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CHI	1,993	IMPACT (abstract): interactive motion picture authoring system for creative talent	10.1145/169059.169518	INTRODUCTION We are developing a multimedia authoring system, called IMPACT [1]. It is not easy for non-professionaf users to get good quality motion pictures and to edit them, for instance, in order to create multimedia presentations that express their concepts. To make this kind of tasks feasible for everyone, image-...	false	false	[ "Hirotada Ueda", "Takafumi Miyatake", "Satoshi Yoshizawa" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,992	A 3-D streamline tracking algorithm using dual stream functions	10.1109/VISUAL.1992.235225	A methodology has been developed for constructing streamlines and particle paths in numerically generated fluid velocity fields. A graphical technique is used to convert the discretely defined flow within a cell into one represented by two three-dimensional stream functions. Streamlines are calculated by tracking const...	false	false	[ "David N. Kenwright", "Gordon D. Mallison" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,992	A characterization of the scientific data analysis process	10.1109/VISUAL.1992.235203	It is shown how data visualization fits into the broader process of scientific data analysis. Scientists from several disciplines were observed while they analyzed their own data. Examination of the observations exposed process elements outside conventional image viewing. For example, analysts queried for quantitative ...	false	false	[ "R. R. Springmeyer", "Meera Blattner", "Nelson L. Max" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,992	A scientific visualization renderer	10.1109/VISUAL.1992.235204	While scientific visualization systems share many requirements with other graphical applications, they also have special requirements that make solutions based on standard rendering hardware or software not entirely satisfactory. Those requirements are illustrated by describing the renderer used in a production scienti...	false	false	[ "Bruce Lucas" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,992	A voxel-based, forward projection algorithm for rendering surface and volumetric data	10.1109/VISUAL.1992.235190	A voxel-based, forward projection algorithm with a pipeline architecture for real-time applications is presented. The multisensor capabilities (electrooptical, or visual, and infrared) currently implemented in software have also been applied to non-real-time imaging applications on workstations and minicomputers. Most ...	false	false	[ "John R. Wright", "Julia C. Hsieh" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,992	An architecture for a scientific visualization system	10.1109/VISUAL.1992.235219	The architecture of the Data Explorer, a scientific visualization system, is described. Data Explorer supports the visualization of a wide variety of data by means of a flexible set of visualization modules. A single powerful data model common to all modules allows a wide range of data types to be imported and passed b...	false	false	[ "Bruce Lucas", "G. D. Abrams", "Nancy S. Collins", "D. A. Epstien", "Donna L. Gresh", "Kevin P. McAuliffe" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,992	An efficient range search algorithm for visualizing extrema of volume data	10.1109/VISUAL.1992.235216	A fast range search algorithm for visualizing extrema of d-dimensional volume data in real time as the user interactively moves the query range is presented. The algorithm is based on an efficient data structure, called index heap, which needs only O(N/log N) space and O(d2/sup d/N) preprocessing time to be set up, whe...	false	false	[ "Xiaolin Wu", "Yonggang Fang" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,992	Anatomical atlases based on volume visualization	10.1109/VISUAL.1992.235218	A framework for the generation of atlases of the human body based on the linkage of volume data to a knowledge base is presented. The model has a two layer structure. The lower level is a volume model with a set of semantic attributes belonging to each voxel. Its spatial representation is derived from data sets of magn...	false	false	[ "Karl Heinz Höhne", "Andreas Pommert", "Martin Riemer", "Thomas Schiemann", "Rainer Schubert", "Ulf Tiede", "Werner Lierse" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,992	Approximation and rendering of volume data using wavelet transforms	10.1109/VISUAL.1992.235230	A method is presented to obtain a unique shape description of an object by using wavelet transforms. Wavelet transform is a signal analysis technique which decomposes a signal using a family of functions having a local property in both time and frequency domains. A multiresolution expression of 3D volume data was first...	false	false	[ "Shigeru Muraki" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,992	Automated design of virtual worlds for visualizing multivariate relations	10.1109/VISUAL.1992.235197	Interactive visualization systems provide a powerful means to explore complex data, especially when coupled with 3-D interaction and display devices to produce virtual worlds. While designing a quality static 2-D visualization is already a difficult task for most users, designing an interactive 3-D one is even more cha...	false	false	[ "Clifford Beshers", "Steven K. Feiner" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,992	Case study: visualizing classical problems in CFD	10.1109/VISUAL.1992.235174	A brief example of the visualization and quantification of a complex fluid interaction is presented in order to give one a feeling for the difficulty of dealing with geometrical and topological questions in three dimensions and time. To obtain a quantitative understanding, visiometric techniques, including thresholding...	false	false	[ "Norman J. Zabusky", "Deborah Silver" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,992	Color, change, and control of quantitative data display	10.1109/VISUAL.1992.235201	Calico, a dynamic tool for the creation and manipulation of color mappings for the exploration of multivariate, quantitative data, was used to study the effects of user control and smooth change on user preference, accuracy, and confidence. The results of the study, as well as other user experiences with Calico, suppor...	