The aim of our research is to provide an application framework for end-users, who do not have enough programming skills, to dynamically generate applications using interactive, coordinated, multiple 3D visualization techniques. In our framework, each 3D application for visualization is constructed by users themselves or already exists, and consists of sets of interactive 3D components. Users can embed such 3D applications into cells on Excel, and define the coordination between them. To define coordination, we provide interactive 2D/3D components and coordination rules that enable users to use operations for coordination such as brushing and linking, retrieving related or detailed information one after another, synchronizing viewpoints between 3D visualizations, and sharing table values between 3D components for visualizations and cells on Excel.
The following movie shows that how to construct 3D CMV application using Amazon Web services.
■Comparison
The following snapshot and movie shows an example of visualizing 3D structures of protein or DNA using multiple data-sets, visual representations and angles to compare multiple 3D visualizations with various parameters.
■Navigation
The following snapshot and movie shows an example of visualizing cancer mortality of each prefecture and of each organ.
■References
- Masahiko Itoh and Yuzuru Tanaka, A Framework for Constructing Coordinated Multiple 3D Visualizations on Excel, In Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Information Visualization (IV09), pp. 162-170, IEEE, Jul. 2009, (paper)
- Masahiko Itoh, Jun Fujima, Makoto Ohigashi, and Yuzuru Tanaka, Spreadsheet-based Framework for Interactive 3D Visualization of Web Resources, In Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Information Visualization (IV07), pp. 65-73, IEEE, Jul. 2007,(paper, acceptance ratio = 57%)
- Masahiko Itoh, Jun Fujima, and Yuzuru Tanaka, Clipping and Visualizing Tabular Data from Web Pages on Spreadsheet, GCOE Workshop on Knowledge Federation and Knowledge Discovery, 2009 (workshop is oral only. paper is not published.)
