Volume 27 (2008): Recent submissions

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    • Illustrative Parallel Coordinates 

      McDonnell, Kevin T.; Mueller, Klaus (The Eurographics Association and Blackwell Publishing Ltd., 2008)
      Illustrative parallel coordinates (IPC) is a suite of artistic rendering techniques for augmenting and improving parallel coordinate (PC) visualizations. IPC techniques can be used to convey a large amount of information ...

    • A Screen Space Quality Method for Data Abstraction 

      Johansson, Jimmy; Cooper, Matthew (The Eurographics Association and Blackwell Publishing Ltd., 2008)
      The rendering of large data sets can result in cluttered displays and non-interactive update rates, leading to time consuming analyses. A straightforward solution is to reduce the number of items, thereby producing an ...

    • Discrete Multi-Material Interface Reconstruction for Volume Fraction Data 

      Anderson, John C.; Garth, C.; Duchaineau, Mark A.; Joy, Kenneth I. (The Eurographics Association and Blackwell Publishing Ltd., 2008)
      We present the results from a user study looking at the ability of observers to mentally integrate wind direction and magnitude over a vector field. The data set chosen for the study is an MM5 (PSU/NCAR Mesoscale Model) ...

    • Lagrangian Visualization of Flow-Embedded Surface Structures 

      Garth, Christoph; Wiebel, Alexander; Tricoche, Xavier; Joy, Ken; Scheuermann, Gerik (The Eurographics Association and Blackwell Publishing Ltd., 2008)
      The notions of Finite-Time Lyapunov Exponent (FTLE) and Lagrangian Coherent Structures provide a strong framework for the analysis and visualization of complex technical flows. Their definition is simple and intuitive, and ...

    • Evaluation of Illustration-inspired Techniques for Time-varying Data Visualization 

      Joshi, Alark; Rheingans, Penny (The Eurographics Association and Blackwell Publishing Ltd., 2008)
      Illustration-inspired techniques have provided alternative ways to visualize time-varying data. Techniques such as speedlines, flow ribbons, strobe silhouettes and opacity-based techniques provide temporal context to the ...

    • Results of a User Study on 2D Hurricane Visualization 

      Martin, Joel P.; II, J. Edward Swan; II, Robert J. Moorhead; Liu, Zhanping; Cai, Shangshu (The Eurographics Association and Blackwell Publishing Ltd., 2008)
      We present the results from a user study looking at the ability of observers to mentally integrate wind direction and magnitude over a vector field. The data set chosen for the study is an MM5 (PSU/NCAR Mesoscale Model) ...

    • Interactive Exploratory Visualization of 2D Vector Fields 

      Isenberg, Tobias; Everts, Maarten H.; Grubert, Jens; Carpendale, Sheelagh (The Eurographics Association and Blackwell Publishing Ltd., 2008)
      In this paper we present several techniques to interactively explore representations of 2D vector fields. Through a set of simple hand postures used on large, touch-sensitive displays, our approach allows individuals to ...

    • FromWeb Data to Visualization via Ontology Mapping 

      Gilson, Owen; Silva, Nuno; Grant, Phil W.; Chen, Min (The Eurographics Association and Blackwell Publishing Ltd., 2008)
      In this paper, we propose a novel approach for automatic generation of visualizations from domain-specific data available on the web. We describe a general system pipeline that combines ontology mapping and probabilistic ...

    • Centrality Based Visualization of Small World Graphs 

      Ham, Frank van; Wattenberg, Martin (The Eurographics Association and Blackwell Publishing Ltd., 2008)
      Current graph drawing algorithms enable the creation of two dimensional node-link diagrams of huge graphs. However, for graphs with low diameter (of which "small world" graphs are a subset) these techniques begin to break ...

    • Visual Inspection of Multivariate Graphs 

      Pretorius, A. Johannes; Wijk, Jarke J. van (The Eurographics Association and Blackwell Publishing Ltd., 2008)
      Most graph visualization techniques focus on the structure of graphs and do not offer support for dealing with node attributes and edge labels. To enable users to detect relations and patterns in terms of data associated ...

