Illustrative Timelapse: A Technique for Illustrative Visualization of Particle Simulations on the Mesoscale Level

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• Publication Type: Conference Paper
• Workgroup(s)/Project(s):
  • Visual Computing: Illustrative Visualization
• Date: April 2015
• Publisher: IEEE
• Organization: 8th IEEE Pacific Visualization Symposium (PacificVis 2015)
• Location: Zijingang Campus, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
• Lecturer: Mathieu Le Muzic
• Booktitle: Visualization Symposium (PacificVis), 2015 IEEE Pacific
• Conference date: 14. April 2015 – 17. April 2015
• Pages: 247 – 254

Abstract

Animated movies are a popular way to communicate complex phenomena in cell biology to the broad audience. Animation artists apply sophisticated illustration techniques to communicate a story, while trying to maintain a realistic representation of a complex dynamic environment. Since such hand-crafted animations are timeconsuming and cost-intensive to create, our goal is to formalize illustration 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) visual abstraction of molecular trajectories to ensure that observers are able to visually follow the main actors, (3) increased visual focus on events of interest, and (4) lens effects to preserve a realistic representation of the environment in the context. Results from a first user study indicate that visual abstraction of trajectories improves the ability to follow a story and is also appreciated by users. Lens effects increased the perceived amount of molecular motion in the environment while trading off traceability of individual molecules.

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@inproceedings{lemuzic_2015_timelapse,
  title =      "Illustrative Timelapse: A Technique for Illustrative
               Visualization of Particle Simulations on the Mesoscale Level",
  author =     "Mathieu Le Muzic and Manuela Waldner and Julius Parulek and
               Ivan Viola",
  year =       "2015",
  abstract =   "Animated movies are a popular way to communicate complex
               phenomena in cell biology to the broad audience. Animation
               artists apply sophisticated illustration techniques to
               communicate a story, while trying to maintain a realistic
               representation of a complex dynamic environment. Since such
               hand-crafted animations are timeconsuming and cost-intensive
               to create, our goal is to formalize illustration 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)
               visual abstraction of molecular trajectories to ensure that
               observers are able to visually follow the main actors, (3)
               increased visual focus on events of interest, and (4) lens
               effects to preserve a realistic representation of the
               environment in the context. Results from a first user study
               indicate that visual abstraction of trajectories improves
               the ability to follow a story and is also appreciated by
               users. Lens effects increased the perceived amount of
               molecular motion in the environment while trading off
               traceability of individual molecules.",
  month =      apr,
  publisher =  "IEEE",
  organization = "8th IEEE Pacific Visualization Symposium (PacificVis 2015)",
  location =   "Zijingang Campus, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China",
  booktitle =  "Visualization Symposium (PacificVis), 2015 IEEE Pacific",
  pages =      "247--254",
  URL =        "https://www.cg.tuwien.ac.at/research/publications/2015/lemuzic_2015_timelapse/",
}