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Probabilistic Marching Cubes
(The Eurographics Association and Blackwell Publishing Ltd., 2011)In this paper we revisit the computation and visualization of equivalents to isocontours in uncertain scalar fields. We model uncertainty by discrete random fields and, in contrast to previous methods, also take arbitrary ... -
Visualization and Analysis of Eddies in a Global Ocean Simulation
(The Eurographics Association and Blackwell Publishing Ltd., 2011)We present analysis and visualization of flow data from a high-resolution simulation of the dynamical behavior of the global ocean. Of particular scientific interest are coherent vortical features called mesoscale eddies. ... -
Illustrative Molecular Visualization with Continuous Abstraction
(The Eurographics Association and Blackwell Publishing Ltd., 2011)Molecular systems may be visualized with various degrees of structural abstraction, support of spatial perception, and 'illustrativeness.' In this work we propose and realize methods to create seamless transformations that ... -
Lagrangian Coherent Structures with Guaranteed Material Separation
(The Eurographics Association and Blackwell Publishing Ltd., 2011)Given an unsteady flow field, one common way to compute Lagrangian Coherent Structures (LCS) is to extract extremal structures of the Finite Time Lyapunov Exponent (FTLE). Experience has shown that the resulting structures ... -
Topological Features in 2D Symmetric Higher-Order Tensor Fields
(The Eurographics Association and Blackwell Publishing Ltd., 2011)The topological structure of scalar, vector, and second-order tensor fields provides an important mathematical basis for data analysis and visualization. In this paper, we extend this framework towards higher-order tensors. ... -
Semantic-Preserving Word Clouds by Seam Carving
(The Eurographics Association and Blackwell Publishing Ltd., 2011)Word clouds are proliferating on the Internet and have received much attention in visual analytics. Although word clouds can help users understand the major content of a document collection quickly, their ability to visually ... -
Curve Density Estimates
(The Eurographics Association and Blackwell Publishing Ltd., 2011)In this work, we present a technique based on kernel density estimation for rendering smooth curves. With this approach, we produce uncluttered and expressive pictures, revealing frequency information about one, or, multiple ... -
A Visual Analytics Approach for Peak-Preserving Prediction of Large Seasonal Time Series
(The Eurographics Association and Blackwell Publishing Ltd., 2011)Time series prediction methods are used on a daily basis by analysts for making important decisions. Most of these methods use some variant of moving averages to reduce the number of data points before prediction. However, ... -
A User Study of Visualization Effectiveness Using EEG and Cognitive Load
(The Eurographics Association and Blackwell Publishing Ltd., 2011)Effectively evaluating visualization techniques is a difficult task often assessed through feedback from user studies and expert evaluations. This work presents an alternative approach to visualization evaluation in which ... -
WaveMap: Interactively Discovering Features From Protein Flexibility Matrices Using Wavelet-based Visual Analytics
(The Eurographics Association and Blackwell Publishing Ltd., 2011)The knowledge gained from biology datasets can streamline and speed-up pharmaceutical development. However, computational models generate so much information regarding protein behavior that large-scale analysis by traditional ... -
Evaluation of the Visibility of Vessel Movement Features in Trajectory Visualizations
(The Eurographics Association and Blackwell Publishing Ltd., 2011)There are many visualizations that show the trajectory of a moving object to obtain insights in its behavior. In this user study, we test the performance of three of these visualizations with respect to three movement ... -
A Shader Framework for Rapid Prototyping of GPU-Based Volume Rendering
(The Eurographics Association and Blackwell Publishing Ltd., 2011)In this paper, we present a rapid prototyping framework for GPU-based volume rendering. Therefore, we propose a dynamic shader pipeline based on the SuperShader concept and illustrate the design decisions. Also, important ... -
Anatomy-Guided Multi-Level Exploration of Blood Flow in Cerebral Aneurysms
(The Eurographics Association and Blackwell Publishing Ltd., 2011)For cerebral aneurysms, the ostium, the area of inflow, is an important anatomic landmark, since it separates the pathological vessel deformation from the healthy parent vessel. A better understanding of the inflow ... -
Depth of Field Effects for Interactive Direct Volume Rendering
(The Eurographics Association and Blackwell Publishing Ltd., 2011)In this paper, a method for interactive direct volume rendering is proposed for computing depth of field effects, which previously were shown to aid observers in depth and size perception of synthetically generated images. ... -
Exploring Collections of Tagged Text for Literary Scholarship
(The Eurographics Association and Blackwell Publishing Ltd., 2011)Modern literary scholars must combine access to vast collections of text with the traditional close analysis of their field. In this paper, we discuss the design and development of tools to support this work. Based on ... -
Complete Tensor Field Topology on 2D Triangulated Manifolds embedded in 3D
(The Eurographics Association and Blackwell Publishing Ltd., 2011)This paper is concerned with the extraction of the surface topology of tensor fields on 2D triangulated manifolds embedded in 3D. In scientific visualization topology is a meaningful instrument to get a hold on the structure ... -
Dynamic Insets for Context-Aware Graph Navigation
(The Eurographics Association and Blackwell Publishing Ltd., 2011)Maintaining both overview and detail while navigating in graphs, such as road networks, airline route maps, or social networks, is difficult, especially when targets of interest are located far apart. We present a navigation ... -
Visual Boosting in Pixel-based Visualizations
(The Eurographics Association and Blackwell Publishing Ltd., 2011)Pixel-based visualizations have become popular, because they are capable of displaying large amounts of data and at the same time provide many details. However, pixel-based visualizations are only effective if the data set ... -
Energy-scale Aware Feature Extraction for Flow Visualization
(The Eurographics Association and Blackwell Publishing Ltd., 2011)In the visualization of flow simulation data, feature detectors often tend to result in overly rich response, making some sort of filtering or simplification necessary to convey meaningful images. In this paper we present ... -
Visual Reconstructability as a Quality Metric for Flow Visualization
(The Eurographics Association and Blackwell Publishing Ltd., 2011)We present a novel approach for the evaluation of 2D flow visualizations based on the visual reconstructability of the input vector fields. According to this metric, a visualization has high quality if the underlying data ...