assigned to the previous image. The algorithm calculates the differential information among...	false	false	[ "Han-Wei Shen", "Christopher R. Johnson 0001" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,994	Discretized Marching Cubes	10.1109/VISUAL.1994.346308	Since the introduction of standard techniques for isosurface extraction from volumetric datasets, one of the hardest problems has been to reduce the number of triangles (or polygons) generated. The paper presents an algorithm that considerably reduces the number of polygons generated by a Marching Cubes-like scheme (W....	false	false	[ "Claudio Montani", "Riccardo Scateni", "Roberto Scopigno" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,994	Fast surface rendering from raster data by voxel traversal using chessboard distance	10.1109/VISUAL.1994.346320	The increasing distinguishing capability of tomographic and other 3D scanners as well as the new voxelization algorithms place new demands on visualization techniques aimed at interactivity and rendition quality. Among others, triangulation on a subvoxel level based on the marching cube algorithm has gained popularity ...	false	false	[ "Milos Srámek" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,994	Feature detection from vector quantities in a numerically simulated hypersonic flow field in combination with experimental flow visualization	10.1109/VISUAL.1994.346329	In computational fluid dynamics visualization is a frequently used tool for data evaluation, understanding of flow characteristics, and qualitative comparison to flow visualizations originating from experiments. Building on an existing visualization software system, that allows for a careful selection of state-of-the-a...	false	false	[ "Hans-Georg Pagendarm", "Birgit Walter" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,994	GASP-a system for visualizing geometric algorithms	10.1109/VISUAL.1994.346325	This paper describes a system, GASP, that facilitates the visualization of geometric algorithms. The user need not have any knowledge of computer graphics in order to quickly generate a visualization. The system is also intended to facilitate the task of implementing and debugging geometric algorithms. The viewer is pr...	false	false	[ "Ayellet Tal", "David P. Dobkin" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,994	Implicit modeling of swept surfaces and volumes	10.1109/VISUAL.1994.346339	Swept surfaces and volumes are generated by moving a geometric model through space. Swept surfaces and volumes are important in many computer-aided design applications including geometric modeling, numerical cutter path generation, and spatial path planning. In this paper we describe a numerical algorithm to generate s...	false	false	[ "William J. Schroeder", "William E. Lorensen", "Steve Linthicum" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,994	Integrated control of distributed volume visualization through the World-Wide-Web	10.1109/VISUAL.1994.346342	The World-Wide-Web (WWW) has created a new paradigm for online information retrieval by providing immediate and ubiquitous access to digital information of any type from data repositories located throughout the world. The web's development enables not only effective access for the generic user but also more efficient a...	false	false	[ "Cheong S. Ang", "David C. Martin", "Michael D. Doyle" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,994	Integrating spatial data display with virtual reconstruction	10.1109/VISUAL.1994.346296	In the process of archaeological excavation, a vast amount of data, much of it three-dimensional in nature, is recorded. In recent years, computer graphics techniques have been applied to the task of visualizing such data. In particular, data visualization has been used to accomplish the virtual reconstruction of site ...	false	false	[ "Philip Peterson", "Brian Hayden", "F. David Fracchia" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,994	Introducing alpha shapes for the analysis of path integral Monte Carlo results	10.1109/VISUAL.1994.346337	We present a new technique for the visualization and analysis of the results from Monte Carlo simulations based on /spl alpha/-complexes and /spl alpha/-shapes. The specific application presented is the analysis of the quantum-mechanical behavior of hydrogen molecules and helium atoms on a surface at very low temperatu...	