Effective Techniques to Visualize Filament-Surface Relationships

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dc.contributor.authorKuß, Anjaen_US
dc.contributor.authorGensel, Mariaen_US
dc.contributor.authorMeyer, Björnen_US
dc.contributor.authorDercksen, Vincent J.en_US
dc.contributor.authorProhaska, Steffenen_US
dc.contributor.editorG. Melancon, T. Munzner, and D. Weiskopfen_US
dc.date.accessioned2014-02-21T20:06:06Z
dc.date.available2014-02-21T20:06:06Z
dc.date.issued2010en_US
dc.description.abstractCombined visualizations of filamentous structures and surrounding volumetric objects are common in biological and medical applications. Often, the structures spatial relationships remain unclear to the viewer. In this paper, we discuss and evaluate techniques to emphasize spatial relationships. We concentrate on the visualization of transparent objects and intersecting lines. Among various techniques, participants of an exploratory user study preferred coloring of lines, marking of line-surface intersections by glyphs, and the combination of both. These techniques were additionally evaluated in a confirmatory study in which participants were asked to judge whether a filament runs through a transparent structure. We found that the evaluated techniques significantly improve the participants performance in terms of the number of correct responses and response time. The best performance was found for the combination of line coloring and intersection glyph display.en_US
dc.description.number3en_US
dc.description.seriesinformationComputer Graphics Forumen_US
dc.description.volume29en_US
dc.identifier.issn1467-8659en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8659.2009.01703.xen_US
dc.publisherThe Eurographics Association and Blackwell Publishing Ltd.en_US
dc.titleEffective Techniques to Visualize Filament-Surface Relationshipsen_US
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