On-Tube Attribute Visualization for Multivariate Trajectory Data

Stylized tubes are an established visualization primitive for line data as encountered in many scientific fields, ranging from characteristic lines in flow fields, fiber tracks reconstructed from diffusion tensor imaging, to trajectories of moving objects as they arise from cyber-physical systems in...

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Veröffentlicht in:IEEE transactions on visualization and computer graphics. - 1996. - 29(2023), 1 vom: 28. Jan., Seite 1288-1298
1. Verfasser: Russig, Benjamin (VerfasserIn)
Weitere Verfasser: Grab, David, Dachselt, Raimund, Gumhold, Stefan
Format: Online-Aufsatz
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: 2023
Zugriff auf das übergeordnete Werk:IEEE transactions on visualization and computer graphics
Schlagworte:Journal Article
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Zusammenfassung:Stylized tubes are an established visualization primitive for line data as encountered in many scientific fields, ranging from characteristic lines in flow fields, fiber tracks reconstructed from diffusion tensor imaging, to trajectories of moving objects as they arise from cyber-physical systems in many engineering disciplines. Typical challenges include large data set sizes demanding for efficient rendering techniques as well as a large number of attributes that cannot be mapped simultaneously to the basic visual attributes provided by a tube-based visualization. In this work, we tackle both challenges with a new on-tube visualization approach. We improve recent work on high-quality GPU ray casting of Hermite spline tubes supporting ambient occlusion and extend it by a new layered procedural texturing technique. In the proposed framework, a large number of data set attributes can be mapped simultaneously to a variety of glyphs and plots that are embedded in texture space and organized in layers. Efficient rendering with minimal data transfer is achieved by generating the glyphs procedurally and drawing them in a deferred shading pass. We integrated these techniques in a prototype visualization tool that facilitates flexible mapping of data set attributes to visual tube and glyph attributes. We studied our approach on a variety of example data from different fields and found it to provide a highly adaptable and extensible toolbox to quickly craft tailor-made tube-based trajectory visualizations
Beschreibung:Date Completed 05.04.2023
Date Revised 05.04.2023
published: Print-Electronic
Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE
ISSN:1941-0506
DOI:10.1109/TVCG.2022.3209400