false	false	[ "Patrick J. Moran", "Marcus Wagner" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,994	Isosurface generation by using extrema graphs	10.1109/VISUAL.1994.346334	A high-performance algorithm for generating isosurfaces is presented. In this algorithm, extrema points in a scalar field are first extracted. A graph is then generated in which the extrema points are taken as nodes. Each arc of the graph has a list of IDs of the cells that are intersected by the arc. A boundary cell l...	false	false	[ "Takayuki Itoh", "Koji Koyamada" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,994	Mix&Match: a construction kit for visualization	10.1109/VISUAL.1994.346305	We present an environment in which users can interactively create different visualization methods. This modular and extensible environment encapsulates most of the existing visualization algorithms. Users can easily construct new visualization methods by combining simple, fine grain building blocks. These components op...	false	false	[ "Alex T. Pang", "Naim Alper" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,994	New techniques in the design of healthcare facilities	10.1109/VISUAL.1994.346293	The recent advent of computer graphics techniques has helped to bridge the gap between architectural concepts and actual buildings. Closing this gap is especially critical in healthcare facilities. We present new techniques to support the design decision process and apply them to the design of a neonatal intensive care...	false	false	[ "Tarek K. Alameldin", "Mardelle Shepley" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,994	Nonpolygonal isosurface rendering for large volume datasets	10.1109/VISUAL.1994.346306	Surface-based rendering techniques, particularly those that extract a polygonal approximation of an isosurface, are widely used in volume visualization. As dataset size increases though, the computational demands of these methods can overwhelm typically available computing resources. Recent work on accelerating such te...	false	false	[ "James W. Durkin", "John F. Hughes" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,994	Observing a volume rendered fetus within a pregnant patient	10.1109/VISUAL.1994.346295	Augmented reality systems with see-through headmounted displays have been used primarily for applications that are possible with today's computational capabilities. We explore possibilities for a particular application-in-place, real-time 3D ultrasound visualization-without concern for such limitations. The question is...	false	false	[ "Andrei State", "David T. Chen", "Chris Tector", "Andrew Brandt", "Hong Chen", "Ryutarou Ohbuchi", "Michael Bajura", "Henry Fuchs" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,994	Parallel performance measures for volume ray casting	10.1109/VISUAL.1994.346319	Describes a technique for achieving fast volume ray-casting on parallel machines, using a load-balancing scheme and an efficient pipelined approach to compositing. We propose a new model for measuring the amount of work one needs to perform in order to render a given volume, and we use this model to obtain a better loa...	false	false	[ "Cláudio T. Silva", "Arie E. Kaufman" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,994	Piecewise-linear surface approximation from noisy scattered samples	10.1109/VISUAL.1994.346336	We consider the problem of approximating a smooth surface f(x, y), based on n scattered samples {(x/sub i/, y/sub i/, z/sub i/)/sub i=1//sup n/} where the sample values {z/sub i/} are contaminated with noise: z/sub i/=f(x/sub i/, y/sub i/)=/spl epsiv//sub i/. We present an algorithm that generates a PLS (piecewise line...	false	false	[ "Michael Margaliot", "Craig Gotsman" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,994	Progressive transmission of scientific data using biorthogonal wavelet transform	10.1109/VISUAL.1994.346332	An important issue in scientific visualization systems is the management of data sets. Most data sets in scientific visualization, whether created by measurement or simulation, are usually voluminous. The goal of data management is to reduce the storage space and the access time of these data sets to speed up the visua...	false	false	[ "Hai Tao", "Robert J. Moorhead II" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,994	Restorer: a visualization technique for handling missing data	10.1109/VISUAL.1994.346317	Pseudocoloring is a frequently used technique in scientific visualization for mapping a color to a data value. When using pseudocolor and animation to visualize data that contain missing regions displayed as black or transparent, the missing regions popping in and out can distract the viewer from the more relevant info...	false	false	[ "Ray Twiddy", "John Cavallo", "Shahram M. Shiri" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,994	Severe rainfall events in Northwestern Peru (visualization of scattered meteorological data)	10.1109/VISUAL.1994.346298	The ordinarily arid climate of coastal Peru is disturbed every few years by a phenomenon called El Nino, characterized by a warming in the Pacific Ocean. Severe rainstorms are one of the consequences of El Nino, which cause great damage. An examination of daily data from 66 rainfall stations in the Chiura-Piura region ...	