GVU Technical Report Number:
GIT-GVU-93-25
Title:
Using Glyphmaker to Create Customized Visualizations of Complex Data
Authors:
William Ribarsky
Eric Ayers
Sougata Mukherjea
Abstract:
Glyphmaker is a general approach to data visualization/analysis that
allows users to easily build customized representations of multivariate
data and then gives them interactive tools to explore the patterns in and
relations between the data. It is built in a standard dataflow
environment so that it can take advantage of the features and flexibility
of dataflow visualization systems. The main part of Glyphmaker are the
Data Reader, the 3D Glyph Editor, and the Glyph Binder. To test its
capabilities and effectiveness, Glyphmaker is applied to analyze the
results from a typically large scale computer simulation of a materials
system. Glyphmaker is shown to be a general and quite effective approach
for visualizing and analyzing multivariate, 3D data, especially data that
evolves in time. It provides non-expert users with a quick and easy way
to set up visualizations of complex data and then to refine the
visualization, add to the set of variables depicted, and focus on regions
of interest.
Keywords:
Glyphs, scientific and engineering visualization, interactive systems,
multivariate analysis, graphical user interfaces, dynamic mapping of
variables
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