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What May Visualization Processes Optimize?
In this paper, we present an abstract model of visualization and inference
processes and describe an information-theoretic measure for optimizing such
processes. In order to obtain such an abstraction, we first examined six
classes of workflows in data analysis and visualization, and identified four
levels of typical visualization components, namely disseminative,
observational, analytical and model-developmental visualization. We noticed a
common phenomenon at different levels of visualization, that is, the
transformation of data spaces (referred to as alphabets) usually corresponds to
the reduction of maximal entropy along a workflow. Based on this observation,
we establish an information-theoretic measure of cost-benefit ratio that may be
used as a cost function for optimizing a data visualization process. To
demonstrate the validity of this measure, we examined a number of successful
visualization processes in the literature, and showed that the
information-theoretic measure can mathematically explain the advantages of such
processes over possible alternatives.Comment: 10 page
Three-dimensional Radial Visualization of High-dimensional Datasets with Mixed Features
We develop methodology for 3D radial visualization (RadViz) of
high-dimensional datasets. Our display engine is called RadViz3D and extends
the classical 2D RadViz that visualizes multivariate data in the 2D plane by
mapping every record to a point inside the unit circle. We show that
distributing anchor points at least approximately uniformly on the 3D unit
sphere provides a better visualization with minimal artificial visual
correlation for data with uncorrelated variables. Our RadViz3D methodology
therefore places equi-spaced anchor points, one for every feature, exactly for
the five Platonic solids, and approximately via a Fibonacci grid for the other
cases. Our Max-Ratio Projection (MRP) method then utilizes the group
information in high dimensions to provide distinctive lower-dimensional
projections that are then displayed using Radviz3D. Our methodology is extended
to datasets with discrete and continuous features where a Gaussianized
distributional transform is used in conjunction with copula models before
applying MRP and visualizing the result using RadViz3D. A R package radviz3d
implementing our complete methodology is available.Comment: 12 pages, 10 figures, 1 tabl
Mode transition of plasma expansion for laser induced breakdown in Air
High-speed shadowgraph visualization experiments conducted using a 10 J pulse transversely excited atmospheric (TEA) CO2 laser in ambient air provided a state transition from overdriven to Chapman–Jouguet in the laser-supported detonation regime. At the state transition, the propagation velocity of the laser-supported detonation wave and the threshold laser intensity were 10 km/s and 1011 W/m2, respectively. State transition information, such as the photoionization caused by plasma UV radiation, of the avalanche ionization ahead of the ionization wave front can be elucidated from examination of the source seed electrons
Simulation of fluid flows during growth of organic crystals in microgravity
Several counter diffusion type crystal growth experiments were conducted in space. Improvements in crystal size and quality are attributed to reduced natural convection in the microgravity environment. One series of experiments called DMOS (Diffusive Mixing of Organic Solutions) was designed and conducted by researchers at the 3M Corporation and flown by NASA on the space shuttle. Since only limited information about the mixing process is available from the space experiments, a series of ground based experiments was conducted to further investigate the fluid dynamics within the DMOS crystal growth cell. Solutions with density differences in the range of 10 to the -7 to 10 to the -4 power g/cc were used to simulate microgravity conditions. The small density differences were obtained by mixing D2O and H2O. Methylene blue dye was used to enhance flow visualization. The extent of mixing was measured photometrically using the 662 nm absorbance peak of the dye. Results indicate that extensive mixing by natural convection can occur even under microgravity conditions. This is qualitatively consistent with results of a simple scaling analysis. Quantitave results are in close agreement with ongoing computational modeling analysis
Top 10 unsolved information visualization problems
IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, 25 (4). 12-16. Retrieved 6/21/2006 from http://www.pages.drexel.edu/~cc345/papers/cga2005.pdf.Athought-provoking panel, organized by Theresa-
Marie Rhyne, at IEEE Visualization 2004
addressed the top unsolved problems of visualization.1
Two of the invited panelists, Bill Hibbard and Chris
Johnson, addressed scientific visualization problems.
Steve Eick and I identified information visualization
problems. The following top 10 unsolved problems list
is a revised and extended version of the information
visualization problems I outlined on the panel. These
problems are not necessarily imposed by technical barriers;
rather, they are problems that might hinder the
growth of information visualization as a field. The first
three problems highlight issues from a user-centered
perspective. The fifth, sixth, and seventh problems are
technical challenges in nature. The last three are the
ones that need tackling at the disciplinary level
Environmental Flow Regimes for Dysidea avara Sponges
The aim of our research is to design tank systems to culture Dysidea avara for the production of avarol. Flow information was needed to design culture tanks suitable for effective production. Water flow regimes were characterized over a 1-year period for a shallow rocky sublittoral environment in the Northwestern Mediterranean where D. avara sponges are particularly abundant. Three-dimensional Doppler current velocities at 8¿10-m depths ranged from 5 to 15 cm/s over most seasons, occasionally spiking to 30¿66 cm/s. A thermistor flow sensor was used to map flow fields in close proximity (¿2 cm) to individual sponges at 4.5-, 8.8-, and 14.3-m depths. These ¿proximal flows¿ averaged 1.6 cm/s in calm seas and 5.9 cm/s during a storm, when the highest proximal flow (32.9 cm/s) was recorded next to a sponge at the shallowest station. Proximal flows diminished exponentially with depth, averaging 2.6 cm/s¿±¿0.15 SE over the entire study. Flow visualization studies showed that oscillatory flow (0.20¿0.33 Hz) was the most common regime around individual sponges. Sponges at the 4.5-m site maintained a compact morphology with large oscula year-around despite only seasonally high flows. Sponges at 8.8 m were more erect with large oscula on tall protuberances. At the lowest-flow 14.3-m site, sponges were more branched and heavily conulated, with small oscula. The relationship between sponge morphology and ambient flow regime is discussed
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