The VIS-5D system for easy interactive visualization

Author

Hibbard, Bill ; Santek, Dave

Author_Institution

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

fYear

1990

fDate

23-26 Oct 1990

Firstpage

28

Abstract

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 and fast visual response which allows scientists to interactively explore their data sets. VIS-5D generates literal and intuitive depictions of data, has user controls that are data oriented rather than graphics oriented, and provides a WYSIWYG (what-you-see-is-what-you-get) response. The result is a system that enables scientists to produce and direct their own animations

Keywords

computer animation; flow visualisation; graphical user interfaces; ST-2000 workstations; Stardent ST-1000; VIS-5D system; WYSIWYG; animated three-dimensional graphics; fast visual response; five-dimensional data sets; interactive visualization; intuitive depictions; literal depictions; widget-based user interface; Animation; Atmospheric modeling; Data visualization; Earth; Graphics; Hydrology; Land surface temperature; Ocean temperature; Software tools; Workstations;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Visualization, 1990. Visualization '90., Proceedings of the First IEEE Conference on

Conference_Location

San Francisco, CA

Print_ISBN

0-8186-2083-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/VISUAL.1990.146361

Filename

146361