Space-Scale Animation: Enhancing Cross-Scale Understanding of Multiscale Structures in Multiple Views

  • Authors:
  • Xiaolong Zhang

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Arizona

  • Venue:
  • CMV '05 Proceedings of the Coordinated and Multiple Views in Exploratory Visualization
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

Large information or model structures often span manyscale levels, and exhibit important features at each scale.Having a coherent and cross-scale understanding of suchmultiscale structures often requires users to interact withthe structures at different scales. While multiple views allowusers to see the structures from different locations and atdifferent scales, establishing cross-scale connections betweenstructures in divergent multiple views could be a challenge.This paper proposes a new interactive design, space-scaleanimation, to visualize the spatial and semantic relationshipbetween structures in different views, and discusses the designand implementation of space-scale animation as a dynamic view transition traversing space and scale. This research not only extends interactive animation techniques by explicitly considering the scale factor, but also argues the necessity to integrate cross-scale semantic information into animation to improve the understanding of complex structures.