It is becoming increasingly challenging to efficiently visualize and extract useful insight from complex and big datasets. JavaScript stands out as a suitable programming choice that offers mature libraries, easy impl...
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It is becoming increasingly challenging to efficiently visualize and extract useful insight from complex and big datasets. JavaScript stands out as a suitable programming choice that offers mature libraries, easy implementation, and extensive customization, all of which stay in the shadow of new and rapid developments in the language. To illustrate the use of JavaScript in a scientific context, this article elaborates on Lexicon, a collection of JavaScript libraries for generating interactive visualizations in bioinformatics and other custom libraries.
Multiuser can collaboratively complete complex visualization tasks that cannot be completed by a single user. Although multiuser collaboration system has made great progress, there are many challenges in the collabora...
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Multiuser can collaboratively complete complex visualization tasks that cannot be completed by a single user. Although multiuser collaboration system has made great progress, there are many challenges in the collaborative visualization of 3D volumetric scientificdata due to the difficulties in multiuser collaboration, and collaborative slice analysis. This article proposes a client-server based collaborative visualization system, which consists of a 3D volume explorer and a 2D slice analyzer, to help domain experts to fully utilize their background domain knowledge to illustrate different parts of the data. For example, the brain surgeon expert, pulmonologist, and cardiologist can visualize and analyze the different subsets of the volumetric scientificdata, that is, the corresponding subvolumes of the brain, heart, lungs, and blood vessels. It also allows taking full advantage of the hardware resources, because all the computation intensive tasks especially for the whole data rendering can be allocated to the powerful server while the light-weight tasks can be allocated to the portable clients. Besides, we design a seed point tracing algorithm based on flood fill algorithm to illustrate the slice more efficiently. We evaluate the system by collecting the feedback from domain experts and the people who are unfamiliar with data computation or visualization. The evaluation shows that the 3D volume explorer and the 2D slice analyzer are capable of supporting peer-expert discussion and medical case teaching, respectively.
The challenge of optimal design of experiments pervades materials science, physics, chemistry, and biology. Bayesian optimization has been used to address this challenge but requires framing experimental campaigns thr...
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The challenge of optimal design of experiments pervades materials science, physics, chemistry, and biology. Bayesian optimization has been used to address this challenge but requires framing experimental campaigns through the lens of maximizing some observable. However, this framing is insufficient for epistemic research goals that seek to comprehensively analyze a sample space, without an explicit scalar objective. In this work, we propose a flexible formulation of scientific value that recasts a dataset of input conditions and higher -dimensional observable data into a continuous, scalar metric. Intuitively, the function measures where observables change significantly, emulating the perspective of experts driving an experiment. We demonstrate this as a collaborative analysis tool and objective for optimization technique using two simulated and two experimental examples. The method is flexible, easily deployed, seamlessly compatible with existing optimization tools, can be extended to multi -modal and multi -fidelity experiments, and can integrate existing models of an experimental system.
Sound field visualization aids in elucidating complicated sound propagation. Numerical simulation is one of visualization methods and incurs high computational costs. In this study, we proposed 2D sound field visualiz...
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ISBN:
(数字)9781510679931
ISBN:
(纸本)9781510679931;9781510679924
Sound field visualization aids in elucidating complicated sound propagation. Numerical simulation is one of visualization methods and incurs high computational costs. In this study, we proposed 2D sound field visualization using deep learning from the room shape. Through an experiment, the proposed method yielded high estimation accuracy for visualization in the asymmetric trapezoidal shapes of rooms.
Sound field visualization helps us understand and analyze sound propagation. To visualize the sound field in an actual room, the sound pressures at all observed points should be measured. However, the number of measur...
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ISBN:
(数字)9781510679931
ISBN:
(纸本)9781510679931;9781510679924
Sound field visualization helps us understand and analyze sound propagation. To visualize the sound field in an actual room, the sound pressures at all observed points should be measured. However, the number of measurement points significantly increases as the resolution and area of visualization are increased. Moreover, the large amount of data makes it difficult to display all the information in the 3D sound field. In this study, we propose an interactive Mixed Reality (MR) visualization system of the 3D sound field in a room. We estimate the sound field in a room using a small number of microphones based on a physical model of sound propagation and then visualize the sound field by interactively changing the visualization region by hand gesture.
ITER is an experimental tokamak device that has many collaborators from different countries and aims to produce energy from nuclear fusion inside a reactor with magnetic confinement. Corresponding scientificdata and ...
