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Vis	1,991	Realistic volume imaging	10.1109/VISUAL.1991.175805	A set of volume visualization tools that are based on the use of recursive ray tracing as the primary vehicle for realistic volume imaging is presented. The tools include shadows, mirrors, specularity, and constructive solid geometry. The underlying representation for the ray tracer is a 3-D raster of voxels that holds...	false	false	[ "Roni Yagel", "Arie E. Kaufman", "Qiang Zhang" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,991	Remote visualization: challenges and opportunities	10.1109/VISUAL.1991.175825	This paper emphasizes the need for and importance of remote visualization. The potential impact of remote visualization on application algorithms, communication protocols, and underlying networks is assessed. Opportunities for research and development to support remote visualization in the context of the National Resea...	false	false	[ "Guru M. Parulkar", "Jack Bowie", "Hans-Werner Braun", "Roch Guerin", "Daniel Stevenson" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,991	Run-time visualization of program data	10.1109/VISUAL.1991.175810	An improvement to visualization systems that provides a graphics window into an application displaying program data at run-time through an easy-to-use graphical interface is discussed. With little or no instrumentation of the application the user will be able to dynamically select data for graphical display as the prog...	false	false	[ "Allan Tuchman", "David Jablonowski", "George Cybenko" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,991	Scientific visualization from inside the metacomputer	10.1109/VISUAL.1991.175767	Summary form only given, as follows. Historically, scientific visualization has been carried out in two primary modes: interactive on desktop computers, and batch on high-performance computers. The next decade will see a merging of these two approaches with the advent of high-speed networking. The networking is hierarc...	false	false	[ "Larry L. Smarr" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,991	Shadowed hedgehogs: a technique for visualizing 2D slices of 3D vector fields	10.1109/VISUAL.1991.175792	The technique of placing directed line segments at grid points, known as hedgehogging, which has been used for visualizing 2D vector fields, is considered. A means of rapidly rendering a slice of a 3D field, suitable for a bilevel display, is provided. Shape and shadowing are used to disambiguate orientation. Liberal u...	false	false	[ "R. Victor Klassen", "Steven J. Harrington" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,991	Span filtering: an optimization scheme for volume visualization of large finite element models	10.1109/VISUAL.1991.175780	Techniques for displaying 3D isovalues of scalar fields such as stress within a solid finite-element model generally involve examining each element for values of interest. An inexpensive, straightforward method is discussed for reducing the number of elements searched for such isovalues. It takes advantage of one trave...	false	false	[ "Richard S. Gallagher" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,991	The asymptotic decider: resolving the ambiguity in marching cubes	10.1109/VISUAL.1991.175782	A method for computing isovalue or contour surfaces of a trivariate function is discussed. The input data are values of the trivariate function, F/sub ijk/, at the cuberille grid points (x/sub i/, y/sub j/, z/sub k/), and the output of a collection of triangles representing the surface consisting of all points where F(...	false	false	[ "Gregory M. Nielson", "Bernd Hamann" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,991	The electronic structure of oxygen in silicon as revealed by volume visualization of Ab initio calculations	10.1109/VISUAL.1991.175786	Volumetric rendering is applied to the interpretation of atomic-scale data generated from quantum molecular dynamics computations. In particular, for silicon computations it is found that volumetric visualization of the computed 3D electronic charge density is a valuable tool for identifying defect states in silicon la...	false	false	[ "Robert H. Wolfe", "Mark Needels", "John D. Joannopoulos" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,991	The hyperbox	10.1109/VISUAL.1991.175790	A hyperbox is a two-dimensional depiction of an N-dimensional box (rectangular parallelepiped). The authors define the visual syntax of hyperboxes, state some properties, and sketch two applications. Hyperboxes can be evocative visual names for tensors or multidimensional arrays in visual programming languages. They ca...	false	false	[ "Bowen Alpern", "Larry Carter" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,991	The stream polygon: A technique for 3D vector field visualization	10.1109/VISUAL.1991.175789	A method is presented for the visualization of 3D vector fields. The stream polygon, which is a regular, n-sided polygon, oriented normal to the local vector, can present local deformations due to rigid body rotation and both normal and shear strain. The effect of translation and scalar functions can be represented by ...	false	false	[ "William J. Schroeder", "Christopher R. Volpe", "William E. Lorensen" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,991	The virtual windtunnel: An environment for the exploration of three-dimensional unsteady flows	10.1109/VISUAL.1991.175771	A recently completed implementation of a virtual environment for exploring numerically generated three-dimensional unsteady flowfields is described. A boom-mounted six-degree-of-freedom head-position-sensitive stereo CRT system is used for viewing. A hand-position-sensitive glove controller is used for injecting variou...	false	false	[ "Steve Bryson", "Creon Levit" ]	[ "BP" ]	[]	[]
