Advanced Scientific Visualization Guilford County SciVis V202.04

What is Advanced SciVis? Scientific visualization, sometimes referred to in shorthand as SciVis, is the representation of data graphically and/or visually as a means of gaining understanding and insight into the data. SciVis allows the researcher to gain insight in ways previously impossible.

Examples of SciVis  Engineering  Animations or Simulations  Medical Imaging  Meteorology  Hydrology  Finance

What is Informational Visualization?  Informational visualization is the use of interactive graphics to display, measure, and understand large amounts of data.

Examples of informational Vis.  Molecular models  CAD models  Medical imagery

Organizing Informational Vis.  Tree or hierarchical -- data has a unique parent and 1 or more siblings. Examples include classification systems, and parent child relationships.Examples  Task Gallery – a way that employs 3D space to organize data. The space is that of multiple rooms in which documents are ‘hung’ on walls until they are needed.

Different Examples of SPIRE  Galaxy Visualization -- the image of stars in the night sky to represent a set of documents.  Theme View -- the topics or themes within a set of documents are shown as a relief map of natural terrain. The mountains in the Theme View indicate dominant themes. The height of the peaks indicates the relative strengths of the topics in the document set.

Different Examples of SPIRE  Theme River -- helps users identify time-related patterns, trends, and relationships across a large collection of documents. The themes in the collection are represented by a "river" that flows left to right through time.  Fractal Projections -- Information is organized and viewed as fractal spaces.

Different Examples of SPIRE Catch -- Computer Aided Tracking and Characterization of Homicides is a collection of tools that assist the crime analyst in the investigation process.