false	false	[ "Penny Rheingans" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,992	Constructing stream surfaces in steady 3D vector fields	10.1109/VISUAL.1992.235211	Maintenance of a front of particles, an efficient method of generating a set of sample points over a two-dimensional stream surface, is described. The particles are repeatedly advanced a short distance through the flow field. New polygons are appended to the downstream edge of the surface. The spacing of the particles ...	false	false	[ "Jeff P. Hultquist" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,992	Direct volumetric visualization	10.1109/VISUAL.1992.235220	The need for direct volume visualization display devices is discussed, as well as some specifics of the Texas Instruments OmniView technology. The topics discussed include the concept of operations, the rotating surface, the display volume, the transport theory model, the image quality in the display, and applications....	false	false	[ "R. D. Williams", "Fred L. Wefer", "Tip E. Clifton III" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,992	Display of scientific data structures for algorithm visualization	10.1109/VISUAL.1992.235215	A technique for defining graphical depictions for all the data types defined in an algorithm is presented. The ability to display arbitrary combinations of an algorithm's data objects in a common frame of reference, coupled with interactive control of algorithm execution, provides a powerful way to understand algorithm...	false	false	[ "Bill Hibbard", "Charles R. Dyer", "Brian E. Paul" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,992	Flow visualization as a basic tool to investigate the dynamics and topology of jets	10.1109/VISUAL.1992.235212	Issues and difficulties involved in the practical implementation of flow visualization techniques based on a database generated in numerical simulations of unsteady square jets are addressed. Instantaneous visualizations provide basic information on the topological features of the flow, while animation of these visuali...	false	false	[ "Fernando Grinstein", "Upul Obeysekare", "Gopal Patnaik" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,992	Four-dimensional views of 3D scalar fields	10.1109/VISUAL.1992.235222	Scalar functions of three variables, w=f(x, y, z), are common in many types of scientific and medical applications. Such 3D scalar fields can be understood as elevation maps in four dimensions, with three independent variables (x, y, z) and a fourth, dependent, variable w that corresponds to the elevations. It is shown...	false	false	[ "Andrew J. Hanson", "Pheng-Ann Heng" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,992	Generalized focal surfaces: a new method for surface interrogation	10.1109/VISUAL.1992.235224	The generation of smooth surfaces from a mesh of three-dimensional data points is an important problem in geometric modeling. Apart from the pure construction of these curves and surfaces, the analysis of their quality is equally important in the design and manufacturing process. Generalized focal surfaces are presente...	false	false	[ "Hans Hagen", "Stefanie Hahmann" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,992	Grand challenge problems in visualization software	10.1109/VISUAL.1992.235186	Discusses issues relating to the complexity of scientific visualization software system implementation. It is argued that the complexity of current implementations of such systems may limit the utility for users because the interfaces typically require significant knowledge of the data being studied and the applicable ...	false	false	[ "Lloyd A. Treinish", "David M. Butler", "Hikmet Senay", "Georges G. Grinstein", "Steve T. Bryson" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,992	Improving the visualization of hierarchies with treemaps: design issues and experimentation	10.1109/VISUAL.1992.235217	Controlled experiments with novice treemap users and real data highlight the strengths of treemaps and provide direction for improvement. Issues discussed include experimental results, layout algorithms, nesting offsets, labeling, animation, and small multiple displays. Treemaps prove to be a potent tool for hierarchy ...	false	false	[ "David Turo", "B. Johnson" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,992	Improving visualization: theoretical and empirical foundations	10.1109/VISUAL.1992.235185	Discusses the ways in which the understanding of visual perception could help improve the scientific visualization process. It is argued that as long as there is a human interface link to computer visualization systems, understanding how humans perceive information visually could help improve the quality and the effect...	false	false	[ "Stephen M. Kosslyn", "Nahum D. Gershon", "Haim Levkowitz", "Justin D. Pearlman" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,992	Interactive splatting of nonrectilinear volumes	10.1109/VISUAL.1992.235228	Various techniques are described for achieving interactive direct volume rendering of nonrectilinear data sets using fast projection (splatting) methods. The use of graphics hardware, rendering approximations, parallelization and reduced resolution meshes are discussed. Results from the use of these techniques are pres...	false	false	[ "Peter L. Williams" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,992	Interactive terrain rendering and volume visualization on the Princeton Engine	10.1109/VISUAL.1992.235189	The implementation of truly interactive volume visualization and terrain rendering algorithms on the Princeton Engine (PE) video supercomputer is described. The PE is a single-instruction multiple-data (SIMD) computer. Since it was originally developed as a real-time digital television system simulator, it possesses ma...	false	false	[ "James T. Kaba", "James R. Matey", "Gordon Stoll", "Herb Taylor", "Pat Hanrahan" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,992	Interactive visualization of large scalar voxel fields	10.1109/VISUAL.1992.235229	A technique is given allowing interactive visualization of large, scalar, discrete volume fields as semitransparent clouds 'on the fly', i.e. without preprocessing. Interactivity is not restricted to geometric transformations, but includes all possible methods of processing the data. The system flexibly trades-off qual...	false	false	[ "Georgios Sakas", "J. Hartig" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,992	Logical time in visualizations produced by parallel programs	10.1109/VISUAL.1992.235209	Techniques that manipulate logical time in order to produce coherent animations of parallel program behavior despite the presence of asynchrony are presented. The techniques interpret program behavior in light of user-defined abstractions and generate animations based on a logical, rather than a physical, view of time....	false	false	[ "Janice E. Cuny", "Alfred Hough", "Joydip Kunda" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,992	Massively parallel isosurface extraction	10.1109/VISUAL.1992.235223	Experiences during the investigation of parallel methods for faster isosurface generation on SIMD (single instruction stream, multiple data stream) machines are described. A sequential version of a well-known isosurfacing algorithm is algorithmically enhanced for a particular type of SIMD architecture. The SIMD impleme...	