Vis	1,991	The visual comparison of three sequences	10.1109/VISUAL.1991.175797	A method of visual comparison is described, that provides the scientist with a unique tool to study the qualitative relationships between three sequences of numbers or symbols. The program displays a 3D shape containing the sequence similarities and differences, which manifest themselves as simple geometric shapes and ...	false	false	[ "Kenneth P. Hinkley", "Matthew O. Ward" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,991	Topographical mapping of brain electrical activity	10.1109/VISUAL.1991.175800	Current topographical mapping methods and problems associated with mapping are reviewed, and one approach for improving the spatial resolution of scalp recorded EEGs is detailed. In particular, techniques for interpolating the potential distribution and estimating the surface Laplacian from multichannel data are presen...	false	false	[ "Samuel K. Law", "Paul L. Nunez", "Andrew F. Westdorp", "Arden V. Nelson", "Kenneth L. Pilgreen" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,991	Tree-maps: a space-filling approach to the visualization of hierarchical information structures	10.1109/VISUAL.1991.175815	A method for visualizing hierarchically structured information is described. The tree-map visualization technique makes 100% use of the available display space, mapping the full hierarchy onto a rectangular region in a space-filling manner. This efficient use of space allows very large hierarchies to be displayed in th...	false	false	[ "Brian Johnson", "Ben Shneiderman" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,991	Two widely-different architectural approaches to computer image generation	10.1109/VISUAL.1991.175776	A description is given of the computer graphics aspects of two architectures designed for imaging and graphics. The two systems use parallel and pipelined architectures for high-performance graphics operations. UWGPSP3 uses only commercially available off-the-shelf chips, and consists of a TM34020 graphics system proce...	false	false	[ "Hyun Wook Park", "Kil-Su Eo", "D. L. Kim", "B. K. Choi", "Yongmin Kim 0001", "Thomas Alexander" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,991	Visualisation tools for semiconductor modelling software	10.1109/VISUAL.1991.175830	This paper looks at the issues involved in using a visualization software package to extend the scope of an existing suite of semiconductor modeling software. The visualization software and its hardware platform represent the state of the art in powerful interactive workstation visualization systems. A range of importa...	false	false	[ "Duncan Stevenson" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,991	Visualization and analysis of multi-variate data: a technique for all fields	10.1109/VISUAL.1991.175796	A technique is presented for plotting large multivariate data sets that involves the mapping of n independent variable dimensions on to a single hierarchical horizontal axis with a single dependent variable being plotted on the vertical axis. The emphasis is on visual statistical analysis of either discrete variables o...	false	false	[ "Ted Mihalisin", "John Timlin", "John Schwegler" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,991	Visualization in computational fluid dynamics: a case study	10.1109/VISUAL.1991.175837	VISUAL 3, a highly interactive environment for the visualization of 3D volumetric scientific data, is described. The volume can be broken up in a structured or unstructured manner, and the problem can be static or unsteady in time. Because the data are volumetric and all the information can be changing, traditional CAD...	false	false	[ "Robert Haimes", "David L. Darmofal" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,991	Visualization of equations in an interactive environment	10.1109/VISUAL.1991.175781	A method of visualizing equations in their explicit form using 3D fields is described. Equations are written algebraically, interpreted by an equation parser, and then expressed as scalar fields. Fields are represented as isosurfaces, making use of an algorithm similar to the method of marching cubes. The implementatio...	false	false	[ "David Watson", "Jakub Wejchert", "David W. Williams", "Bri M. Collins" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,991	Visualizing 4-D medical ultrasound data	10.1109/VISUAL.1991.175802	Different standard rendering methods applied to 4-D medical ultrasound data are discussed. In particular, maximum value projection, sum of values projection, transparent gray level gradient shading, and surface shading have been tested. Due to the fact that ultrasound data suffer from a low signal to noise ratio, image...	false	false	[ "Nils Thune", "Bjørn Olstad" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,991	Visualizing causal effects in 4D space-time vector fields	10.1109/VISUAL.1991.175770	A method is presented for juxtaposing 4D space-time vector fields, of which one contains a source variable and the other the response field. Thresholding, ellipsoid fitting, and vortex line generation are used to reduce the amount of information and help analyze the relationship between two 3D vector variables evolving...	false	false	[ "Deborah Silver", "M. Gao", "Norman J. Zabusky" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,991	Visualizing chemical kinetics in fractal domains	10.1109/VISUAL.1991.175831	Chemical reactions occurring within complex domains, such as fractals, can display behavior which differs radically from the expectation of classical chemical kinetics. Rather than relaxing to a uniform distribution at the steady state, these nonclassical systems display large-scale order on many scales. Such self-orga...	false	false	[ "Neal E. Hurlburt", "Lola W. Anacker", "Raoul Kopelman" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,991	Visualizing environmental data for program decision support	10.1109/VISUAL.1991.175838	The McClellan Air Force Base Installation Restoration Program (IRP), which is responsible for identifying and remedying environmental contamination from past operation and disposal practices, is considered. Since 1979, the IRP has generated over 200 volumes of technical reports regarding the degree and extent of contam...	