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ITER is an experimental tokamak device that has many collaborators from different countries and aims to produce energy from nuclear fusion inside a reactor with magnetic confinement. Corresponding scientificdata and structure visualization are important factors in connecting qualitative information from human intuition and quantitative content of physical-based datasets. Therefore, building an integrated platform with the interaction of scientific data visualization is inevitable for engineers and researchers in geographically distributed groups to effectively promote consistent design work, and it is also a key part in research and training processes for operators and students to better understand the ITER structure with analysis results. In this context, a digital ITER-type mock-up has been developed at the Institute of Modern Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences based on an immersive virtual reality platform that is designed using client/server hybrid heterogeneous cloud architecture with many user-friendly and flexible features. Detailed ITER-type models have been developed and optimized in low-poly style to increase rendering speed, and scientificdata in the scalar field have been represented by means of the view-dependent ray-casting method with topological texture images, which can fulfill real-time roaming and inspecting tasks for research purposes and provide an efficient and effective tool for fusion technology education at the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Contemporary virtual reality systems enable academics to more efficiently explore and analyze complex three-dimensional (3D) content, but their utility is limited by visual short-term memory. Janus, a geometry agnosti...
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Contemporary virtual reality systems enable academics to more efficiently explore and analyze complex three-dimensional (3D) content, but their utility is limited by visual short-term memory. Janus, a geometry agnostic shader script, circumvents this cognitive limitation by automatically rendering complex object meshes to fit entirely within the field-of-view of consumer head-mounted displays. The resulting 360 degrees vision experience represents an advantage over existing scientific data visualization tools, which have sought to replicate real-world viewing experiences but have inadvertently replicated associated limitations as well. By presenting data in such a way so as to effectively circumvent cognitive loads associated with body (or object) movement, academics can use the Janus shader to more readily engage in the exploratory analysis of complex 3D data sets, thereby facilitating scientific insight. This paper explores the motivations and design of the Janus shader and describes preliminary results from user testing conducted under controlled conditions. For the 24 study participants (N = 24), statistically significant time-to-completion decreases were observed for spatial analysis tasks taking place in intervention (Janus-enabled) VR scenes of low-to-moderate complexity.
Underground flow path (UFP) is one of the most significant stratigraphic structures in revealing the distribution of oil or gas from seismic data. We design a domain-specific visualization system to extract the strati...
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Underground flow path (UFP) is one of the most significant stratigraphic structures in revealing the distribution of oil or gas from seismic data. We design a domain-specific visualization system to extract the stratigraphic structures by seed point tracing and explore the seismic data by graph interactions. The seeds are automatically generated by kernel function-based density gradients computation. Users are allowed to adjust the recommended seeds by fine-tuning them with visual interactions. The seeds are further merged by a weighted quick-union algorithm to get the link information to construct a graph. Different types of nodes in the graph are designed to enable users to explore the extracted UFP structures intuitively. Finally, we evaluated the proposed approach by performance tests, sensitivity tests, and ground truth tests. The feedback from the domain experts demonstrates that the proposed visualization tool improved the capability of revealing the distribution and geostructures of UFPs compared with the existing methods.
This paper presents the system architecture of a collaborative virtual environment in which distributed multidisciplinary teams involved in space exploration activities come together and explore areas of scientific in...
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This paper presents the system architecture of a collaborative virtual environment in which distributed multidisciplinary teams involved in space exploration activities come together and explore areas of scientific interest of a planet for future missions. The aim is to reduce the current challenges of distributed scientific and engineering meetings that prevent the exploitation of their collaborative potential, as, at present, expertise, tools and datasets are fragmented. This paper investigates the functional characteristics of a software framework that addresses these challenges following the design science research methodology in the context of the space industry and research. An implementation of the proposed architecture and a validation process with end users, based on the execution of different use cases, are described. These use cases cover relevant aspects of real science analysis and operation, including planetary datavisualization, as the system aims at being used in future European missions. This validation suggests that the system has the potential to enhance the way space scientists will conduct space science research in the future.
This Special Session lightning round features 12 dynamic trailblazers from SIGGRAPH history who are continually empowered by innovation into present day explorations. These women interweave stories across time that tr...
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ISBN:
(纸本)9781450363129
This Special Session lightning round features 12 dynamic trailblazers from SIGGRAPH history who are continually empowered by innovation into present day explorations. These women interweave stories across time that transformed digital media and shaped SIGGRAPH; while at the same time these women personally benefited from the interdisciplinary graphics community.
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