false	false	[ "Charles D. Hansen", "Paul A. Hinker" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,992	Network video device control	10.1109/VISUAL.1992.235195	Work in progress at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) involving the implementation of network clients and servers to provide networkwide access to video devices is described. Applications anywhere on the net can manage record and playback operations, change video signal routing, or adjust scan converter paramet...	false	false	[ "David R. Nadeau", "Michael J. Bailey" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,992	Object-oriented, dataflow visualization system-a paradigm shift?	10.1109/VISUAL.1992.235182	Discusses the breadth and the effectiveness of application visualization systems (AVSs). The current and future research areas involving AVSs, drawbacks and limitations of certain application areas, possible improvements to AVSs, and alternative analysis and visualization approaches are discussed.<<ETX>>	false	false	[ "William Ribarsky", "Bob Brown", "Terry Myerson", "Richard Feldmann", "Stuart Smith", "Lloyd Treinish" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,992	Optimizing triangulations by curvature equalization	10.1109/VISUAL.1992.235191	An algorithm that attempts to improve a triangulation by shifting the vertices so that curvature within the triangles is nearly equal is presented. Unnecessary triangles are removed. The method is an effective way of guaranteeing that the triangle vertices are points of higher curvature, and that the triangle edges cor...	false	false	[ "Lori L. Scarlatos", "Theodosios Pavlidis" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,992	Real virtual environment applications-now	10.1109/VISUAL.1992.235184	Discusses efforts to develop virtual environment (VE) systems. The applications discussed are medical telesurgery, maintenance access, presence simulators, accounting visualizations, topographic visualizations and tools to assist developers in determining the value added of potential VE-based solutions.<<ETX>&...	false	false	[ "Paul T. Breen", "Georges G. Grinstein", "David W. Mizell", "Richard M. Satava", "Bradford Smith", "Michael M. Stephens", "David Zeltzer" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,992	Rendering surface-particles	10.1109/VISUAL.1992.235226	Surface-particles are very small facets, modeled as points with a normal. They can be used to visualize flow in several ways by variation of the properties of the particle sources. A method is presented for the rendering of surface-particles. This method includes an improved shading model, the use of Gaussian filters f...	false	false	[ "Jarke J. van Wijk" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,992	Representing medical images with partitioning trees	10.1109/VISUAL.1992.235214	The binary space partitioning tree is a method of converting a discrete space representation to a particular continuous space representation. The conversion is accomplished using standard discrete space operators developed for edge detection, followed by a Hough transform to generate candidate hyperplanes that are used...	false	false	[ "Kalpathi R. Subramanian", "Bruce F. Naylor" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,992	SuperGlue: a programming environment for scientific visualization	10.1109/VISUAL.1992.235202	It is suggested that many existing platforms over emphasize ease-of-use and do not adequately address issues of extensibility. A visualization testbed, called SuperGlue, which is particularly suited for the rapid development of new visualization methods, was built. An interpreter supports rapid development of new code,...	false	false	[ "Jeff P. Hultquist", "E. L. Raible" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,992	Surface curvature analysis using color	10.1109/VISUAL.1992.235200	In the automotive industry, it is highly important that the exterior body panels be esthetically pleasing. One aspect of creating esthetically pleasing surfaces is to require that they be fair. A system that has proven useful for diagnosis of surface fairness problems is presented. How to choose a set of colors with pe...	false	false	[ "L. R. Seidenberg", "Robert B. Jerard", "J. Megewick" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,992	Techniques for managing very large scientific databases	10.1109/VISUAL.1992.235187	Discusses issues relating to the state of the art in scientific data management. Management of scientific data sets or databases is reviewed. The generic science requirements, as well as a case example that drives the underlying data management system architecture are explored, showing current technology limitations. A...	false	false	[ "William J. Campbell", "George Fekete", "Robert F. Cromp", "Ray Wall", "Michael Goldberg" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,992	The microscopist's workstation	10.1109/VISUAL.1992.235177	Issues involved in operating a sophisticated scientific instrument as a computer peripheral accessible over a high-speed network are studied. A custom interactive visualization application was constructed to support investigation using a unique computer-controlled high-voltage electron microscope. The researcher's work...	false	false	[ "Philip J. Mercurio", "T. Todd Elvins", "Stephen J. Young" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,992	The state of the art of visual languages for visualization	10.1109/VISUAL.1992.235207	Data flow visual language systems are being used to provide sophisticated environments for the visualization of scientific data. These systems are evolving rapidly and are beginning to encompass related technologies such as distributed computing and user interface development systems. A hierarchical classification of t...	false	false	[ "Carla S. Williams", "John Rasure", "C. Hansen" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,992	Towards a