false	false	[ "J. Burnetti", "R. Manley", "W. Mitchell", "D. Varnadore" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,991	Visualizing the fourth dimension using geometry and light	10.1109/VISUAL.1991.175821	Techniques for visualizing mathematical objects in four-dimensional (4D) space that exploit four-dimensional lighting effects are explored. The geometry of image production, stereography, and shadows in 4D is analyzed. Alternatives for smooth and specular shaded rendering of curves, surfaces, and solids in 4D are exami...	false	false	[ "Andrew J. Hanson", "Pheng-Ann Heng" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,991	Volume rendering of flow-visualization point data	10.1109/VISUAL.1991.175772	A survey of 2D and 3D flow visualization techniques is provided. The approach is based on applying volume rendering to flow-visualization data. Linear interpolation and B-spline approximation are used, and several views are given for both. Suggestions for efficient volume rendering are provided.<<ETX>>	false	false	[ "Paul Gene Swann", "Sudhanshu Kumar Semwal" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,991	Volume visualization comes of age: the state of the art in technology and application	10.1109/VISUAL.1991.175828	This paper examines the role of experimental design, data acquisition equipment, and system integration in the holistic solution picture. Issues include data formats, distributed computing environments, and the need for truly interactive, even real-time systems. A major theme is reaching beyond volume visualization to ...	false	false	[ "Vincent Argiro", "Mary Whitton", "Alan Evans", "Wulf Massell", "Stephen Paddock", "Elliot Fishman" ]	[]	[]	[]
CHI	1,991	Cone Trees: animated 3D visualizations of hierarchical information	10.1145/108844.108883	The task of managing and accessing large information spaces is a problem in large scale cognition. Enwrging technologies for 3D visualization and interactive aninlaiion offer potential solutions to this problenl, especially when the structure of the information can be visualized. We describe one of these Information Vi...	false	false	[ "George G. Robertson", "Jock D. Mackinlay", "Stuart K. Card" ]	[]	[]	[]
CHI	1,991	IMPACT: an interactive natural-motion-picture dedicated multimedia authoring system	10.1145/108844.108939	A new approach to achieving a natural-motion-picture dedicated multi-media authoring system is proposed. The main point of this approach, discussed in this paper, is that the user’s environment or interface is improved to encourage user’s creativity, with image processing and recognition technology. According to the di...	false	false	[ "Hirotada Ueda", "Takafumi Miyatake", "Satoshi Yoshizawa" ]	[]	[]	[]
CHI	1,991	Information visualization using 3D interactive animation	10.1145/108844.109003	INTRODUCTION Information Visualization uses computer graphics and interactive animation to stimulate recognition of patterns and structure in information. It does so by exploiting the human perceptual system in ways similar to Scientific Visualization, which allows scientists to perceive patterns in large data collecti...	false	false	[ "George G. Robertson", "Jock D. Mackinlay", "Stuart K. Card" ]	[]	[]	[]
CHI	1,991	The information visualizer, an information workspace	10.1145/108844.108874	This paper proposes a concept for the user interface of information retrieval systems called an information workspace. The concept goes beyond the usual notion of an information retrieval system to encompass the cost structure of information from secondary storage to immediate use. As an implementation of the concept, ...	false	false	[ "Stuart K. Card", "George G. Robertson", "Jock D. Mackinlay" ]	[]	[]	[]
CHI	1,991	The perspective wall: detail and context smoothly integrated	10.1145/108844.108870	Tasks that involve large information spaces overwhelm workspaces that do not support efiicient use of space and time. For example, case studies indicate that information often contains linear components, which can result in 2D layouts with wide, inefficient aspect ratios. This paper describes a technique called the Per...	false	false	[ "Jock D. Mackinlay", "George G. Robertson", "Stuart K. Card" ]	[]	[]	[]
CHI	1,991	The University of Toronto dynamic graphics project	10.1145/108844.109006	The University of Toronto’s Dynamic Graphics Project is an interdisciplinary research laboratory within the Computer Science Department and the Computer Systems Research Institute. The labs mission is advanced research and graduate instruction; its theme is the enhancement of human creativity through advances in human-...	false	false	[ "Ronald Baecker", "Marilyn M. Mantei", "William Buxton", "Eugene Fiume" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,990	A graphical interface for robotic remediation of underground storage tanks	10.1109/VISUAL.1990.146419	Experimental investigations into the application of intelligent robot control technology to the problem of removing waste stored in tanks is discussed. The authors describe the experimental environment used, with particular attention to the hardware and software control environment and the graphical interface. Intellig...	false	false	[ "Brian K. Christensen", "Lisa M. Desjarlais" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,990	A journey into the fourth dimension	10.1109/VISUAL.1990.146385	It is shown that by a simple (one-way) mapping from quaternions to complex numbers, the problem of generating a four-dimensional Mandelbrot set by iteration of a quadratic function in quaternions can be reduced to iteration of the same function in the complex domain, and thus, the function values in 4-D can be obtained...	