Directional Texture for Visualization - New Technique and Application Study
- Resource Type
- Conference
- Authors
- Maskey, Manil; Newman, Timothy S.
- Source
- 2015 19th International Conference on Information Visualisation Information Visualisation (iV), 2015 19th International Conference on. :1-8 Jul, 2015
- Subject
- Computing and Processing
Data visualization
Meteorology
Probability density function
Image color analysis
Markov random fields
Ocean temperature
Visualization
Texture
directionality
oriented texture
weather visualization
multivariate visualization
- Language
- ISSN
- 1550-6037
2375-0138
The role of a texture's directionality (i.e., Orientedness) in multivariate visualization is explored. A key emphasis here is determining if directional textures can be an effective component in the visualization of multiple attribute data, in particular weather data. Toward that end, a new directional texture-based data visualization technique is described and exhibited. Results of user-based evaluations of directional textures in visualization are also reported.