false	false	[ "Lloyd Treinish" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,994	Spiders: a new user interface for rotation and visualization of n-dimensional point sets	10.1109/VISUAL.1994.346318	We present a new method for creating n-dimensional rotation matrices from manipulating the projections of n-dimensional data coordinate axes onto a viewing plane. A user interface for n-dimensional rotation is implemented. The interface is shown to have no rotational hysteresis.<<ETX>>	false	false	[ "Kirk L. Duffin", "Bill Barrett" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,994	Strata-various: multi-layer visualization of dynamics in software system behavior	10.1109/VISUAL.1994.346322	Current software visualization tools are inadequate for understanding, debugging, and tuning realistically complex applications. These tools often present only static structure, or they present dynamics from only a few of the many layers of a program and its underlying system. This paper introduces "PV", a prototype pr...	false	false	[ "Doug Kimelman", "Bryan S. Rosenburg", "Tova Roth" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,994	Streamball techniques for flow visualization	10.1109/VISUAL.1994.346315	We introduce the concept of streamballs for flow visualization. Streamballs are based upon implicit surface generation techniques adopted from the well-known metaballs. Their property to split or merge automatically in areas of significant divergence or convergence makes them an ideal tool for the visualization of arbi...	false	false	[ "Manfred Brill", "Hans Hagen", "Hans-Christian Rodrian", "Wladimir Djatschin", "Stanislav V. Klimenko" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,994	The design and implementation of the Cortex visualization system	10.1109/VISUAL.1994.346310	Cortex has been designed for interactive analysis and display of simulation data generated by CFD applications based on unstructured-grid solvers. Unlike post-processing visualization environments, Cortex is designed to work in co-processing mode with the CFD application. This significantly reduces data storage and dat...	false	false	[ "Deb Banerjee", "Chris Morley", "Wayne Smith" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,994	The topology of symmetric, second-order tensor fields	10.1109/VISUAL.1994.346326	We study the topology of symmetric, second-order tensor fields. The goal is to represent their complex structure by a simple set of carefully chosen points and lines analogous to vector field topology. We extract topological skeletons of the eigenvector fields, and we track their evolution over time. We study tensor to...	false	false	[ "Thierry Delmarcelle", "Lambertus Hesselink" ]	[ "BP" ]	[]	[]
Vis	1,994	Tokamak plasma turbulence visualization	10.1109/VISUAL.1994.346301	One of the most fundamental issues in magnetic fusion research is the understanding of turbulent transport observed in present-day tokamak experiments. Plasma turbulence is very challenging from a theoretical point of view due to the nonlinearity and high dimensionality of the governing equations. Recent developments i...	false	false	[ "Scott E. Parker", "Ravi Samtaney" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,994	Triangulation and display of rational parametric surfaces	10.1109/VISUAL.1994.346335	We present a comprehensive algorithm to construct a topologically correct triangulation of the real affine part of a rational parametric surface with few restrictions on the defining rational functions. The rational functions are allowed to be undefined on domain curves (pole curves) and at certain special points (base...	false	false	[ "Chandrajit L. Bajaj", "Andrew V. Royappa" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,994	UFAT-a particle tracer for time-dependent flow fields	10.1109/VISUAL.1994.346311	Time-dependent (unsteady) flow fields are commonly generated in computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulations; however, there are very few flow visualization systems that generate particle traces in unsteady flow fields. Most existing systems generate particle traces in time-independent flow fields. A particle tracing...	