false	false	[ "Yan Ke", "E. S. Panduranga" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,990	A methodology for scientific data visualisation: choosing representations based on a natural scene paradigm	10.1109/VISUAL.1990.146372	A methodology for guiding the choice of visual representations of data is presented. The methodology provides objective and directed display design facilities. Such facilities can guide interactive visualization design, generate standard visualizations automatically, and assess the extent to which chosen representation...	false	false	[ "Philip K. Robertson" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,990	A numerical method for rendering spherical reflections	10.1109/VISUAL.1990.146393	Methods of rendering reflections in curved surfaces are examined. A numerical algorithm to derive spherical reflections is presented. This algorithm has many attractive qualities, such as low computation costs, object space coherence, device and resolution independence, and generation of maximum information about refle...	false	false	[ "David P. Dobkin", "E. S. Panduranga", "M. Zhu" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,990	A problem-oriented classification of visualization techniques	10.1109/VISUAL.1990.146375	Progress in scientific visualization could be accelerated if workers could more readily find visualization techniques relevant to a given problem. The authors describe an approach to this problem, based on a classification of visualization techniques, that is independent of particular application domains. A user breaks...	false	false	[ "Stephen Wehrend", "Clayton H. Lewis" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,990	A procedural interface for volume rendering	10.1109/VISUAL.1990.146362	The author presents a simple, procedural interface for volume rendering. The interface is built on three types of objects: volumes, which contain the data to be visualized, environments, which set up viewing and lighting, and image objects, which convert results to a user-definable format. A volume is rendered against ...	false	false	[ "James L. Montine" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,990	A system for three-dimensional acoustic 'visualization' in a virtual environment workstation	10.1109/VISUAL.1990.146398	The authors describe the real-time acoustic display capabilities developed for the virtual environment workstation (VIEW) project. The acoustic display is capable of generating localized acoustic cues in real time over headphones. An auditor symbology, a related collection of representational auditory objects or icons,...	false	false	[ "Elizabeth M. Wenzel", "Scott S. Fisher", "Philip K. Stone", "Scott H. Foster" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,990	A three-dimensional/stereoscopic display and model control system for Great Lakes forecasts	10.1109/VISUAL.1990.146382	A forecasting system for the Great Lakes in which the data generated by a three-dimensional numerical model is visualized by a 3-D/stereoscopic display module is discussed. The module consists of a control panel and a display window with the capability of interactively rendering the results. The event scheduling for sc...	false	false	[ "Chieh-Cheng Yen", "Keith W. Bedford", "Jill Kempf", "Robert E. Marshall" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,990	Accurate display of tensor product isosurfaces	10.1109/VISUAL.1990.146401	A general method for rendering isosurfaces of multivariate rational and polynomial tensor products is described. The method is robust up to degree 15, handling singularities without introducing spurious rendering artifacts. The approach does not solve the problem of singularities in general, but it removes the problem ...	false	false	[ "Alyn P. Rockwood" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,990	An interpersonal multimedia visualization system	10.1109/VISUAL.1990.146399	MediaView is a computer program that provides a generic infrastructure for authoring and interacting with multimedia documents. Among its applications is the ability to furnish a user with a comprehensive environment for analysis and visualization. With this program the user can produce a document that contains mathema...	false	false	[ "Richard L. Phillips" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,990	Animation techniques for chain-coded objects	10.1109/VISUAL.1990.146366	The animation of two-dimensional objects in a 2-D planar environment is discussed. The use of chain codes as a boundary representation for 2-D objects undergoing animation is shown to be practical for several typical transformations. Various methods for implementing the transformations are described. Quantized methods ...	false	false	[ "Anthony J. Maeder" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,990	Applying space subdivision techniques to volume rendering	10.1109/VISUAL.1990.146377	The authors present a ray-tracing algorithm for volume rendering designed to work efficiently when the data of interest is distributed sparsely through the volume. A simple preprocessing step identifies the voxels representing features of interest. Frequently this set of voxels, arbitrarily distributed in three-dimensi...	false	false	[ "Kalpathi R. Subramanian", "Donald S. Fussell" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,990	Automatic illustration of 3D geometric models: surfaces	10.1109/VISUAL.1990.146395	The authors present techniques for automating the illustration of geometric models based on traditional hand illustration methods. A system based on the techniques of traditional illustrators for automatically generating illustrations of complex three-dimensional models is described. The system relies on a richer set o...	false	false	[ "Debra Dooley", "Michael F. Cohen" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,990	Case study in scientific visualization: factors inducing periodic breathing in humans with blunted hypoxic sensitivity	10.1109/VISUAL.1990.146415	The problem of presenting and gaining deeper understanding of a multidimensional system, a mathematical model Predicting 20-90 s oscillations in breathing, is presented. The authors utilized custom software for interactive analysis of a three-dimensional model, plus Wavefront software to render translucent images of th...	false	false	[ "Wayne E. Fordyce", "Jeffrey Ventrella" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,990	Classifying visual knowledge representations: a foundation for visualization research	10.1109/VISUAL.1990.146374	An exploratory effort to classify visual representations into homogeneous clusters is discussed. The authors collected hierarchical sorting data from twelve subjects. Five principal groups of visual representations emerged from a cluster analysis of sorting data: graphs and tables, maps, diagrams, networks, and icons. ...	