A lattice model for data display

Author

Hibbard, William L. ; Dyer, Charles R. ; Paul, Brian E.

Author_Institution

Space Sci. & Eng. Center, Wisconsin Univ., Madison, WI, USA

fYear

1994

fDate

17-21 Oct 1994

Firstpage

310

Lastpage

317

Abstract

In order to develop a foundation for visualization, we develop lattice models for data objects and displays that focus on the fact that data objects are approximations to mathematical objects and real displays are approximations to ideal displays. These lattice models give us a way to quantize the information content of data and displays and to define conditions on the visualization mappings from data to displays. Mappings satisfy these conditions if and only if they are lattice isomorphisms. We show how to apply this result to scientific data and display models, and discuss how it might be applied to recursively defined data types appropriate for complex information processing

Keywords

data visualisation; complex information processing; data display; data objects; data visualization; lattice isomorphisms; lattice model; mathematical objects; real displays; scientific data; Computer displays; Data engineering; Data models; Data visualization; Information processing; Lattices; Mathematical model; Object oriented modeling; Pipelines; Pixel;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Visualization, 1994., Visualization '94, Proceedings., IEEE Conference on

Conference_Location

Washington, DC

Print_ISBN

0-8186-6627-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/VISUAL.1994.346304

Filename

346304