comprehensive volume visualization system	10.1109/VISUAL.1992.235231	The VolVis system has been developed to satisfy the diverse requirements of the volume visualization community by comfortably housing numerous visualization algorithms and methods within a consistent and well organized framework. The VolVis system is supported by a generalized abstract model which provides for both geo...	false	false	[ "Ricardo S. Avila", "Lisa M. Sobierajski", "Arie E. Kaufman" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,992	Virtual Smoke: an interactive 3D flow visualization technique	10.1109/VISUAL.1992.235227	A technique is given for computer visualization of simultaneous three-dimensional vector and scalar fields such as velocity and temperature in reacting fluid flow fields. The technique, which is called Virtual Smoke, simulates the use of colored smoke for experimental gaseous fluid flow visualization. However, it is no...	false	false	[ "Kwan-Liu Ma", "Philip J. Smith" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,992	Virtual spacetime: an environment for the visualization of curved spacetimes via geodesic flows	10.1109/VISUAL.1992.235196	An implementation of a virtual environment for visualizing the geometry of curved spacetime by the display of interactive geodesics is described. This technique displays the paths of particles under the influence of gravity as described by the general theory of relativity and is useful in the investigation of solutions...	false	false	[ "Steve Bryson" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,992	VISAGE: an object-oriented scientific visualization system	10.1109/VISUAL.1992.235205	VISAGE, a scientific visualization system implemented in an object-oriented, message passing environment, is described. The system includes over 500 classes ranging from visualization and graphics to Xlib and Motif user interface. Objects are created using compiled C and interact through an interpreted scripting langua...	false	false	[ "William J. Schroeder", "William E. Lorensen", "G. D. Montanaro", "Christopher R. Volpe" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,992	Visual query specification in a multimedia database system	10.1109/VISUAL.1992.235208	A visual interface for a multimedia database management system (MDBMS) is described. DBMS query languages are linear in syntax. Although natural language interfaces have been found to be useful, natural language is ambiguous and difficult to process. For queries on standard (relational) data, these difficulties can be ...	false	false	[ "Daniel A. Keim", "Vincent Y. Lum" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,992	Visualization for the document space	10.1109/VISUAL.1992.235198	An information retrieval frame work that promotes graphical displays, and that will make documents in the computer visualizable to the searcher, is described. As examples of such graphical displays, two simulation results of using a Kohonen feature map to generate map displays for information retrieval are presented an...	false	false	[ "X. Lin" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,992	Visualization in anthropology: reconstruction of human fossils from multiple pieces	10.1109/VISUAL.1992.235179	A new way of reconstructing human fossils from fragmentary fossil material is described. Unlike the traditional method of making physical models using clay, this new approach is based on geometrical modeling and visualization of digitized fossil data. It can provide anthropologists with both quantifiable, computer-base...	false	false	[ "Alan D. Kalvin", "David Dean", "Jean-Jaques Hublin", "M. Braun" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,992	Visualization in the neurosciences: utility in research, teaching, and clinical practice	10.1109/VISUAL.1992.235183	Discusses the uses of visualization in the field of neuroscience is reported. The applications discussed are image analysis for basic neurobiological problems, image analysis from basic to applied neurobiological problems, management of images and graphics from anatomical experiments, and visualization and analysis of ...	false	false	[ "Stuart A. Tobet", "Joan C. King", "Steven L. Wertheim", "Frank H. Duffy" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,992	Visualization of cardiac bioelectricity-a case study	10.1109/VISUAL.1992.235178	A project in the field of computational electrocardiography which requires visualization of complex, three-dimensional geometry and electric potential and current fields is described. Starting from magnetic resonance images (MRIs) from a healthy subject, a multisurfaced model of the human thorax was constructed and use...	false	false	[ "Robert S. MacLeod", "Christopher R. Johnson 0001", "Michael A. Matheson" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,992	Visualization of fuzzy data using generalized animation	10.1109/VISUAL.1992.235199	Methods are presented for the visualization of fuzzy data based on the sensitivity of the human visual system to motion and dynamic changes, and the ease of which electronic display devices can change their display. The methods include taking an otherwise static image and displaying in an animation loop either its segm...	false	false	[ "Nahum D. Gershon" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,992	Visualization of high resolution, three-dimensional, nonlinear finite element analyses	10.1109/VISUAL.1992.235192	A two-pass surface extraction algorithm for adaptive finite-element meshes is presented in the context of a visualization study for a particle impact and a turbine-blade containment problem. The direct use of finite-element data structures for the computation of external surfaces, surface normals, and derived physical ...	false	false	[ "Mark A. Christon", "T. Spelce" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,992	Visualization of neutron scattering data using AVS	10.1109/VISUAL.1992.235180	This case study is a result of a six-week feasibility exercise, the aim of which was to explore the extend to which existing visualization software can be used for visualizing ISIS neutron scattering data. ISIS is an experimental facility devoted to the use of pulsed neutrons and muons to investigate the microscopic st...	false	false	[ "R. Popovic" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,992	Visualization of second order tensor fields and matrix data	10.1109/VISUAL.1992.235193	The visualization of 3-D second-order tensor fields and matrix data is studied. The general problem of visualizing unsymmetric real or complex Hermitian second-order tensor fields can be reduced to the simultaneous visualization of a real and symmetric second-order tensor field and a real vector field. The emphasis is ...	false	false	[ "Thierry Delmarcelle", "Lambertus Hesselink" ]	[ "TT", "BP" ]	[]	[]