false	false	[ "Gerald L. Lohse", "Henry H. Rueter", "Kevin Biolsi", "Neff Walker" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,990	Design of an end-user data visualization system	10.1109/VISUAL.1990.146397	The authors describe the architecture of an end-user visualization system that supports interactive analysis of three-dimensional scalar and vector data in a heterogeneous hardware environment. The system supports a variety of visualization methods with applicability in disciplines such as computational fluid dynamics,...	false	false	[ "Donald L. Brittain", "Josh Aller", "Michael Wilson", "Sue-Ling C. Wang" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,990	Displaying voxel-based objects according to their qualitative shape synthesis	10.1109/VISUAL.1990.146364	The use of qualitative shape synthesis for the display of 3-D binary objects is presented. The proposed approach is applicable to multi-object scenes and to outdoor scenery as well. It makes use of a new method, the diffusion process, that simulates diffusion of particles within the interior of a 3-D discrete object. S...	false	false	[ "Yaser Yacoob" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,990	Dynamic graphics for network visualization	10.1109/VISUAL.1990.146369	The authors describe several dynamic graphics tools for visualizing network data involving statistics associated with the nodes or links in a network. The authors suggest a number of ideas for the static display of network data, while motivating the need for interaction through dynamic graphics. A brief discussion of d...	false	false	[ "Richard A. Becker", "Stephen G. Eick", "Eileen O. Miller", "Allan R. Wilks" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,990	Exploring N-dimensional databases	10.1109/VISUAL.1990.146386	The authors present a tool for the display and analysis of N-dimensional data based on a technique called dimensional stacking. This technique is described. The primary goal is to create a tool that enables the user to project data of arbitrary dimensions onto a two-dimensional image. Of equal importance is the ability...	false	false	[ "Jeffrey LeBlanc", "Matthew O. Ward", "Norman Wittels" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,990	Extracting geometric models through constraint minimization	10.1109/VISUAL.1990.146367	The authors propose a methodology that will extract a topologically closed geometric model from a two-dimensional image. This is accomplished by starting with a simple model that is already topologically closed and deforming the model, based on a set of constraints, so that the model grows (shrinks) to fit the feature ...	false	false	[ "James V. Miller", "David E. Breen", "Michael J. Wozny" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,990	FAST: a multi-processed environment for visualization of computational fluid dynamics	10.1109/VISUAL.1990.146360	The authors discuss FAST (flow analysis software toolkit), an implementation of a software system for fluid mechanics analysis. Visualization of computational aerodynamics requires flexible, extensible, and adaptable software tools for performing analysis tasks. An overview of FAST is given, and its architecture is dis...	false	false	[ "Gordon V. Bancroft", "Fergus Merritt", "Todd Plessel", "Paul G. Kelaita", "R. Kevin McCabe", "Al Globus" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,990	Hierarchical triangulation using terrain features	10.1109/VISUAL.1990.146379	A hierarchical triangulation built from a digital elevation model in grid form is described. The authors present an algorithm that produces a hierarchy of triangulations in which each level of the hierarchy corresponds to a guaranteed level of accuracy. The number of very thin triangles (slivers) is significantly reduc...	false	false	[ "Lori L. Scarlatos", "Theodosios Pavlidis" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,990	Interactive investigation of fluid mechanics data sets	10.1109/VISUAL.1990.146416	FIELDVIEW, a visual analysis tool designed to facilitate the interactive investigation of fluid mechanics data sets by providing an easy-to-use interface to the flow field data, is presented. Operating on NASA Plot three-dimensional format data, FIELDVIEW computes scalar and vector flow quantities and displays them usi...	false	false	[ "Steve M. Legensky" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,990	Interactive visualization of quaternion Julia sets	10.1109/VISUAL.1990.146384	The first half of a two-step quaternion Julia set visualization system is described. This step uses a quarternion square root function to adapt the classic inverse iteration algorithm to the quaternions. The augmented version produces a 3-D Julia set defined by a point cloud that can be interactively manipulated on a g...	false	false	[ "John C. Hart", "Louis H. Kauffman", "Dan Sandin" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,990	Interpreting a 3D object from a rough 2D line drawing	10.1109/VISUAL.1990.146365	Visualizing the third dimension while designing three-dimensional (3-D) objects is an awkward process in mechanical computer-aided-design (CAD) systems, given the current state of the art. The authors describe a computer system that automatically constructs the shape of a 3-D object from a single 2-D sketch. The method...	