AniViz: A template-based animation tool for volume visualization
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
9-3-2010
Abstract
The AniViz tool for making visualization animations is based on two principles. First, it's desirable to directly turn the results of data exploration and visualization into animation content. Second, users can create a complex animation sequence by blending several simple effects. AniViz provides a set of motion templates; users create desirable effects as instances of those templates. It also provides a set of operators to edit an instance or combine multiple instances into a sequence of effects. Users can fine-tune parameters associated with an instance or a sequence in a keyframe style. Users can specify the length of each segment in the animation, or AniViz can automatically allocate the length on the basis of a distance metric. AniViz offers these functionalities through a simple, easy-to-use interface. The Web extra is a video that shows the author's animation tool, AniViz. © 2010 IEEE.
Publication Title
IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications
Recommended Citation
Akiba, H.,
Wang, C.,
&
Ma, K.
(2010).
AniViz: A template-based animation tool for volume visualization.
IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications,
30(5), 61-71.
http://doi.org/10.1109/MCG.2009.107
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