Interactive lens visualization techniques
Chris Shaw, James A. Hall, David S. Ebert, D.A. Roberts · 1999
This paper describes new techniques for minimally immersive visualization of 3D scalar and vector fields, and visualization of document corpora. In our glyph-based visualization system, the user interacts with the 3D volume of glyphs using a pair of buttonenhanced 3D position and orientation trackers. The user may also examine the volume using an interactive lens, which is a rectangle that slices through the 3D volumeand displaysscalar information on its surface. A lens allows the display of scalar data in the 3D volume using a contour diagram, and a texture-based volume rendering. Keywords: Volumetric Data, Glyphs, Two-Handed Interfaces, Interactive Volume Rendering, Contour Diagrams, Stereoscopic Field Analyzer SFA, Seed Fill, Over Blending 1