Interactive lens visualization techniques

  • Authors:
  • Christopher D. Shaw;James A. Hall;David S. Ebert;D. Aaron Roberts

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science, University of Regina, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada S4S 0A2;Department of Computer Science, University of Regina, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada S4S 0A2;Computer Science and Electrical Engineering Department, University of Maryland Baltimore County, 1000 Hilltop Circle, Baltimore, MD;NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Mailstop 692.0, Greenbelt, MD

  • Venue:
  • VIS '99 Proceedings of the conference on Visualization '99: celebrating ten years
  • Year:
  • 1999

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Abstract

This paper describes new techniques for minimally immersive visualization of 3D scalar and vector fields, and visualization of document corpora. In our glyph-based visualization system, the user interacts with the 3D volume of glyphs using a pair of button-enhanced 3D position and orientation trackers. The user may also examine the volume using an interactive lens, which is a rectangle that slices through the 3D volume and displays scalar information on its surface. A lens allows the display of scalar data in the 3D volume using a contour diagram, and a texture-based volume rendering.