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Conference stringclasses 6 values	Year int64 1.99k 2.03k	Title stringlengths 8 187	DOI stringlengths 16 32	Abstract stringlengths 128 7.15k ⌀	Accessible bool 2 classes	Early bool 2 classes	AuthorNames-Deduped listlengths 1 29	Award listlengths 0 2	Resources listlengths 0 5	ResourceLinks listlengths 0 10
Vis	1,990	A three-dimensional/stereoscopic display and model control system for Great Lakes forecasts	10.1109/VISUAL.1990.146382	A forecasting system for the Great Lakes in which the data generated by a three-dimensional numerical model is visualized by a 3-D/stereoscopic display module is discussed. The module consists of a control panel and a display window with the capability of interactively rendering the results. The event scheduling for sc...	false	false	[ "Chieh-Cheng Yen", "Keith W. Bedford", "Jill Kempf", "Robert E. Marshall" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,990	Accurate display of tensor product isosurfaces	10.1109/VISUAL.1990.146401	A general method for rendering isosurfaces of multivariate rational and polynomial tensor products is described. The method is robust up to degree 15, handling singularities without introducing spurious rendering artifacts. The approach does not solve the problem of singularities in general, but it removes the problem ...	false	false	[ "Alyn P. Rockwood" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,990	An interpersonal multimedia visualization system	10.1109/VISUAL.1990.146399	MediaView is a computer program that provides a generic infrastructure for authoring and interacting with multimedia documents. Among its applications is the ability to furnish a user with a comprehensive environment for analysis and visualization. With this program the user can produce a document that contains mathema...	false	false	[ "Richard L. Phillips" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,990	Animation techniques for chain-coded objects	10.1109/VISUAL.1990.146366	The animation of two-dimensional objects in a 2-D planar environment is discussed. The use of chain codes as a boundary representation for 2-D objects undergoing animation is shown to be practical for several typical transformations. Various methods for implementing the transformations are described. Quantized methods ...	false	false	[ "Anthony J. Maeder" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,990	Applying space subdivision techniques to volume rendering	10.1109/VISUAL.1990.146377	The authors present a ray-tracing algorithm for volume rendering designed to work efficiently when the data of interest is distributed sparsely through the volume. A simple preprocessing step identifies the voxels representing features of interest. Frequently this set of voxels, arbitrarily distributed in three-dimensi...	false	false	[ "Kalpathi R. Subramanian", "Donald S. Fussell" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,990	Automatic illustration of 3D geometric models: surfaces	10.1109/VISUAL.1990.146395	The authors present techniques for automating the illustration of geometric models based on traditional hand illustration methods. A system based on the techniques of traditional illustrators for automatically generating illustrations of complex three-dimensional models is described. The system relies on a richer set o...	false	false	[ "Debra Dooley", "Michael F. Cohen" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,990	Case study in scientific visualization: factors inducing periodic breathing in humans with blunted hypoxic sensitivity	10.1109/VISUAL.1990.146415	The problem of presenting and gaining deeper understanding of a multidimensional system, a mathematical model Predicting 20-90 s oscillations in breathing, is presented. The authors utilized custom software for interactive analysis of a three-dimensional model, plus Wavefront software to render translucent images of th...	false	false	[ "Wayne E. Fordyce", "Jeffrey Ventrella" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,990	Classifying visual knowledge representations: a foundation for visualization research	10.1109/VISUAL.1990.146374	An exploratory effort to classify visual representations into homogeneous clusters is discussed. The authors collected hierarchical sorting data from twelve subjects. Five principal groups of visual representations emerged from a cluster analysis of sorting data: graphs and tables, maps, diagrams, networks, and icons. ...	false	false	[ "Gerald L. Lohse", "Henry H. Rueter", "Kevin Biolsi", "Neff Walker" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,990	Design of an end-user data visualization system	10.1109/VISUAL.1990.146397	The authors describe the architecture of an end-user visualization system that supports interactive analysis of three-dimensional scalar and vector data in a heterogeneous hardware environment. The system supports a variety of visualization methods with applicability in disciplines such as computational fluid dynamics,...	