false	false	[ "Del Lamb", "Amit Bandopadhay" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,990	Methods for surface interrogation	10.1109/VISUAL.1990.146381	The authors discuss various visualization techniques that have the goal of identifying unwanted curvature regions interactively on screen. The authors give a critical survey of surface interrogation methods. Several isoline and contouring techniques are presented, and the reflection line method, which simulates the so-...	false	false	[ "Hans Hagen", "Thomas Schreiber", "Ernst Gschwind" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,990	Moving iconic objects in scientific visualization	10.1109/VISUAL.1990.146373	The idea of independently moving, interacting graphical objects is introduced as a method for the visualization of continuous fields. Bird-oid objects or boids are discussed. These boids derive from: (1) icons which are geometric objects whose shape and appearance are related to the field variables, (2) three-dimension...	false	false	[ "G. David Kerlick" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,990	Parallel coordinates: a tool for visualizing multi-dimensional geometry	10.1109/VISUAL.1990.146402	A methodology for visualizing analytic and synthetic geometry in R/sup N/ is presented. It is based on a system of parallel coordinates which induces a nonprojective mapping between N-dimensional and two-dimensional sets. Hypersurfaces are represented by their planar images which have some geometrical properties analog...	false	false	[ "Alfred Inselberg", "Bernard Dimsdale" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,990	Personal visualization system: applications in research and engineering	10.1109/VISUAL.1990.146418	The authors describe an innovative personal visualization system and its application to several research and engineering problems. The system bridges both hardware and software components to permit a user to graphically describe a visualization problem to the computer; thereby reducing program development time to a few...	false	false	[ "Quentin E. Dolecek", "K. Moorjani", "B. F. Kim", "D. G. Tilley", "Thomas S. Denney Jr." ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,990	Ray traced scalar fields with shaded polygonal output	10.1109/VISUAL.1990.146390	An algorithm for rendering scalar field data that reduces rendering times by as much as two orders of magnitude over traditional full resolution images is presented. Less than full-resolution sampling of the scalar field is performed using a fast ray tracing method. The sampling grid points are output as a set of scree...	false	false	[ "Ray J. Meyers", "Michael B. Stephenson" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,990	Real-world applications of visualization solutions	10.1109/VISUAL.1990.146417	Visual data analysis (VDA) is a visualization approach that combines vector and raster graphics to provide insights into various aspects of multidimensional datasets. VDA methods have found application in aerospace engineering research, VDA is being used to develop nondestructive evaluation testing techniques for graph...	false	false	[ "David A. Prawel" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,990	Rendering and managing spherical data with sphere quadtrees	10.1109/VISUAL.1990.146380	The sphere quadtree (SQT), which is based on the recursive subdivision of spherical triangles obtained by projecting the faces of an icosahedron onto a sphere, is discussed. Most databases for spherically distributed data are not structured in a manner consistent with their geometry. As a result, such databases possess...	false	false	[ "Gyorgy Fekete" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,990	Scattered data interpolation tools in a microcomputer visualization environment	10.1109/VISUAL.1990.146396	A package that can bridge the connection between scattered data sets and the highly structured sets required by graphics algorithms is described. Although export of evaluation data is a necessary capability, it is very important that this package has a fully featured three-dimensional graphics subsystem to interactivel...	false	false	[ "Keith Voegele" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,990	Shape coding of multidimensional data on a microcomputer display	10.1109/VISUAL.1990.146387	The author presents a simple and flexible method of sharp coding for higher dimensional data sets that allows the database operator or the scientist quick access to promising patterns within and among records or samples. The example used is a 13-parameter set of solar wind, magnetosphere, and ground observation data co...	false	false	[ "Jeff Beddow" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,990	Spline-based color sequences for univariate, bivariate and trivariate mapping	10.1109/VISUAL.1990.146383	Alternative models that use B-spline curves and surfaces for generating color sequences for univariate, bivariate, and trivariate mapping are introduced. The main aim is to break away from simple geometric representation in order to provide more flexibility and control over color selection. This facilitates the task of...	false	false	[ "Binh Pham 0001" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,990	Superposing images with shadow casting	10.1109/VISUAL.1990.146394	Algorithms for rendering complex and shaded animation sequences are described. The target display device for these image rendering algorithms is a multichannel display based on the superposing technique realized in hardware. An animation sequence is displayed by superposing a dynamic foreground on a static background. ...	false	false	[ "Philip C. Hsu", "John Staudhammer" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,990	Surface representations of two- and three-dimensional fluid flow topology	10.1109/VISUAL.1990.146359	The use of critical point analysis to generate representations of the vector field topology of numerical flow data sets is discussed. Critical points are located and characterized in a two-dimensional domain, which may be either a two-dimensional flow field or the tangential velocity field near a three-dimensional body...	false	false	[ "James Helman", "Lambertus Hesselink" ]	[ "BP" ]	[]	[]