Vis	1,992	Visualization of simulated airflow in a clean room	10.1109/VISUAL.1992.235213	Techniques for visualizing a simulated air flow in a clean room are developed by using an efficient cell traverse of tetrahedral cells generated from irregular volumes. The proposed techniques, probing and stream line display, are related to the measurement techniques used in actual clean rooms. The efficient traverse ...	false	false	[ "Koji Koyamada" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,992	Visualization requirements in the atmospheric and environmental sciences (five case study reports)	10.1109/VISUAL.1992.235175	Reports from five research centers involved with atmospheric and environmental visualization issues are presented in this case study. Visualization with heterogeneous computer architectures is highlighted in the US EPA Scientific Visualization Center discussion. The NASA Marshall Space Flight Center effort to develop t...	false	false	[ "Theresa-Marie Rhyne", "Mark Bolstad", "Penny Rheingans", "Lynne Petterson", "Walter Shackelford", "Mike E. Botts", "E. Pepke", "K. W. Johnson", "Bill Hibbard", "Charles R. Dyer", "Brian E. Paul", "Lloyd Treinish" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,992	Visualizing a three dimensional hydrodynamic model	10.1109/VISUAL.1992.235173	A three-dimensional finite-element hydrodynamic model was constructed to simulate tidal cycles in Galveston Bay over a one-year period in order to view changes in water velocities and salinity. A project undertaken to visualize the simulation results is reported. The project comprised analyzing model requirements and d...	false	false	[ "C. S. Jones", "J. A. Baca" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,992	Visualizing code profiling line oriented statistics	10.1109/VISUAL.1992.235206	A visualization technique that makes it possible to display and analyze line count profile data is described. The technique is to make a reduced picture of code with the line execution counts identified with color. Hot spots are shown in red, warm spots in orange, and so on. It is possible to identify nonexecuted code ...	false	false	[ "Stephen G. Eick", "Joseph L. Steffen" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,992	Visualizing n-dimensional implications of two-dimensional design decisions	10.1109/VISUAL.1992.235188	Experiments in visualizing implications of landscape planning and design decisions using a combination of GIS, CAD, and video animation technology are described. Simple grid-cell GIS databases and site-scale polygonal models are used to provide visualizations of site planning design proposals and environmental impact, ...	false	false	[ "Stephen M. Ervin" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,992	Visualizing seafloor structures with satellite gravity measurements	10.1109/VISUAL.1992.235176	The relationship between gravity and topography to study subseafloor structures is discussed. Specifically, analysis of the dynamics of seafloor spreading using satellite altimetry is described. The visualization of satellite altimetry data and the limitations of such applications are presented.<<ETX>>	false	false	[ "J. McLeod", "C. Small" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,992	Visualizing the Universe	10.1109/VISUAL.1992.235181	A Universe mapping project at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA), called the CfA Redshift Survey, is described. The line-of-sight recession velocities of galaxies are measured by identifying absorption and emission lines in their spectra. With the two angular positions of a galaxy on the sky and a me...	false	false	[ "M. J. Geller", "E. E. Flaco", "D. G. Fabricant", "B. Estus" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,992	Visualizing wind velocities by advecting cloud textures	10.1109/VISUAL.1992.235210	In order to visualize both clouds and wind in climate simulations, clouds were rendered using a 3D texture which was advected by the wind flow. The simulation is described. Rendering, the advection of texture coordinates, and haze effects are discussed. Results are presented.<<ETX>>	false	false	[ "Nelson L. Max", "Roger Crawfis", "Dean Williams" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,992	Volume rendering on a distributed memory parallel computer	10.1109/VISUAL.1992.235221	A prototype implementation of a splatting volume renderer (SVR) on a commercially available distributed memory MIMD (multiple instruction stream, multiple data stream) parallel processor, the nCUBE2, is described. Some relatively good rendering times can be achieved with the nCUBE SVR. Message-passing bottlenecks occur...	false	false	[ "T. Todd Elvins" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,992	Volume warping	10.1109/VISUAL.1992.235194	Volume warping, a technique for deforming sampled volumetric data using B-splines that is related to image warping and to the free-form deformations of T.W. Sederberg and S.R. Parry (1986) and S. Coquillart (1990), is presented. The process is accelerated to near-real-time speed, and the compromises that are made to ef...	false	false	[ "T. J. True", "J. F. Hughes" ]	[]	[]	[]
CHI	1,992	An Interface for Interactive Spatial Reasoning and Visualization	10.1145/142750.142762	An interface for software that creates a natural environment for engineering graphics students to improve their spatial reasoning and 3D visualization skills is described. The skills of interest involve spatial transformations and rotations, specifically those skills that engineers use to reason about 3D objects based ...	false	false	[ "James R. Osborn", "Alice M. Agogino" ]	[]	[]	[]
CHI	1,992	An Introduction to Zeus: Audiovisualization of Some Elementary Sequential and Parallel Sorting Algorithms	10.1145/142750.143075	Systems for algorithm animation provide facilities for users to view and interact with an animation of an algorithm, and for programmers to develop such animations. For a user, there are ways to control the data given to an algorithm, the ensemble of active views, and the execution of the algorithm. For a programmer, p...	false	false	[ "Marc H. Brown" ]	[]	[]	[]
