Research report: DataSpace: 3-D visualizations of large databases

  • Authors:
  • V. Anupam;S. Dar;T. Leibfried;E. Petajan

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-;-

  • Venue:
  • INFOVIS '95 Proceedings of the 1995 IEEE Symposium on Information Visualization
  • Year:
  • 1995

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Abstract

DataSpace is a system for interactive 3-D visualization and analysis of large databases. DataSpace utilizes the display space by placing panels of information, possibly generated by different visualization applications, in a 3-D graph layout, and providing continuous navigation facilities. Selective rearrangements and transparency can be used to reduce occlusion or to compare or merge a set of images (e.g. line graphs or scatter plots) that are aligned and stacked in depth. A prototype system supporting the basic 3-D graphic operations (layout, zoom, rotation, translation, transparency) has been implemented. We provide several illustrative examples of DataSpace displays taken from the current system. We present the 3-D display paradigm, describe the query, layout and rendering steps required to create a display, and discuss some performance issues.