Illustrative Timelapse: A technique for illustrative visualization of particle-based simulations
Abstract
Animated movies are a popular way to communicate complex phenomena in cell biology to the broadaudience. Animation artists apply sophisticated illustration techniques to communicate a story, while trying to maintain a realistic representation of a complex dynamic environment. Since suchhand-crafted animations are time-consuming and cost-intensive to create, our goal is to formalizeillustration techniques used by artists to facilitate the automatic creation of visualizations generated from mesoscale particle-based molecular simulations. Our technique Illustrative Timelapse supports visual exploration of complex biochemical processes in dynamic environments by(1) seamless temporal zooming to observe phenomena in different temporal resolutions, (2) visualabstraction of molecular trajectories to ensure that observers are able to visually follow themain actors, (3) increased visual focus on events of interest, and (4) lens effects to preserve arealistic representation of the environment in the context. Results from a first user studyindicate that visual abstraction of trajectories improves the ability to follow a story and isalso appreciated by users. Lens effects increased the perceived amount of molecular motion in theenvironment while trading off traceability of individual molecules.
M. Le Muzic, M. Waldner, J. Parulek, and I. Viola, "Illustrative Timelapse: A technique for illustrative visualization of particle-based simulations," in Visualization Symposium (PacificVis), 2015 IEEE Pacific, 2015, pp. 247-254. doi:10.1109/PACIFICVIS.2015.7156384
[BibTeX]
Animated movies are a popular way to communicate complex phenomena in cell biology to the broadaudience. Animation artists apply sophisticated illustration techniques to communicate a story, while trying to maintain a realistic representation of a complex dynamic environment. Since suchhand-crafted animations are time-consuming and cost-intensive to create, our goal is to formalizeillustration techniques used by artists to facilitate the automatic creation of visualizations generated from mesoscale particle-based molecular simulations. Our technique Illustrative Timelapse supports visual exploration of complex biochemical processes in dynamic environments by(1) seamless temporal zooming to observe phenomena in different temporal resolutions, (2) visualabstraction of molecular trajectories to ensure that observers are able to visually follow themain actors, (3) increased visual focus on events of interest, and (4) lens effects to preserve arealistic representation of the environment in the context. Results from a first user studyindicate that visual abstraction of trajectories improves the ability to follow a story and isalso appreciated by users. Lens effects increased the perceived amount of molecular motion in theenvironment while trading off traceability of individual molecules.
@INPROCEEDINGS {7156384,
author = "Le Muzic, Mathieu and Waldner, Manuela and Parulek, Julius and Viola, Ivan",
title = "Illustrative Timelapse: A technique for illustrative visualization of particle-based simulations",
booktitle = "Visualization Symposium (PacificVis), 2015 IEEE Pacific",
year = "2015",
pages = "247-254",
month = "April",
abstract = "Animated movies are a popular way to communicate complex phenomena in cell biology to the broadaudience. Animation artists apply sophisticated illustration techniques to communicate a story, while trying to maintain a realistic representation of a complex dynamic environment. Since suchhand-crafted animations are time-consuming and cost-intensive to create, our goal is to formalizeillustration techniques used by artists to facilitate the automatic creation of visualizations generated from mesoscale particle-based molecular simulations. Our technique Illustrative Timelapse supports visual exploration of complex biochemical processes in dynamic environments by(1) seamless temporal zooming to observe phenomena in different temporal resolutions, (2) visualabstraction of molecular trajectories to ensure that observers are able to visually follow themain actors, (3) increased visual focus on events of interest, and (4) lens effects to preserve arealistic representation of the environment in the context. Results from a first user studyindicate that visual abstraction of trajectories improves the ability to follow a story and isalso appreciated by users. Lens effects increased the perceived amount of molecular motion in theenvironment while trading off traceability of individual molecules.",
images = "images/illustrative_timelapse.png",
thumbnails = "images/illustrative_timelapse.png",
proceedings = "Proceedings of IEEE Pacific Visualization",
keywords = "Biological system modeling;Data models;Data visualization;Lenses;Trajectory;Videos;Visualization;I.3.7[COMPUTER GRAPHICS]: Three-Dimensional Graphics and Realismââ¬âAnimation;I.6.3 [SIMULATION AND MODELING]: Applicationsââ¬â",
doi = "10.1109/PACIFICVIS.2015.7156384",
project = "physioillustration"
}