CHI	1,992	Dynamic Queries for Information Exploration: An Implementation and Evaluation	10.1145/142750.143054	We designed, implemented and evaluated a new concept for direct manipulation of databases, called dynamic queries, that allows users to formulate queries with graphical widgets, such as sliders. By providing a graphical visualization of the database and search results, users can find trends and exceptions easily. Eight...	false	false	[ "Christopher Ahlberg", "Christopher Williamson", "Ben Shneiderman" ]	[]	[]	[]
CHI	1,992	Human-Computer Interaction Research at Georgia Institute of Technology	10.1145/142750.142757	HCI research at Georgia Tech is found in three cooperating groups: the Engineering Psychology and Experimental Psychology Programs in the School of Psychology, the Center for Human-Machine Systems Research in the School of Industrial and Systems Engineering, and the interdisciplinary Graphics, Visualization and Usabili...	false	false	[ "James D. Foley", "Christine M. Mitchell", "Neff Walker" ]	[]	[]	[]
CHI	1,992	Multimedia help: a prototype and an experiment	10.1145/142750.142889	On-line help systems have not paralleled recent advances in user interface technology. In particular, traditional textual help does not support visualization of the interaction processes needed to complete tasks, especially in graphical interfaces. In this demonstration, we present an experimental prototype which is ca...	false	false	[ "Piyawadee Noi Sukaviriya", "Ellen Isaacs", "Krishna Bharat" ]	[]	[]	[]
CHI	1,992	Pointing and Visualization	10.1145/142750.143078	The nature of visualizations and the social uses to which they are put rely heavily on pointing behavior. In the context of a switched telephone network visualization, this tape illustrates novel task-specific pointing facilities.	false	false	[ "William C. Hill", "James D. Hollan" ]	[]	[]	[]
CHI	1,992	The MidasPlus molecular modeling system	10.1145/142750.142915	MidasPlus [6, 7] is an interactive molecular modeling system used to depict three dimensional macromolecular structures such as proteins and nucleic acids, to study how these structures spatially and chemically interact, and to study how small molecules such as drugs bind with these macromolecules, Effective interactio...	false	false	[ "Thomas E. Ferrin", "Conrad C. Huang", "Gregory S. Couch", "Eric F. Pettersen", "Robert Langridge" ]	[]	[]	[]
CHI	1,992	TreeViz: treemap visualization of hierarchically structured information	10.1145/142750.142833	Scientific visualization has received a great deal of attention in recent years. There are many reasons for this but chief among them is the simple observation that humans have difficulty extracting meaningful information from large volumes of data. Our increasing ability to produce, disseminate, and collect informatio...	false	false	[ "Brian Johnson" ]	[]	[]	[]
CHI	1,992	Value bars: an information visualization and navigation tool for multi-attribute listings	10.1145/142750.142817	INTRODUCTION The need for better information visualization and navigation tools is widely recognized [1], [5]. It is difficult to sort and continuously resort tables or listings by more than one attribute and still maintain an understanding of the origin and natural position of items. The concept of “value bars” was cr...	false	false	[ "Richard Chimera" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,991	A data model for scientific visualization with provisions for regular and irregular grids	10.1109/VISUAL.1991.175818	A mathematical data model for scientific visualization that is based on the mathematics of fiber bundles is presented. Previous results are extended to the case of piecewise field representations (associated with grid-based data representations), and a general mathematical model for piecewise representations of fields ...	false	false	[ "Robert B. Haber", "Bruce Lucas", "Nancy S. Collins" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,991	A fast ray tracing casting algorithm using adaptive isotriangular subdivision	10.1109/VISUAL.1991.175806	The use of ray casting in volume rendering and its uses and advantages over surface rendering algorithms are discussed. Various adaptive algorithms that attempt to overcome its problem of high computational cost by taking advantage of image coherency and the bandlimited nature of volume data are described. A method of ...	false	false	[ "Renben Shu", "Alan Liu" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,991	A scientific visualization synthesizer	10.1109/VISUAL.1991.175811	Methods for displaying scientific data using textures and raster operations rather than geometric techniques are described. The flexibility and simplicity of raster operations allow a greater choice of visualization techniques with only a small set of basic operations. In addition, texture mapping techniques that allow...	false	false	[ "Roger Crawfis", "M. J. Allison" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,991	A tool for visualizing the topology of three-dimensional vector fields	10.1109/VISUAL.1991.175773	A description is given of a software system, TOPO, that numerically analyzes and graphically displays topological aspects of a three-dimensional vector field, v, to produce a single, relatively simple picture that characterizes v. The topology of v considered consists of its critical points (where v=0), their invariant...	false	false	[ "Al Globus", "Creon Levit", "T. Lasinski" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,991	Achieving direct volume visualization with interactive semantic region selection	10.1109/VISUAL.1991.175778	The authors have achieved rates as high as 15 frames per second for interactive direct visualization of 3D data by trading some function for speed, while volume rendering with a full complement of ramp classification capabilities is performed at 1.4 frames per second. These speeds have made the combination of region se...	false	false	[ "Terry S. Yoo", "Ulrich Neumann", "Henry Fuchs", "Stephen M. Pizer", "Tim J. Cullip", "John Rhoades", "Ross T. Whitaker" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,991	Acoustic imaging: the reconstruction of underwater objects	10.1109/VISUAL.1991.175784	Reconstruction of 3D scenes using data from an acoustic imaging sonar is addressed. The acoustic lens is described, and issues concerning underwater 3D scene reconstruction from the lens data are examined. Two methods for visualizing objects in an acoustic snapshot of the ocean are discussed: mathematical morphology an...	false	false	[ "Lawrence J. Rosenblum", "Behzad Kamgar-Parsi", "Edward O. Belcher", "Ola Engelsen" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,991	Advanced visualization on desktop workstations	10.1109/VISUAL.1991.175833	The author explores some of the primary problems that face designers of hardware and software for visualization who are attempting to create tools that will be used and widely accepted. He describes possible solutions to some of these challenges that have been incorporated into Fieldview, a commercial tool for increasi...	