Focus and context for volume visualization

Scientific investigation and simulation have been producing increasingly large datasets. Usually that kind of data is visualized employing some scientific visualization technique. Another related field, information visualization, deals with nonscientific large scale data, using different approaches to achieve an effective understanding. Our aim is to bring these two fields together, proposing a taxonomy for volume visualization, employing information visualization techniques, particularly the focus and context idea. A prototype is being developed, which aims to implement and evaluate a number of solutions for this problem, identifying through demonstration which applications would benefit most from focus+context approaches. We describe work in progress