AniViz: A Template-Based Animation Tool for Volume Visualization

Interactive visualization is the key to insightful exploration. Animation can effectively convey a complex process or structure. Deriving a sequence of desired keyframes is a painstaking process entailing much trial and error. To help alleviate this problem, we developed AniViz-a tool for making visualization animations of time-varying, multivariate volume data. AniViz is an animation tool following two principles. First, it´s desirable to directly turn the results of data exploration and visualization into animation content. Second, users can create a complex animation sequence by combining several simple effects. Such effects, and operators to combine them, are fine-tuned via an intuitive user interface.