false	false	[ "Steve M. Legensky" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,991	Applying 3D visualization techniques to finite element analysis	10.1109/VISUAL.1991.175823	Addresses 3D visualization techniques now being developed that are specific to coarse, irregular grid fields such as finite-element models. These include direct-generation of isovalues from finite elements, display of 3D gradient and tensor quantities, and the display of multiple states of behavior, items common to gen...	false	false	[ "Richard S. Gallagher", "Robert B. Haber", "Gordon Ferguson", "David Parker", "Douglas W. Stillman", "James Winget" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,991	Color icons: merging color and texture perception for integrated visualization of multiple parameters	10.1109/VISUAL.1991.175795	A technique that harnesses color and texture perception to create integrated displays of 2D image-like multiparameter distributions is presented. The power of the technique is demonstrated by an example of a synthesized dataset and compared with several other proposed techniques. The nature of studies that are required...	false	false	[ "Haim Levkowitz" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,991	Color vs. black-and-white in visualization	10.1109/VISUAL.1991.175824	Addresses the issue of the use of color, as compared to monochromatic displays, in visualization. The paper presents the advantages and disadvantages of color displays, and those of monochromic displays, identifies situations where color can improve the representation, those where it will degrade it, and suggest guidel...	false	false	[ "Haim Levkowitz", "Richard A. Holub", "Gary W. Meyer", "Philip K. Robertson" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,991	Computer assisted sphere packing in higher dimensions	10.1109/VISUAL.1991.175785	A computer was used to help study the packing of equal spheres in dimension four and higher. A candidate of the densest packing in 4-space is described. The configuration of 24 spheres touching a central sphere in this packing is shown to be rigid, unlike the analog in 3-space, in which the spheres can slide past each ...	false	false	[ "Nelson L. Max" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,991	Cooperative, computer-aided design of scientific visualizations	10.1109/VISUAL.1991.175819	Partial automation of the task of designing graphical displays that effectively depict the data to be visualized through cooperative computer-aided design (CCAD) is described. This paradigm combines the strengths of manual and automated design by interspersing guiding design operations by the human user with the explor...	false	false	[ "Sandeep Kochhar", "Mark Friedell", "Mark Vincent LaPolla" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,991	Deixis and the future of visualization excellence	10.1109/VISUAL.1991.175820	The authors maintain that of particular importance for visualization excellence is an understanding of effective deictic facilities, especially new techniques made possible by computation. They explain what deixis is and why it is fundamental to visualization and they analyze some of the requirements for effective deix...	false	false	[ "William C. Hill", "James D. Hollan" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,991	Designing a distributed scientific visualization tool	10.1109/VISUAL.1991.175835	The benefits of using a distributed scientific visualization tool in the field of acoustic modeling are demonstrated. A user-friendly interface was developed under SunView. A Remote Procedure Call was used for transparent data transfer between a CRAY X-MP/28 and Sun 4 workstation. PV-WAVE, a high-level graphics package...	false	false	[ "L. van der Sluis" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,991	Distributed visualization using workstations, supercomputers, and high speed networks	10.1109/VISUAL.1991.175834	A collaboration designed to demonstrate the possibilities of access to supercomputers via the high-speed wide-area networks in order to carry out sophisticated, interactive visualization on local workstations is described. The test case was visualization of 3D magnetic resonance imaging data, with a Vray performing sur...	false	false	[ "David W. Robertson", "Van L. Jacobson", "William E. Johnston", "Stewart C. Loken", "Edward H. Theil", "Brian L. Tieney" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,991	Enhanced visualization of multi-dimensional structures. Applications in positron emission tomography and climate data	10.1109/VISUAL.1991.175799	An algorithm based on mathematical morphology, image processing, and volume rendering has been developed to enhance the visual perception of definite and abstract structures embedded in multidimensional data undergoing visualization. This erosion procedure enhances the depth and shape perception of structures present i...	false	false	[ "Nahum D. Gershon" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,991	Experiments with interdisciplinary projects and scientific visualization applications at the undergraduate level	10.1109/VISUAL.1991.175836	The author describes the interaction between computer graphics students from the computer science department at Rochester Institute of technology and faculty from various disciplines, in their attempts to utilize state-of-the-art computer graphics techniques for the visualization of physical systems. The structure of a...	false	false	[ "Nan C. Schaller" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,991	Fast rotation of volume data on parallel architectures	10.1109/VISUAL.1991.175777	An algorithm for rendering of orthographic views of volume data on data-parallel computer architectures is described. In particular, the problem or rotating the volume in regard to the communication overhead associated with finely distributed memory is analyzed. An earlier technique (shear decomposition) is extended to...	false	false	[ "Peter Schröder", "James B. Salem" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,991	Golf green visualization	10.1109/VISUAL.1991.175787	Television coverage of golf fails to bring the viewer an appreciation of the complex topography of a golf green and how that topography affects the putting of golf balls. A computer graphics simulation that enhances the viewer's perception of these features using shaded polygonal models of the actual golf green used in...	false	false	[ "William E. Lorensen", "Boris Yamrom" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,991	Gray scale diagrams as business charts	10.1109/VISUAL.1991.175791	Gray-scale diagrams, which can present large amounts of quantitative information in a compact format, are considered as a candidate for business charts. Hundreds of data points can easily be represented in one diagram, using small gray-scale squares (or tiles), without visually overloading a viewer. An experiment was d...	false	false	[ "W. R. Feeney" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,991	How shall we connect our software tools?	