Spatially Continuous Change of Abstraction in Molecular Visualization

Wouter Lueks (1) , Ivan Viola (2) , Matthew van Der Zwan (1) , Henk Bekker (1) , Tobias Isenberg (1, 3, 4, 5)

1 Bernoulli Institute for Mathematics and Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence
2 UiB - University of Bergen
3 AVIZ - Analysis and Visualization
4 LIMSI - Laboratoire d'Informatique pour la Mécanique et les Sciences de l'Ingénieur
5 DIGITEO - RTRA DIGITEO

Based on an approach for the temporal change of abstraction in molecular visualization we describe how to achieve a spatially explicit control of abstraction. This allows us to depict different abstraction stages of a single molecule in a single still-image visualization. This approach works best for long, linear molecules with repeating substructures that allow viewers to visually compare the continuous representational changes of these parts.

Domaines: Synthèse d'image et réalité virtuelle [cs.GR]

Wouter Lueks, Ivan Viola, Matthew van Der Zwan, Henk Bekker, Tobias Isenberg. Spatially Continuous Change of Abstraction in Molecular Visualization. Abstracts of 1st IEEE Symposium on Biological Data Visualization (BioVis 2011, October 23--24, 2011, Providence, RI, USA), Oct 2011, Los Alamitos, United States. ⟨hal-00781520⟩