false	false	[ "Donald L. Brittain", "Josh Aller", "Michael Wilson", "Sue-Ling C. Wang" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,990	Displaying voxel-based objects according to their qualitative shape synthesis	10.1109/VISUAL.1990.146364	The use of qualitative shape synthesis for the display of 3-D binary objects is presented. The proposed approach is applicable to multi-object scenes and to outdoor scenery as well. It makes use of a new method, the diffusion process, that simulates diffusion of particles within the interior of a 3-D discrete object. S...	false	false	[ "Yaser Yacoob" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,990	Dynamic graphics for network visualization	10.1109/VISUAL.1990.146369	The authors describe several dynamic graphics tools for visualizing network data involving statistics associated with the nodes or links in a network. The authors suggest a number of ideas for the static display of network data, while motivating the need for interaction through dynamic graphics. A brief discussion of d...	false	false	[ "Richard A. Becker", "Stephen G. Eick", "Eileen O. Miller", "Allan R. Wilks" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,990	Exploring N-dimensional databases	10.1109/VISUAL.1990.146386	The authors present a tool for the display and analysis of N-dimensional data based on a technique called dimensional stacking. This technique is described. The primary goal is to create a tool that enables the user to project data of arbitrary dimensions onto a two-dimensional image. Of equal importance is the ability...	false	false	[ "Jeffrey LeBlanc", "Matthew O. Ward", "Norman Wittels" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,990	Extracting geometric models through constraint minimization	10.1109/VISUAL.1990.146367	The authors propose a methodology that will extract a topologically closed geometric model from a two-dimensional image. This is accomplished by starting with a simple model that is already topologically closed and deforming the model, based on a set of constraints, so that the model grows (shrinks) to fit the feature ...	false	false	[ "James V. Miller", "David E. Breen", "Michael J. Wozny" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,990	FAST: a multi-processed environment for visualization of computational fluid dynamics	10.1109/VISUAL.1990.146360	The authors discuss FAST (flow analysis software toolkit), an implementation of a software system for fluid mechanics analysis. Visualization of computational aerodynamics requires flexible, extensible, and adaptable software tools for performing analysis tasks. An overview of FAST is given, and its architecture is dis...	false	false	[ "Gordon V. Bancroft", "Fergus Merritt", "Todd Plessel", "Paul G. Kelaita", "R. Kevin McCabe", "Al Globus" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,990	Hierarchical triangulation using terrain features	10.1109/VISUAL.1990.146379	A hierarchical triangulation built from a digital elevation model in grid form is described. The authors present an algorithm that produces a hierarchy of triangulations in which each level of the hierarchy corresponds to a guaranteed level of accuracy. The number of very thin triangles (slivers) is significantly reduc...	false	false	[ "Lori L. Scarlatos", "Theodosios Pavlidis" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,990	Interactive investigation of fluid mechanics data sets	10.1109/VISUAL.1990.146416	FIELDVIEW, a visual analysis tool designed to facilitate the interactive investigation of fluid mechanics data sets by providing an easy-to-use interface to the flow field data, is presented. Operating on NASA Plot three-dimensional format data, FIELDVIEW computes scalar and vector flow quantities and displays them usi...	false	false	[ "Steve M. Legensky" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,990	Interactive visualization of quaternion Julia sets	10.1109/VISUAL.1990.146384	The first half of a two-step quaternion Julia set visualization system is described. This step uses a quarternion square root function to adapt the classic inverse iteration algorithm to the quaternions. The augmented version produces a 3-D Julia set defined by a point cloud that can be interactively manipulated on a g...	false	false	[ "John C. Hart", "Louis H. Kauffman", "Dan Sandin" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,990	Interpreting a 3D object from a rough 2D line drawing	10.1109/VISUAL.1990.146365	Visualizing the third dimension while designing three-dimensional (3-D) objects is an awkward process in mechanical computer-aided-design (CAD) systems, given the current state of the art. The authors describe a computer system that automatically constructs the shape of a 3-D object from a single 2-D sketch. The method...	false	false	[ "Del Lamb", "Amit Bandopadhay" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,990	Methods for surface interrogation	10.1109/VISUAL.1990.146381	The authors discuss various visualization techniques that have the goal of identifying unwanted curvature regions interactively on screen. The authors give a critical survey of surface interrogation methods. Several isoline and contouring techniques are presented, and the reflection line method, which simulates the so-...	false	false	[ "Hans Hagen", "Thomas Schreiber", "Ernst Gschwind" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,990	Moving iconic objects in scientific visualization	10.1109/VISUAL.1990.146373	The idea of independently moving, interacting graphical objects is introduced as a method for the visualization of continuous fields. Bird-oid objects or boids are discussed. These boids derive from: (1) icons which are geometric objects whose shape and appearance are related to the field variables, (2) three-dimension...	false	false	[ "G. David Kerlick" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,990	Parallel coordinates: a tool for visualizing multi-dimensional geometry	10.1109/VISUAL.1990.146402	A methodology for visualizing analytic and synthetic geometry in R/sup N/ is presented. It is based on a system of parallel coordinates which induces a nonprojective mapping between N-dimensional and two-dimensional sets. Hypersurfaces are represented by their planar images which have some geometrical properties analog...	