10.1109/VISUAL.1991.175816	Software tools are traditionally connected using human-readable files, an approach that buys flexibility and understandability at some cost in performance relative to binary file formats. The possibility of using shared-memory functions to retain most of the existing style while leapfrogging the speed of reading binary...	false	false	[ "Eric Grosse" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,991	How visualization applications drive tool selection: one product can't do it all	10.1109/VISUAL.1991.175826	This paper looks at the role visualization and visual data analysis play in the technical community. It focuses on the premise that the wide variety of applications of visualization mandate a need for a variety of visualization software packages.<<ETX>>	false	false	[ "D. Prawel", "M. Brown", "C. Harris", "R. Kriz", "M. Vigil" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,991	Image handling in a multi-vendor environment	10.1109/VISUAL.1991.175814	Software developed to deal with differing image file formats, mismatched byte order and word sizes, and confusing hardcopy device interfaces is described. The SDSC Image Tool suite provides a simple, extensible, and portable mechanism for the support of a variety of common image formats so that tool-writers can concent...	false	false	[ "David R. Nadeau", "T. Todd Elvins", "Michael J. Bailey" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,991	In vivo blood flow visualization with magnetic resonance imaging	10.1109/VISUAL.1991.175801	Blood movement investigated by magnetic resonance (MR) velocity mapping is generally presented in the form of velocity components in one or more chosen velocity encoding directions. By viewing these components separately, it is difficult for MR practitioners to conceptualize and comprehend the underlying flow structure...	false	false	[ "Guang-Zhong Yang", "Peter Burger", "Philip J. Kilner", "Raad Mohiaddin" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,991	Integration of visualization and scientific calculation in a software system	10.1109/VISUAL.1991.175812	The problems and advantages of integrating scientific computations and visualization into one common program system are examined. An important point is the direct feedback of information from the visualization into an ongoing simulation. Some strong and weak points of the varying approaches in different software packag...	false	false	[ "Ulrich Lang 0002", "Ruth E. Lang", "Roland Rühle" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,991	Interactive data exploration with a supercomputer	10.1109/VISUAL.1991.175809	An experiment in exploratory data visualization using a massively parallel processor is described. In exploratory data visualization, it is typically not known what is being looked for: instead, the data are explored with a variety of visualization techniques that can illuminate its nature by demonstrating patterns in ...	false	false	[ "Stuart Smith", "Georges G. Grinstein", "R. Daniel Bergeron" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,991	Interactive data visualization using focusing and linking	10.1109/VISUAL.1991.175794	Two basic principles for interactive visualization of high-dimensional data-focusing and linking-are discussed. Focusing techniques may involve selecting subsets, dimension reduction, or some more general manipulation of the layout information on the page or screen. A consequent of focusing is that each view only conve...	false	false	[ "Andreas Buja", "John Alan McDonald", "J. Michalak", "Werner Stuetzle" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,991	Multi-valued volumetric visualization	10.1109/VISUAL.1991.175804	Effective methods for visualizing several sets of volumetric data simultaneously are presented. The methods involve the composition of multiple volumetric rendering techniques. These techniques include contour curves, color-blended contour regions, projection graphs on surfaces, isovalue surface construction, and hyper...	false	false	[ "Thomas A. Foley", "David A. Lane" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,991	Multidimensional real time visualization on personal computers	10.1109/VISUAL.1991.175832	A low-cost, high-performance visualization tool based on the IBM PC is described. Characteristics of scientific and engineering visualization and requirements for real time analysis are discussed. Application programming without coding by use of flowgraphs is also presented.<<ETX>>	false	false	[ "Quentin E. Dolecek" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,991	Multimedia environments for scientists	10.1109/VISUAL.1991.175827	This paper addresses the question of how the work of the scientist will change in the new multimedia environments. Scenarios for the process of simulating and analyzing data in such environments are constructed, and some of the underlying models used in their construction are examined.<<ETX>>	false	false	[ "Meera M. Blattner", "Georges Grinstein", "Ephraim P. Glinert", "William Hill", "Creon Levit", "Stuart Smith" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,991	NetV: an experimental network-based volume visualization system	10.1109/VISUAL.1991.175807	An experimental volume visualization system, NetV, that distributes volume imaging tasks to appropriate network resources is described. NetV gives offsite scientists easy access to high-end volume imaging software and hardware. The system allows a user to submit volume imaging jobs to an imaging spooler on a visualizat...	false	false	[ "T. Todd Elvins", "David R. Nadeau" ]	[]	[]	[]

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