false	false	[ "David A. Lane" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,994	User modeling for adaptive visualization systems	10.1109/VISUAL.1994.346316	Meaningful scientific visualizations benefit the interpretation of scientific data, concepts and processes. To ensure meaningful visualizations, the visualization system needs to adapt to desires, disabilities and abilities of the user, interpretation aim, resources (hardware, software) available, and the form and cont...	false	false	[ "Gitta Domik", "Bernd Gutkauf" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,994	Validation, verification and evaluation	10.1109/VISUAL.1994.346285	A discussion is given on the validation, verification and evaluation of scientific visualization software. A "bug" usually refers to software doing something different than the programmer intended. Comprehensive testing, especially for software intended for use in innovative environments, is hard. Descriptions and summ...	false	false	[ "Samuel P. Uselton", "Geoff Dorn", "Charbel Farhat", "Michael W. Vannier", "Kim H. Esbensen", "Al Globus" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,994	Virtual reality performance for virtual geometry	10.1109/VISUAL.1994.346324	We describe the theoretical and practical visualization issues solved in the implementation of an interactive real-time four-dimensional geometry interface for the CAVE, an immersive virtual reality environment. While our specific task is to produce a "virtual geometry" experience by approximating physically correct re...	false	false	[ "Robert A. Cross", "Andrew J. Hanson" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,994	Visualization and data analysis in space and atmospheric science	10.1109/VISUAL.1994.346300	In this paper we show how SAVS, a tool for visualization and data analysis in space and atmospheric science, can be used to quickly and easily address problems that would previously have been far more laborious to solve. Based on the popular AVS package, SAVS presents the user with an environment tailored specifically ...	false	false	[ "A. Mankofsky", "E. P. Szuszczewicz", "P. Blanchard", "C. Goodrich", "D. McNabb", "R. Kulkarni", "D. Kamins" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,994	Visualization and geographic information system integration: what are the needs and the requirements, if any?	10.1109/VISUAL.1994.346284	Addresses the needs and requirements of integrating visualization and geographic information system technologies. There are three levels of integration methods: rudimentary, operational and functional. The rudimentary approach uses the minimum amount of data sharing and exchange between these two technologies. The oper...	false	false	[ "Theresa-Marie Rhyne", "William Ivey", "Loey Knapp", "Peter Kochevar", "Tom Mace" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,994	Visualization in medicine: VIRTUAL reality or ACTUAL reality ?	10.1109/VISUAL.1994.346288	Discusses and debates the role played by 3D visualization in medicine as a set of methods and techniques for displaying 3D spatial information related to the anatomy and the physiology of the human body.<<ETX>>	false	false	[ "Christian Roux", "Jean-Louis Coatrieux", "Jean-Louis Dillenseger", "Elliot K. Fishman", "Murray H. Loew", "Hans-Peter Meinzer", "Justin D. Pearlman" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,994	Visualization of 3D ultrasonic data	10.1109/VISUAL.1994.346294	3D ultrasound is one of the most interesting non-invasive, non-radiative tomographic techniques. Rendering 3D models from such data is not straightforward due to the noisy, fuzzy nature of ultrasound imaging containing a lot of artefacts. We first apply speckle, median and gaussian prefiltering to improve the image qua...	false	false	[ "Georgios Sakas", "Lars-Arne Schreyer", "Marcus Grimm" ]	[ "BCS" ]	[]	[]
Vis	1,994	Visualization of an electric power transmission system	10.1109/VISUAL.1994.346292	Visualization techniques are applied to an electric power system transmission network to create a graphical picture of network power flows and voltages. A geographic data map is used. Apparent power flow is encoded as the width of an arrow, with direction from real power flow. Flows are superposed on flow limits. Conto...	false	false	[ "Pramod M. Mahadev", "Richard D. Christie" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,994	Visualization of mesoscale flow features in ocean basins	10.1109/VISUAL.1994.346297	Environmental issues such as global warming are an active area of international research and concern today. This case study describes various visualization paradigms that have been developed and applied in an attempt to elucidate the information provided by environmental models and observations. The ultimate goal is to...	false	false	[ "Andreas Johannsen", "Robert J. Moorhead II" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,994	Visualization of volcanic ash clouds	10.1109/VISUAL.1994.346290	Ash clouds resulting from volcanic eruptions are a serious hazard to aviation safety. In Alaska alone, there are over 40 active volcanoes whose eruptions may affect more than 40,000 flights using the great circle polar routes each year. The clouds are especially problematic because they are invisible to radar and nearl...	