Vis	1,990	Techniques for the interactive visualization of volumetric data	10.1109/VISUAL.1990.146363	Some ideas and techniques for visualizing volumetric data are introduced. The methods presented are different from both the volume rendering techniques and surface contour methods. Volumetric data is data with a domain of three independent variables. The independent variables do not have to indicate a position in space...	false	false	[ "Gregory M. Nielson", "Bernd Hamann" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,990	Techniques for visualizing 3-dimensional manifolds	10.1109/VISUAL.1990.146400	Computer graphics has long been concerned with representing and displaying surfaces in three-dimensional space. The author addresses the questions of representation and display in a higher dimensional setting, specifically, that of 3-manifolds immersed in four-dimensional space. The author describes techniques for visu...	false	false	[ "Michael J. Laszlo" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,990	Techniques for visualizing Fermat's last theorem: a case study	10.1109/VISUAL.1990.146370	The authors describe some mathematical approaches and computer graphics techniques for illustrating concepts related to Fermat's last theorem. They present a selection of visualization methods, and describe observations made in the process of creating a three-minute computer animated videotape dealing with some element...	false	false	[ "Andrew J. Hanson", "Pheng-Ann Heng", "B. C. Kaplan" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,990	The application of transport theory to visualization of 3D scalar data fields	10.1109/VISUAL.1990.146391	The author describes a visualization model for three-dimensional scalar data fields based on linear transport theory. The concept of virtual particles for the extraction of information from data fields in introduced. The role of different types of interaction of the data field with those particles such as absorption, s...	false	false	[ "Wolfgang Krüger" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,990	The VIS-5D system for easy interactive visualization	10.1109/VISUAL.1990.146361	The VIS-5D system provides highly interactive visual access to five-dimensional data sets containing up to 50 million data points. VIS-5D runs on the Stardent ST-1000 and ST-2000 workstations and generates animated three-dimensional graphics from gridded data sets in real time. It provides a widget-based user interface...	false	false	[ "Bill Hibbard", "David A. Santek" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,990	Visualization and three-dimensional image processing of positron emission tomography (PET) brain images	10.1109/VISUAL.1990.146376	The author applied image processing and volume rendering algorithms together with considerations on the physiology of the human visual system to improve the quality of perception of the information contained in positron emission tomography (PET) brain images, and to highlight the existing anatomical information. The ps...	false	false	[ "Nahum D. Gershon" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,990	Visualization for nonlinear engineering FEM analysis in manufacturing	10.1109/VISUAL.1990.146412	This case study describes how visualization tools were used in a nonlinear finite-element method (FEM) analysis of rivet deformation. After summarizing the problem at hand, it is concluded that three factors that aided the visualization process in this case can be extracted as general principles: first, focus the viewe...	false	false	[ "Gerald W. Edgar" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,990	Visualization for the information age	10.1109/VISUAL.1990.146414	Summary form only given. The basic parameters of current TV, the origins of HDTV, and the various types of TV systems being proposed in Japan, America and Europe are reviewed. Available HDTV hardware, new applications that this hardware enables, and the economics involved are discussed. How HDTV fits into the film and ...	false	false	[ "Laurin Herr" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,990	Visualization of free form volumes	10.1109/VISUAL.1990.146403	An algorithm that creates planar and arbitrarily curved sections of free-form volumes is presented. The definition of free-form volumes generalizes techniques from free-form curves and surfaces to trivariate representation. The definition is given for volumes in the Bernstein-Bezier representation. The author illustrat...	false	false	[ "Dieter Lasser" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,990	Visualization of irregular multivariate data	10.1109/VISUAL.1990.146388	The authors discuss effective techniques for representing scalar and vector valued functions that interpolate to irregularly located data. Special attention is given to the situations where the sampling domain is a two-dimensional plane, 3-D volume, or a closed 3-D surface. The authors first discuss the multiquadric an...	false	false	[ "Thomas A. Foley", "David A. Lane" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,990	Visualization of scalar data defined on a structured grid-applications to petroleum research	10.1109/VISUAL.1990.146392	The authors describe some simple visualization techniques that may be used to explore dynamic three-dimensional scalar fields in an interactive way. Scalar data are assumed to have been already computed, and graphic manipulations are done afterwards on a graphics workstation. Structured grids (finite-difference grids) ...	