    • Navigation and Exploration of Interconnected Pathways 

      Streit, Marc; Kalkusch, M.; Kashofer, K.; Schmalstieg, Dieter (The Eurographics Association and Blackwell Publishing Ltd., 2008)
      Visualizing pathways, i. e. models of cellular functional networks, is a challenging task in computer assisted biomedicine. Pathways are represented as large collections of interwoven graphs, with complex structures present ...

    • Visual Abstractions of Solvent Pathlines near Protein Cavities 

      Bidmon, Katrin; Grottel, Sebastian; Bös, Fabian; Pleiss, Jürgen; Ertl, Thomas (The Eurographics Association and Blackwell Publishing Ltd., 2008)
      Water is known to play a crucial role in protein structure, flexibility and activity. The use of molecular dynamics simulations allows detailed studies of complex protein-solvent interactions. Cluster analysis and density-based ...

    • Sound Tracing: Rendering Listener Specific Acoustic Room Properties 

      Bellmann, Jens; Michel, Frank; Deines, Eduard; Hering-Bertram, Martin; Mohring, Jan; Hagen, Hans (The Eurographics Association and Blackwell Publishing Ltd., 2008)
      We present an acoustic rendering approach visualizing the listener-specific contribution of frequency-dependent pressure fields on a scene geometry with acoustic reflection and scattering properties. Our method facilitates ...

    • Investigative Visual Analysis of Global Terrorism 

      Wang, Xiaoyu; Miller, Erin; Smarick, Kathleen; Ribarsky, William; Chang, Remco (The Eurographics Association and Blackwell Publishing Ltd., 2008)
      Recent increases in terrorist activity around the world have made analyzing and understanding such activities more critical than ever. With the help of organizations such as the National Center for the Study of Terrorism ...

    • COPERNICUS: Context-Preserving Engine for Route Navigation with Interactive User-modifiable Scaling 

      Ziegler, Hartmut; Keim, Daniel A. (The Eurographics Association and Blackwell Publishing Ltd., 2008)
      In this paper, we present an automated system for generating context-preserving route maps that depict navigation routes as a path between nodes and edges inside a topographic network. Our application identifies relevant ...

    • Visualizing Genome Expression and Regulatory Network Dynamics in Genomic and Metabolic Context 

      Westenberg, Michel A.; Hijum, S. A. F. T. van; Kuipers, O. P.; Roerdink, Jos B. T. M. (The Eurographics Association and Blackwell Publishing Ltd., 2008)
      DNA microarrays are used to measure the expression levels of thousands of genes simultaneously. In a time series experiment, the gene expressions are measured as a function of time. We present an application for integrated ...

    • Density Displays for Data Stream Monitoring 

      Hao, Ming; Keim, Daniel A.; Dayal, Umeshwar; Oelke, Daniela; Tremblay, Chantal (The Eurographics Association and Blackwell Publishing Ltd., 2008)
      In many business applications, large data workloads such as sales figures or process performance measures need to be monitored in real-time. The data analysts want to catch problems in flight to reveal the root cause of ...

    • Visual Analysis and Semantic Exploration of Urban LIDAR Change Detection 

      Butkiewicz, Thomas; Chang, Remco; Wartell, Zachary; Ribarsky, William (The Eurographics Association and Blackwell Publishing Ltd., 2008)
      Many previous approaches to detecting urban change from LIDAR point clouds interpolate the points into rasters, perform pixel-based image processing to detect changes, and produce 2D images as output. We present a method ...

    • Towards Closing the Analysis Gap: Visual Generation of Decision Supporting Schemes from Raw Data 

      May, Thorsten; Kohlhammer, Jörn (The Eurographics Association and Blackwell Publishing Ltd., 2008)
      The derivation, manipulation and verification of analytical models from raw data is a process which requires a transformation of information across different levels of abstraction. We introduce a concept for the coupling ...

    • Classification and Uncertainty Visualization of Dendritic Spines from Optical Microscopy Imaging 

      Janoos, Firdaus; Nouansengsy, Boonthanome; Xu, Xiaoyin; Machiraju, Raghu; Wong, Stephen T. C. (The Eurographics Association and Blackwell Publishing Ltd., 2008)
      Abstract Neuronal dendrites and their spines affect the connectivity of neural networks, and play a significant role in many neurological conditions. Neuronal function is observed to be closely correlated with the appearance, ...