Automated design of virtual worlds for visualizing multivariate relations
Clifford Beshers, Steven Feiner · IEEE Visualization · 1992
Interactive visualization systems provide a powerful means to explore complex data, especially when coupled with 3D interaction and display devices to produce virtual worlds. While designing a quality static 2D visualization is already a difficult task for most users, designing an interactive 3D one is even more challenging. To address this problem, we are developing Auto Visual, a research system that designs interactive virtual for visualizing and exploring multivariate relations of arbitrary arity. Auto Visual uses worlds within worlds, an interactive visualization technique that exploits nested, heterogeneous coordinate systems to map multiple variables onto each of our spatial dimensions. Auto Visual's designs are guided by user-specified visualization tasks, and by a catalog of design principles encoded using a rule-based language.