false	false	[ "Alfred Inselberg", "Bernard Dimsdale" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,990	Personal visualization system: applications in research and engineering	10.1109/VISUAL.1990.146418	The authors describe an innovative personal visualization system and its application to several research and engineering problems. The system bridges both hardware and software components to permit a user to graphically describe a visualization problem to the computer; thereby reducing program development time to a few...	false	false	[ "Quentin E. Dolecek", "K. Moorjani", "B. F. Kim", "D. G. Tilley", "Thomas S. Denney Jr." ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,990	Ray traced scalar fields with shaded polygonal output	10.1109/VISUAL.1990.146390	An algorithm for rendering scalar field data that reduces rendering times by as much as two orders of magnitude over traditional full resolution images is presented. Less than full-resolution sampling of the scalar field is performed using a fast ray tracing method. The sampling grid points are output as a set of scree...	false	false	[ "Ray J. Meyers", "Michael B. Stephenson" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,990	Real-world applications of visualization solutions	10.1109/VISUAL.1990.146417	Visual data analysis (VDA) is a visualization approach that combines vector and raster graphics to provide insights into various aspects of multidimensional datasets. VDA methods have found application in aerospace engineering research, VDA is being used to develop nondestructive evaluation testing techniques for graph...	false	false	[ "David A. Prawel" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,990	Rendering and managing spherical data with sphere quadtrees	10.1109/VISUAL.1990.146380	The sphere quadtree (SQT), which is based on the recursive subdivision of spherical triangles obtained by projecting the faces of an icosahedron onto a sphere, is discussed. Most databases for spherically distributed data are not structured in a manner consistent with their geometry. As a result, such databases possess...	false	false	[ "Gyorgy Fekete" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,990	Scattered data interpolation tools in a microcomputer visualization environment	10.1109/VISUAL.1990.146396	A package that can bridge the connection between scattered data sets and the highly structured sets required by graphics algorithms is described. Although export of evaluation data is a necessary capability, it is very important that this package has a fully featured three-dimensional graphics subsystem to interactivel...	false	false	[ "Keith Voegele" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,990	Shape coding of multidimensional data on a microcomputer display	10.1109/VISUAL.1990.146387	The author presents a simple and flexible method of sharp coding for higher dimensional data sets that allows the database operator or the scientist quick access to promising patterns within and among records or samples. The example used is a 13-parameter set of solar wind, magnetosphere, and ground observation data co...	false	false	[ "Jeff Beddow" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,990	Spline-based color sequences for univariate, bivariate and trivariate mapping	10.1109/VISUAL.1990.146383	Alternative models that use B-spline curves and surfaces for generating color sequences for univariate, bivariate, and trivariate mapping are introduced. The main aim is to break away from simple geometric representation in order to provide more flexibility and control over color selection. This facilitates the task of...	false	false	[ "Binh Pham 0001" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,990	Superposing images with shadow casting	10.1109/VISUAL.1990.146394	Algorithms for rendering complex and shaded animation sequences are described. The target display device for these image rendering algorithms is a multichannel display based on the superposing technique realized in hardware. An animation sequence is displayed by superposing a dynamic foreground on a static background. ...	false	false	[ "Philip C. Hsu", "John Staudhammer" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,990	Surface representations of two- and three-dimensional fluid flow topology	10.1109/VISUAL.1990.146359	The use of critical point analysis to generate representations of the vector field topology of numerical flow data sets is discussed. Critical points are located and characterized in a two-dimensional domain, which may be either a two-dimensional flow field or the tangential velocity field near a three-dimensional body...	false	false	[ "James Helman", "Lambertus Hesselink" ]	[ "BP" ]	[]	[]