false	false	[ "Mitchell Roth", "Rick Guritz" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,994	Visualizing 3D velocity fields near contour surfaces	10.1109/VISUAL.1994.346312	Vector field rendering is difficult in 3D because the vector icons overlap and hide each other. We propose four different techniques for visualizing vector fields only near surfaces. The first uses motion blurred particles in a thickened region around the surface. The second uses a voxel grid to contain integral curves...	false	false	[ "Nelson L. Max", "Roger Crawfis", "Charles Grant" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,994	Visualizing data: is virtual reality the key?	10.1109/VISUAL.1994.346286	A visualization goal is to simplify the analysis of large-quantity, numerical data by rendering the data as an image that can be intuitively manipulated. The question the article addresses is whether or not virtual reality techniques are the cure-all to the dilemma of visualizing increasing amounts of data. It determin...	false	false	[ "Linda M. Stone", "Thomas Erickson", "Benjamin B. Bederson", "Peter Rothman", "Raymond Muzzy" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,994	Visualizing flow over curvilinear grid surfaces using line integral convolution	10.1109/VISUAL.1994.346313	Line integral convolution (LIC), introduced by B. Cabral and C. Leedom (1993), is a powerful technique for imaging and animating vector fields. We extend the LIC paradigm in three ways: the existing technique is limited to vector fields over a regular Cartesian grid and we extend it to vector fields over parametric sur...	false	false	[ "Lisa K. Forssell" ]	[ "BP" ]	[]	[]
Vis	1,994	Visualizing flow with quaternion frames	10.1109/VISUAL.1994.346330	Flow fields, geodesics, and deformed volumes are natural sources of families of space curves that can be characterized by intrinsic geometric properties such as curvature, torsion, and Frenet frames. By expressing a curve's moving Frenet coordinate frame as an equivalent unit quaternion, we reduce the number of compone...	false	false	[ "Andrew J. Hanson", "Hui Ma" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,994	Visualizing multidimensional (multivariate) data and relations	10.1109/VISUAL.1994.346287	The paper provides a review of the field of multidimensional data visualisation and discusses some promising methodologies. It considers some crucial problems and directions. The emphasis is more on concepts and foundations rather than ad hoc methods. Visualization is considered as a collection of transformations from ...	false	false	[ "Alfred Inselberg", "Georges G. Grinstein", "Ted Mihalisin", "Hans Hinterberger" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,994	Visualizing polycrystalline orientation microstructures with spherical color maps	10.1109/VISUAL.1994.346338	Spherical color maps can be an effective tool in the microstructure visualization of polycrystals. Electron backscatter diffraction pattern analysis provides large arrays of the orientation data that can be visualized easily using the technique described in this paper. A combination of this technique with the tradition...	false	false	[ "Boris Yamrom", "John A. Sutliff", "Andrew P. Woodfield" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,994	Volume rendering methods for computational fluid dynamics visualization	10.1109/VISUAL.1994.346314	The paper describes three alternative volume rendering approaches to visualizing computational fluid dynamics (CFD) data. One new approach uses realistic volumetric gas rendering techniques to produce photo-realistic images and animations from scalar CFD data. The second uses ray casting that is based an a sampler illu...	false	false	[ "David S. Ebert", "Roni Yagel", "James N. Scott", "Yair Kurzion" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,994	Volume rendering of pool fire data	10.1109/VISUAL.1994.346291	We describe how techniques from computer graphics are used to visualize pool fire data and compute radiative effects from pool fires. The basic tools are ray casting and accurate line integration using the RADCAL program. Example images in the visible and infrared band are shown which are given of irradiation calculati...	