Volume 31 (2012): Recent submissions
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Reliable Adaptive Modelling of Vascular Structures with Non-Circular Cross-Sections
(The Eurographics Association and Blackwell Publishing Ltd., 2012)Accurate visualizations of complex vascular structures are essential for medical applications, such as diagnosis, therapy planning and medical education. Vascular trees are usually described using centerlines, since they ... -
Probabilistic Local Features in Uncertain Vector Fields with Spatial Correlation
(The Eurographics Association and Blackwell Publishing Ltd., 2012)In this paper methods for extraction of local features in crisp vector fields are extended to uncertain fields. While in a crisp field local features are either present or absent at some location, in an uncertain field ... -
Vortex Analysis in Uncertain Vector Fields
(The Eurographics Association and Blackwell Publishing Ltd., 2012)We present an approach to extract and visualize vortex structures in uncertain vector fields. For this, we generalize the concepts of the most common vortex detectors to uncertain vector fields, namely the λ ... -
Visualization of Global Correlation Structures in Uncertain 2D Scalar Fields
(The Eurographics Association and Blackwell Publishing Ltd., 2012)Visualizing correlations, i.e., the tendency of uncertain data values at different spatial positions to change contrarily or according to each other, allows inferring on the possible variations of structures in the data. ... -
A Qualitative Study on the Exploration of Temporal Changes in Flow Maps with Animation and Small-Multiples
(The Eurographics Association and Blackwell Publishing Ltd., 2012)We present a qualitative user study analyzing findings made while exploring changes over time in spatial interactions. We analyzed findings made by the study participants with flow maps, one of the most popular representations ... -
Conceptualizing Visual Uncertainty in Parallel Coordinates
(The Eurographics Association and Blackwell Publishing Ltd., 2012)Uncertainty is an intrinsic part of any visual representation in visualization, no matter how precise the input data. Existing research on uncertainty in visualization mainly focuses on depicting data-space uncertainty in ... -
Comparative Evaluation of an Interactive Time-Series Visualization that Combines Quantitative Data with Qualitative Abstractions
(The Eurographics Association and Blackwell Publishing Ltd., 2012)In many application areas, analysts have to make sense of large volumes of multivariate time-series data. Explorative analysis of this kind of data is often difficult and overwhelming at the level of raw data. Temporal ... -
Drawing Large Graphs by Low-Rank Stress Majorization
(The Eurographics Association and Blackwell Publishing Ltd., 2012)Optimizing a stress model is a natural technique for drawing graphs: one seeks an embedding into Rd which best preserves the induced graph metric. Current approaches to solving the stress model for a graph with jVj ... -
Using Signposts for Navigation in Large Graphs
(The Eurographics Association and Blackwell Publishing Ltd., 2012)In this paper we present a new Focus & Context technique for the exploration of large, abstract graphs. Most Focus & Context techniques present context in a visual way. In contrast, our technique uses a symbolic representation: ... -
Parallel Computation of 3D Morse-Smale Complexes
(The Eurographics Association and Blackwell Publishing Ltd., 2012)The Morse-Smale complex is a topological structure that captures the behavior of the gradient of a scalar function on a manifold. This paper discusses scalable techniques to compute the Morse-Smale complex of scalar functions ... -
The World's Languages Explorer: Visual Analysis of Language Features in Genealogical and Areal Contexts
(The Eurographics Association and Blackwell Publishing Ltd., 2012)This paper presents a novel Visual Analytics approach that helps linguistic researchers to explore the world's languages with respect to several important tasks: (1) The comparison of manually and automatically extracted ... -
Magnetic Flux Topology of 2D Point Dipoles
(The Eurographics Association and Blackwell Publishing Ltd., 2012)Magnetic fields exhibit higher-order, nonlinear singularities in the form of point-dipole singularities. In addition, due to absence of divergence, they feature only a subset of invariant structures from traditional vector ... -
A Quantized Boundary Representation of 2D Flows
(The Eurographics Association and Blackwell Publishing Ltd., 2012)Analysis and visualization of complex vector fields remain major challenges when studying large scale simulation of physical phenomena. The primary reason is the gap between the concepts of smooth vector field theory and ... -
Travel-Route-Centered Metro Map Layout and Annotation
(The Eurographics Association and Blackwell Publishing Ltd., 2012)When providing travel guides for a specific route in a metro network, we often place the route around the center of the map and annotate stations on the route with thumbnail photographs. Nonetheless, existing methods do ... -
Scalable Detection of Spatiotemporal Encounters in Historical Movement Data
(The Eurographics Association and Blackwell Publishing Ltd., 2012)The widespread adoption of location-aware devices is resulting in the generation of large amounts of spatiotemporal movement data, collected and stored in digital repositories. This forms a fertile ground for domain experts ... -
Multi-layer Illustrative Dense Flow Visualization
(The Eurographics Association and Blackwell Publishing Ltd., 2012)We present a dense visualization of vector fields on multi-layered surfaces. The method is based on the illustration buffer, which provides a screen space representation of the surface, where each pixel stores a list of ... -
Illustrative Membrane Clipping
(The Eurographics Association and Blackwell Publishing Ltd., 2012)Clipping is a fast, common technique for resolving occlusions. It only requires simple interaction, is easily understandable, and thus has been very popular for volume exploration. However, a drawback of clipping is that ... -
Interactive Visualization of Generalized Virtual 3D City Models using Level-of-Abstraction Transitions
(The Eurographics Association and Blackwell Publishing Ltd., 2012)Virtual 3D city models play an important role in the communication of complex geospatial information in a growing number of applications, such as urban planning, navigation, tourist information, and disaster management. ... -
Kelp Diagrams: Point Set Membership Visualization
(The Eurographics Association and Blackwell Publishing Ltd., 2012)We present Kelp Diagrams, a novel method to depict set relations over points, i.e., elements with predefined positions. Our method creates schematic drawings and has been designed to take aesthetic quality, efficiency, and ... -
Graph Bundling by Kernel Density Estimation
(The Eurographics Association and Blackwell Publishing Ltd., 2012)We present a fast and simple method to compute bundled layouts of general graphs. For this, we first transform a given graph drawing into a density map using kernel density estimation. Next, we apply an image sharpening ...