A Tri-Space Visualization Interface for Analyzing Time-Varying Multivariate Volume Data

The dataset generated by a large-scale numerical simulation may include thousands of timesteps and hundreds of variables describing different aspects of the modeled physical phenomena. In order to analyze and understand such data, scientists need the capability to explore simultaneously in the temporal, spatial, and variable domains of the data. Such capability, however, is not generally provided by conventional visualization tools. This paper presents sualization interface addressing this problem. The interface consists of three components which abstracts the complexity of exploring in temporal, variable, and spatial domain, respectively. The first component displays time histograms of the data, helps the user identify timesteps of interest, and also helps specify time-varying features. The second component displays correlations between variables in parallel coordinates and enables the user to verify those correlations and possibly identity unanticipated ones. The third component all...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2007
• Where: VISSYM
• Authors: Hiroshi Akiba, Kwan-Liu Ma
• Keywords: Component Displays, Computer Graphics, Spatial Domain, VISSYM 2007, Visualization