“Visually representing multi-valued scientific data using concepts from painting”

  • ©David H. Laidlaw, David Kremers, Eric T. Ahrens, and Matthew J. Avalos

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    Visually representing multi-valued scientific data using concepts from painting

Session/Category Title:   Colliding, Caving & Coloring


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    Layers of varying brush strokes are used to visually represent 2D images of multi-valued scientific data. Example visualizations display up to eight values simultaneously so that they can be understood in context.

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