false	false	[ "Holly E. Rushmeier", "Anthony Hamins", "Mun-Young Choi" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,994	VolVis: a diversified volume visualization system	10.1109/VISUAL.1994.346340	VolVis is a diversified, easy to use, extensible, high performance, and portable volume visualization system for scientists and engineers as well as for visualization developers and researchers. VolVis accepts as input 3D scalar volumetric data as well as 3D volume-sampled and classical geometric models. Interaction wi...	false	false	[ "Ricardo S. Avila", "Taosong He", "Lichan Hong", "Arie E. Kaufman", "Hanspeter Pfister", "Cláudio T. Silva", "Lisa M. Sobierajski", "Sidney W. Wang" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,994	Vortex tubes in turbulent flows: identification, representation, reconstruction	10.1109/VISUAL.1994.346327	A new algorithm for identifying vortices in complex flows is presented. The scheme uses both the vorticity and pressure fields. A skeleton line along the center of a vortex is produced by a two-step predictor-corrector scheme. The technique uses the vector field to move in the direction of the skeleton line and the sca...	false	false	[ "David C. Banks", "Bart A. Singer" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,994	Wavelet-based volume morphing	10.1109/VISUAL.1994.346333	This paper presents a technique for performing volume morphing between two volumetric datasets in the wavelet domain. The idea is to decompose the volumetric datasets into a set of frequency bands, apply smooth interpolation to each band, and reconstruct to form the morphed model. In addition, a technique for establish...	false	false	[ "Taosong He", "Sidney W. Wang", "Arie E. Kaufman" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,994	XmdvTool: integrating multiple methods for visualizing multivariate data	10.1109/VISUAL.1994.346302	Much of the attention in visualization research has focussed on data rooted in physical phenomena, which is generally limited to three or four dimensions. However, many sources of data do not share this dimensional restriction. A critical problem in the analysis of such data is providing researchers with tools to gain ...	false	false	[ "Matthew O. Ward" ]	[]	[]	[]
CHI	1,994	Passive real-world interface props for neurosurgical visualization	10.1145/191666.191821	We claim that physical manipulation of familiar real-world objects in the user’s real environment is an important technique for the design of three-dimensional user interfaces. These real-world passive inte~ace props are manipulated by the user to specify spatial relationships between interface objects. By unobtrusivel...	false	false	[ "Ken Hinckley", "Randy Pausch", "John C. Goble", "Neal F. Kassell" ]	[]	[]	[]
CHI	1,994	The cost-of-knowledge characteristic function: display evaluation for direct-walk dynamic information visualizations	10.1145/191666.191753	In this paper we present a method, the Cost-of-Knowledge Characteristic Function, for characterizing information access from dynamic displays. The paper works out this method for a simple, but important, class of dynamic displays called direct-walk interactive information visualizations, in which information is accesse...	false	false	[ "Stuart K. Card", "Peter Pirolli", "Jock D. Mackinlay" ]	[]	[]	[]
CHI	1,994	The movable filter as a user interface tool	10.1145/191666.191774	Magic Lens filters are a new user interface tool that combine an arbitrarily-shaped region with an operator that changes the view of objects viewed through that region. These tools can be interactively positioned over on-screen applications much as a magnifying glass is moved over a newspaper. They can be used to help...	false	false	[ "Maureen C. Stone", "Kenneth P. Fishkin", "Eric A. Bier" ]	[]	[]	[]
CHI	1,994	The table lens: merging graphical and symbolic representations in an interactive focus + context visualization for tabular information	10.1145/191666.191776	We present a new visualization, called the Table Lens, for visualizing and making sense of large tables. The visualization uses a focus+context (fisheye) technique that works effectively on tabular information because it allows display of crucial label information and multiple distal focal areas. In addition, a graphic...	false	false	[ "Ramana Rao", "Stuart K. Card" ]	[]	[]	[]
CHI	1,994	Using aggregation and dynamic queries for exploring large data sets	10.1145/191666.191682	When working with large data sets, users perform three primary types of activities: data manipulation, data analysis, and data visualization. The data manipulation process involves the selection and transformation of data prior to viewing. This paper addresses user goals for this process and the interactive interface m...	false	false	[ "Jade Goldstein", "Steven F. Roth" ]	[]	[]	[]

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