Author :
Alpern, Bowen ; Carter, Larry
Author_Institution :
IBM Thomas J. Watson Res. Center, Yorktown Heights, NY, USA
Abstract :
A hyperbox is a two-dimensional depiction of an N-dimensional box (rectangular parallelepiped). The authors define the visual syntax of hyperboxes, state some properties, and sketch two applications. Hyperboxes can be evocative visual names for tensors or multidimensional arrays in visual programming languages. They can also be used to simultaneously display all pairwise relationships in an N-dimensional dataset. This can be helpful in choosing a sequence of dimension-reducing transformations that preserve interesting properties of the dataset
Keywords :
computer graphics; visual programming; N-dimensional box; N-dimensional dataset; dimension-reducing transformations; hyperbox; multidimensional arrays; pairwise relationships; rectangular parallelepiped; tensors; two-dimensional depiction; visual programming languages; visual syntax; Data visualization; Displays; Multidimensional systems; Tensile stress;
Conference_Titel :
Visualization, 1991. Visualization '91, Proceedings., IEEE Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Diego, CA
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-2245-8
DOI :
10.1109/VISUAL.1991.175790
