GVU Technical Report Number:
GIT-GVU-93-26
Title:
Glyphmaker: An Interactive, Programmerless Approach for Customizing,
Exploring, and Analyzing Visual Data Representations
Authors:
William Ribarsky
Jack Tumblin
Gregory Newton
Robert Nowicki
Jeffrey Vetter
Abstract:
Glyphmaker is an interactive system for data visualization and analysis
that is built in a dataflow environment. Glyphmaker provides a quite
general platform for user-defined visualizations, one that can be
extended in many ways and that, in particular, offers the first stage for
an integrated visualization/analysis system. It is well-suited for the
exploration and analysis of multivariate, highly correlated 3D data,
which is increasingly the form of modern data. This is both because of
the glyph-based visual representations and the interactivity that are
built into the system. To summarize its capabilities, Glyphmaker allows
the user to: (a) design glyphs by assembling them from different shapes;
(b) choose binding sites on these shapes; (c) bind user data attributes
to glyph elements; (d) conditionally isolate certain variable ranges; (e)
interactively view, explore, remove, or rebind the resulting glyph sets
as solid 3D objects. Each of these capabilities has a graphical user
interface and is built into Glyphmaker in a modular form. The Glyphmaker
approach of arranging data into data objects that are then bound to 3D
graphical objects (glyphs) or manipulated by interactive tools is quite
extensible in terms of visual representations and analysis methods.
Keywords:
Glyphs, scientific and engineering visualization, information
visualization, interactive systems, multivariate analysis, graphical user
interfaces, dynamic mapping of variables
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