Towards Topology-Rich Visualization/Analysis Attila Gyulassy SCI Institute, University of Utah Co-laborers: Peer-Timo Bremer, Valerio Pascucci
Why topology-based analysis? Experts think: Topology-based analysis is good! Structural multi-resolution representation of a function Combinatorial algorithms for its computation Extracting features = querying structure
Why topology-based analysis? Josh is ugly!!
The Morse-Smale Complex
Topology simplification
Idealized Topological Analysis Pipeline Compute topology representation Data acquisition Filtering/ simplification Final analysis
Closing the loop What am I looking for? Hypothesis of feature definition
Closing the loop What am I looking for? Hypothesis of feature definition
Basis for Feature Space
Intrinsic Features (1) Critical Points
Intrinsic Features (2) Arcs
Intrinsic Features (3) Basins/Mountains
Intrinsic Features (4) Separatrices
Feature Visualization Critical points / Arcs Spheres/Tubes where color/radius can be specified 2-Manifolds Locally rescaled transfer functions 3-Manifolds Segment space, local transfer functions possible
MSC DS & Queries
Examples