Coaxial interactive viewer: a multi-dimensional data visualization with spatial distortional views

  • Authors:
  • Jiawan Zhang;Yi Zhang;Lei Fu;Qinghui Guo;Maolin Huang

  • Affiliations:
  • Tianjin University, NanKai Dist., Tianjin;Tianjin University, NanKai Dist., Tianjin;Tianjin University, NanKai Dist., Tianjin;Tianjin University, NanKai Dist., Tianjin, China;University of Technology Sydney, Broadway, NSW, Australia

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 2011 Visual Information Communication - International Symposium
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

We present a navigatable multi-dimensional visualization of data named coaxial interactive visualization which is based on the coaxial axes. In this visualization, the dimensions of data in n-dimensional space are mapped to n concentric circular axes drawn in a planar space with polar coordinates. A data item in n-dimensional space is represented as a poly-curve with n vertices across all circular axes. Via the spatial distortion in polar system, the view of multi-dimensional data is interactively adjusted to satisfy viewer's interest. The viewer, thus, can effectively navigate the underlying visual pattern to reach the great detail for uncovering trends and patterns in the visualization. One novelties of this work is performing focus+context viewing in polar coordinate system.