Fourteen ways to say nothing with scientific visualization

Author

Globus, Al ; Raible, Eric

Author_Institution

Comput. Sci. Corp., NASA Ames Res. Center, Moffett Field, CA, USA

Volume

27

Issue

7

fYear

1994

fDate

7/1/1994 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

86

Lastpage

88

Abstract

In "Twelve Ways to Fool the Masses When Giving Performance Results on Parallel Computers," (see Supercomputer Rev., vol.4, no.8, p.54-5, 1991) David Bailey ends with the admonition, "Conclude your technical presentation and roll the videotape. Audiences love razzle-dazzle color graphics, and this material often helps deflect attention from the substantive technical issues." Unfortunately, Bailey gives no guidance in the means and methods for producing such a result. This article seeks to fill this void. There are numerous time-tested scientific visualization techniques for producing pretty pictures while avoiding unnecessary illumination of the data. Our collection has been culled from the scientific visualization literature and numerous presentations we have given and attended.<>

Keywords

data analysis; data visualisation; technical presentation; color graphics; pretty pictures; scientific visualization; technical presentation; Art; Computer bugs; Computer graphics; Concurrent computing; Data visualization; Debugging; Lighting; NASA; Physics; Sequences;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Computer

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9162

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/2.299418

Filename

299418