Vis	1,990	Techniques for the interactive visualization of volumetric data	10.1109/VISUAL.1990.146363	Some ideas and techniques for visualizing volumetric data are introduced. The methods presented are different from both the volume rendering techniques and surface contour methods. Volumetric data is data with a domain of three independent variables. The independent variables do not have to indicate a position in space...	false	false	[ "Gregory M. Nielson", "Bernd Hamann" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,990	Techniques for visualizing 3-dimensional manifolds	10.1109/VISUAL.1990.146400	Computer graphics has long been concerned with representing and displaying surfaces in three-dimensional space. The author addresses the questions of representation and display in a higher dimensional setting, specifically, that of 3-manifolds immersed in four-dimensional space. The author describes techniques for visu...	false	false	[ "Michael J. Laszlo" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,990	Techniques for visualizing Fermat's last theorem: a case study	10.1109/VISUAL.1990.146370	The authors describe some mathematical approaches and computer graphics techniques for illustrating concepts related to Fermat's last theorem. They present a selection of visualization methods, and describe observations made in the process of creating a three-minute computer animated videotape dealing with some element...	false	false	[ "Andrew J. Hanson", "Pheng-Ann Heng", "B. C. Kaplan" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,990	The application of transport theory to visualization of 3D scalar data fields	10.1109/VISUAL.1990.146391	The author describes a visualization model for three-dimensional scalar data fields based on linear transport theory. The concept of virtual particles for the extraction of information from data fields in introduced. The role of different types of interaction of the data field with those particles such as absorption, s...	false	false	[ "Wolfgang Krüger" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,990	The VIS-5D system for easy interactive visualization	10.1109/VISUAL.1990.146361	The VIS-5D system provides highly interactive visual access to five-dimensional data sets containing up to 50 million data points. VIS-5D runs on the Stardent ST-1000 and ST-2000 workstations and generates animated three-dimensional graphics from gridded data sets in real time. It provides a widget-based user interface...	false	false	[ "Bill Hibbard", "David A. Santek" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,990	Visualization and three-dimensional image processing of positron emission tomography (PET) brain images	10.1109/VISUAL.1990.146376	The author applied image processing and volume rendering algorithms together with considerations on the physiology of the human visual system to improve the quality of perception of the information contained in positron emission tomography (PET) brain images, and to highlight the existing anatomical information. The ps...	false	false	[ "Nahum D. Gershon" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,990	Visualization for nonlinear engineering FEM analysis in manufacturing	10.1109/VISUAL.1990.146412	This case study describes how visualization tools were used in a nonlinear finite-element method (FEM) analysis of rivet deformation. After summarizing the problem at hand, it is concluded that three factors that aided the visualization process in this case can be extracted as general principles: first, focus the viewe...	false	false	[ "Gerald W. Edgar" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,990	Visualization for the information age	10.1109/VISUAL.1990.146414	Summary form only given. The basic parameters of current TV, the origins of HDTV, and the various types of TV systems being proposed in Japan, America and Europe are reviewed. Available HDTV hardware, new applications that this hardware enables, and the economics involved are discussed. How HDTV fits into the film and ...	false	false	[ "Laurin Herr" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,990	Visualization of free form volumes	10.1109/VISUAL.1990.146403	An algorithm that creates planar and arbitrarily curved sections of free-form volumes is presented. The definition of free-form volumes generalizes techniques from free-form curves and surfaces to trivariate representation. The definition is given for volumes in the Bernstein-Bezier representation. The author illustrat...	false	false	[ "Dieter Lasser" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,990	Visualization of irregular multivariate data	10.1109/VISUAL.1990.146388	The authors discuss effective techniques for representing scalar and vector valued functions that interpolate to irregularly located data. Special attention is given to the situations where the sampling domain is a two-dimensional plane, 3-D volume, or a closed 3-D surface. The authors first discuss the multiquadric an...	false	false	[ "Thomas A. Foley", "David A. Lane" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,990	Visualization of scalar data defined on a structured grid-applications to petroleum research	10.1109/VISUAL.1990.146392	The authors describe some simple visualization techniques that may be used to explore dynamic three-dimensional scalar fields in an interactive way. Scalar data are assumed to have been already computed, and graphic manipulations are done afterwards on a graphics workstation. Structured grids (finite-difference grids) ...	false	false	[ "J. L. Pajon", "V. Bui Tran" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,990	Visualizing a scalar field on an N-dimensional lattice	10.1109/VISUAL.1990.146389	The authors address the problem of visualizing a scalar dependent variable which is a function of many independent variables. In particular, cases where the number of independent variables is three or greater are discussed. A new hierarchical method of plotting that allows one to interactively view millions of data poi...	false	false	[ "Ted Mihalisin", "E. Grawlinksi", "John Timlin", "John Schwegler" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,990	Visualizing computer memory architectures	10.1109/VISUAL.1990.146371	The authors describe a conceptual model, the memory hierarchy framework, and a visual language for using the model. The model is more faithful to the structure of computers than the Von Neumann and Turing models. It addresses the issues of data movement and exposes and unifies storage mechanisms such as cache, translat...	