false	false	[ "J. L. Pajon", "V. Bui Tran" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,990	Visualizing a scalar field on an N-dimensional lattice	10.1109/VISUAL.1990.146389	The authors address the problem of visualizing a scalar dependent variable which is a function of many independent variables. In particular, cases where the number of independent variables is three or greater are discussed. A new hierarchical method of plotting that allows one to interactively view millions of data poi...	false	false	[ "Ted Mihalisin", "E. Grawlinksi", "John Timlin", "John Schwegler" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,990	Visualizing computer memory architectures	10.1109/VISUAL.1990.146371	The authors describe a conceptual model, the memory hierarchy framework, and a visual language for using the model. The model is more faithful to the structure of computers than the Von Neumann and Turing models. It addresses the issues of data movement and exposes and unifies storage mechanisms such as cache, translat...	false	false	[ "Bowen Alpern", "Larry Carter", "Ted Selker" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,990	Volume microscopy of biological specimens based on non-confocal imaging techniques	10.1109/VISUAL.1990.146413	An approach that uses advanced computer graphics workstations and volume rendering algorithms for accurate reconstruction of volumetric microscopy data is described. It has been found that excellent reconstructions can be made from serial sections acquired using a charge-coupled device and a conventional light microsco...	false	false	[ "Stephen L. Senft", "Vincent J. Argio", "William L. van Zandt" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,990	Volume visualization in cell biology	10.1109/VISUAL.1990.146378	The authors discuss the special properties of volumetric cell data (e.g., noise, discontinuity, raggedness) and the particular difficulties encountered when trying to visualize them in three dimensions. The authors describe some of the solutions adopted, specifically in surface discrimination and shading. Nerve cells (...	false	false	[ "Arie E. Kaufman", "Roni Yagel", "Reuven Bakalash", "I. Spector" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,990	Wide-band relativistic Doppler effect visualization	10.1109/VISUAL.1990.146368	The authors present a flexible and efficient method to simulate the Doppler shift. In this new method the spectral curves of surface properties and light composition are represented by spline functions of wavelength. These functions can cover the entire electromagnetic (EM) waves bandwidth, and incorporate the thermal ...	false	false	[ "Ping-Kang Hsiung", "Robert H. Thibadeau", "Christopher B. Cox", "Robert H. P. Dunn", "Michael Wu", "Paul Andrew Olbrich" ]	[]	[]	[]
CHI	1,990	Business instrument panel: a new paradigm for interfacing with financial data	10.1145/97243.97269	The business instrument panel uses visualization to present, in a comprehensive and integrated manner, all the important elements found in traditional financial statements. By means of analog representation in a simple computer generated picture, the business instrument panel replaces the four traditional financial sta...	false	false	[ "C. Torben Thomsen" ]	[]	[]	[]
CHI	1,990	Stereophonic and surface sound generation for exploratory data analysis	10.1145/97243.97264	The analysis and interpretation of very high dimensional data require the development and use of data presentation techniques that harness human perceptual powers. The University of Lowell's Exploratory Visualization project (Exvis) aims at designing, implementing, and evaluating perceptually-based tools for data prese...	false	false	[ "Stuart Smith", "R. Daniel Bergeron", "Georges G. Grinstein" ]	[]	[]	[]
CHI	1,990	Track - a trace construction kit	10.1145/97243.97318	TRACK is a kit to interactively construct environments that trace the execution of methods and the flow of messages between SMALLTALK-80 objects. It enables the user to set up traces by means of direct manipulation. This is done by placing obstacles between icons representing specific classes and instances much in the ...	false	false	[ "Heinz-Dieter Böcker", "Jürgen Herczeg" ]	[]	[]	[]
CHI	1,989	Constraint grammars-a new model for specifying graphical applications	10.1145/67449.67513	User Interface Management Systems often attempt to separate the graphical and nongraphical aspects of an application, but rarely succeed. Constraint grammars provide a new model for specifying interfaces that achieves this goal by encapsulating the data structures in a single package, and providing a powerful transform...	false	false	[ "Bradley T. Vander Zanden" ]	[]	[]	[]
CHI	1,988	Grasping reality through illusion - interactive graphics serving science	10.1145/57167.57168	I treat three related subjects: virtual-worlds research—the construction of real-time 3-D illusions by computer graphics; some observations about interfaces to virtual worlds; and the coming application of virtual-worlds techniques to the enhancement of scientific computing. We need to design generalized interfaces for...	false	false	[ "Frederick P. Brooks Jr." ]	[]	[]	[]
CHI	1,986	Design principles for the enhanced presentation of computer program source text	10.1145/22627.22348	In order to make computer programs more readable, understandable, appealing, memorable, and maintainable, the presentation of program source text needs to be enhanced over its conventional treatment. Towards this end, we present five basic design principles for enhanced program visualization and a framework for applyin...	false	false	[ "Ronald Baecker", "Aaron Marcus" ]	[]	[]	[]
CHI	1,986	Visual programming, programming by example, and program visualization: a taxonomy	10.1145/22627.22349	There has been a great interest recently in systems that use graphics to aid in the programming, debugging, and understanding of computer programs. The terms “Visual Programming” and “Program Visualization” have been applied to these systems. Also, there has been a renewed interest in using examples to help alleviate t...	false	false	[ "Brad A. Myers" ]	[]	[]	[]

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