Abstracting attribute space for transfer function exploration and design

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 94-107

  MacIejewski, Ross ^a   Jang, Yun ^b   Woo, Insoo ^c   Jänicke, Heike ^d   Gaither, Kelly P ^e   Ebert, David S ^c  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Sejong University   (South Korea)

^c PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

information theory; Transfer function design; volume rendering

Indexed keywords

ATTRIBUTE INFORMATION; AUTOMATIC EXTRACTION; INFORMATION METRICS; MULTIVARIATE DATA; SPACE VISUALIZATION; STANDARD DEVIATION; TWO-DIMENSIONAL HISTOGRAM; USER-CENTERED; VOLUMETRIC DATA;

DESIGN; GRAPHIC METHODS; INFORMATION THEORY; STATISTICAL METHODS; TWO DIMENSIONAL; VOLUME RENDERING; VOLUMETRIC ANALYSIS;

TRANSFER FUNCTIONS;

EID: 84870488183     PISSN: 10772626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVCG.2012.105     Document Type: Article

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