false	false	[ "Bowen Alpern", "Larry Carter", "Ted Selker" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,990	Volume microscopy of biological specimens based on non-confocal imaging techniques	10.1109/VISUAL.1990.146413	An approach that uses advanced computer graphics workstations and volume rendering algorithms for accurate reconstruction of volumetric microscopy data is described. It has been found that excellent reconstructions can be made from serial sections acquired using a charge-coupled device and a conventional light microsco...	false	false	[ "Stephen L. Senft", "Vincent J. Argio", "William L. van Zandt" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,990	Volume visualization in cell biology	10.1109/VISUAL.1990.146378	The authors discuss the special properties of volumetric cell data (e.g., noise, discontinuity, raggedness) and the particular difficulties encountered when trying to visualize them in three dimensions. The authors describe some of the solutions adopted, specifically in surface discrimination and shading. Nerve cells (...	false	false	[ "Arie E. Kaufman", "Roni Yagel", "Reuven Bakalash", "I. Spector" ]	[]	[]	[]
Vis	1,990	Wide-band relativistic Doppler effect visualization	10.1109/VISUAL.1990.146368	The authors present a flexible and efficient method to simulate the Doppler shift. In this new method the spectral curves of surface properties and light composition are represented by spline functions of wavelength. These functions can cover the entire electromagnetic (EM) waves bandwidth, and incorporate the thermal ...	false	false	[ "Ping-Kang Hsiung", "Robert H. Thibadeau", "Christopher B. Cox", "Robert H. P. Dunn", "Michael Wu", "Paul Andrew Olbrich" ]	[]	[]	[]
CHI	1,990	Business instrument panel: a new paradigm for interfacing with financial data	10.1145/97243.97269	The business instrument panel uses visualization to present, in a comprehensive and integrated manner, all the important elements found in traditional financial statements. By means of analog representation in a simple computer generated picture, the business instrument panel replaces the four traditional financial sta...	false	false	[ "C. Torben Thomsen" ]	[]	[]	[]
CHI	1,990	Stereophonic and surface sound generation for exploratory data analysis	10.1145/97243.97264	The analysis and interpretation of very high dimensional data require the development and use of data presentation techniques that harness human perceptual powers. The University of Lowell's Exploratory Visualization project (Exvis) aims at designing, implementing, and evaluating perceptually-based tools for data prese...	false	false	[ "Stuart Smith", "R. Daniel Bergeron", "Georges G. Grinstein" ]	[]	[]	[]
CHI	1,990	Track - a trace construction kit	10.1145/97243.97318	TRACK is a kit to interactively construct environments that trace the execution of methods and the flow of messages between SMALLTALK-80 objects. It enables the user to set up traces by means of direct manipulation. This is done by placing obstacles between icons representing specific classes and instances much in the ...	false	false	[ "Heinz-Dieter Böcker", "Jürgen Herczeg" ]	[]	[]	[]
CHI	1,989	Constraint grammars-a new model for specifying graphical applications	10.1145/67449.67513	User Interface Management Systems often attempt to separate the graphical and nongraphical aspects of an application, but rarely succeed. Constraint grammars provide a new model for specifying interfaces that achieves this goal by encapsulating the data structures in a single package, and providing a powerful transform...	false	false	[ "Bradley T. Vander Zanden" ]	[]	[]	[]
CHI	1,988	Grasping reality through illusion - interactive graphics serving science	10.1145/57167.57168	I treat three related subjects: virtual-worlds research—the construction of real-time 3-D illusions by computer graphics; some observations about interfaces to virtual worlds; and the coming application of virtual-worlds techniques to the enhancement of scientific computing. We need to design generalized interfaces for...	false	false	[ "Frederick P. Brooks Jr." ]	[]	[]	[]
CHI	1,986	Design principles for the enhanced presentation of computer program source text	10.1145/22627.22348	In order to make computer programs more readable, understandable, appealing, memorable, and maintainable, the presentation of program source text needs to be enhanced over its conventional treatment. Towards this end, we present five basic design principles for enhanced program visualization and a framework for applyin...	false	false	[ "Ronald Baecker", "Aaron Marcus" ]	[]	[]	[]
CHI	1,986	Visual programming, programming by example, and program visualization: a taxonomy	10.1145/22627.22349	There has been a great interest recently in systems that use graphics to aid in the programming, debugging, and understanding of computer programs. The terms “Visual Programming” and “Program Visualization” have been applied to these systems. Also, there has been a renewed interest in using examples to help alleviate t...	false	false	[ "Brad A. Myers" ]	[]	[]	[]

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