Interactivity is the key to expressive visualization
Eric B. Lum, Kwan‐Liu Ma · ACM SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics · 2002
Scientific visualization is widely used for gaining insight into phenomena through data exploration and creating imagery that can be used to i l lustrate these phenomena to others. Interactive rendering has long been valued in visualization as a means of facili-tating more effective exploration. More recently, non-photorealistic rendering (NPR) has been applied to scientific visualization, which consists of using artistically inspired techniques for the creation of more expres-sive visualizations [3, 4, 5]. In many cases, NPR has been shown to be more effective than photorealistic rendering in communicating subtle information about