Data Visualisation 2002

This book contains the papers presented at VisSym´02, the fourth joint Visualisation Symposium organized by the Eurographics Association and the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Visualization and Graphics (TCVG), which took place from May 27 to May 29, 2002, in Barcelona, Spain.

Contents

• Parallel and Out-of-Core View-depended Isocontour Visualization (X. Zhang, C. Bajaj, V. Ramachandran)
• Statistical Computation of Salient Iso-Values (S. Tenginakai, R. Machiraju)
• Interactive Visualization and Steering of CFD Simulation (O. Kreylos, A. M. Tesdall, B. Hamann, J. K. Hunter, K. I. Joy)
• Adding a Scalar Value to Texture-Based Vector Field Representations by Local Constrast Analysis (A. Sanna, C. Zunino, B. Montrucchio, P. Montuschi)
• AUFLIC: An Accelerated Algorithm for Unsteady Flow Line Integral Convolution (Z. P. Liu, R. J. Moorhead II)
• Octreemizer: A Hierarchical Approach for Interactive Roaming Through Very Large Volumes (J. Plate, M. Tirtasana, R. Carmona, B. Frohlich)
• Comparison of Morphological Pyramids for Multiresolution MIP Volume Rendering (J.B.T.M. Roerdink)
• Interactive Previewing for Transfer Function Specification in Volume Rendering (C. P. Botha, F. H. Post)
• Cell-based First-hit Ray Casting (A. Neubauer, L. Mroz, H. Hauser, R. Wegenkittl)
• A Generic Solution for Hardware-Accelerated remote Visualization (S. Stegmaier, M. Magallon, T. Ertl)
• Shear-Warp Deluxe: The Shear-Warp Algorithm Revisited (J. Sweeney, K. Mueller)
• Feature-Preserving Volume Filtering (L. Neumann, B. Csebfalvi, I. Viola, M. Mlejnek, E. Groeller)
• Direct Photographic Volume Rendering using Multi-Dimensional Color-Based Transfer Functions (C. J. Morris, D. Ebert)
• View-Dependent Multiresolution Splatting of Non-Uniform Data (J. Jang, C. Shaw, W. Ribarsky, N. Faust)
• Best Quadric Spline Approximation for Hierarchical Visualization (D. F. Wiley, H. R. Childs, B. Hammann, K. I. Joy, N. L. Max)
• Bag-of-particles as a Deformable Model (D. J. Stahl, N. F. Ezquerra, G. Turk)
• A Continuous Skeletonization Method based on Level Sets (M. Rumpf, A. Telea)
• Visualization of Bibliographic Networks with a Reshaped Landscape Metaphor (U. Brandes, T. Willhal)
• Secondary Task Display Attributes: Optimizing Visualizations for Cognitive Task Suitability and Interference Avoidance (C. M. Chewar, D. S. McCrickard, A. Ndiwalana, C. North, J. Pryor, D. Tessendorf)
• Visualizing and Investigating Multidimensional Functions (S.R. dos Santos, K. W. Brodlie)
• Viewpoint Entropy: A new Tool for Obtaining Good Views of Molecules (P.-P. Vazquez, M. Feixas, M. Sbert, A. Llobet)
• Volume Rendering Multivariate Data to Visualize Meteorological Simulations: A Case Study (J. Kniss, C. Hansen, M. Greiner, T. Robinson)
• Speech and gesture Multimodal Control of a Whole Earth 3D Visualization Environment (D. M. Krum, O. Omoteso, W. Ribarsky, T. Starner, L. F. Hodges)
• Visualization of Large Web Access Data Sets (M. C. Hao, D. Cotting, P. Garg, U. Dayal, V. Machiraju)
• Useful Properties of semantic Depth of Field for Better F+C Visualization (R. Kosara, S. Miksch, H. Hauser, J. Schrammel, V. Giller, M. Tscheligi)
• An Evaluation of Information Visualization in Attention-Limited Environments (J. Somervell, D. S. McCrickard, C. North, M. Shukla)
• A Novel Approach to Vertex Core Region Detection (M. Jiang, R. Machiraju, D. Thompson)
• Locating Closed Streamlines in 3D Vector Fields (T. Wischgoll, G. Scheuermann)
• Vortex Traking in Scale-Space (D. Bauer, R. Peikert)
• An Open Toolkit for Prototyping Reverse Engineering Visualization (A. Telea, A. Maccari, C. Riva)
• An Augmented Fast Marching Method for Computing Skeletons and Centerlines (A. Telea, J.J. van Wijk)