A Survey of Designs for Combined 2D+3D Visual Representations

Description:

 

We examine visual representations of data that make use of combinations of both 2D and 3D data mappings. Combining 2D and 3D representations is a common technique that allows viewers to understand multiple facets of the data with which they are interacting. While 3D representations focus on the spatial character of the data or the dedicated 3D data mapping, 2D representations often show abstract data properties and take advantage of the unique benefits of mapping to a plane. Many systems have used unique combinations of both types of data mappings effectively. Yet there are no systematic reviews of the methods in linking 2D and 3D representations. We systematically survey the relationships between 2D and 3D visual representations in major visualization publications—IEEE VIS, IEEE TVCG, and EuroVis—from 2012 to 2022. We closely examined 105 papers where 2D and 3D representations are connected visually, interactively, or through animation. These approaches are designed based on their visual environment, the relationships between their visual representations, and their possible layouts. Through our analysis, we introduce a design space as well as provide design guidelines for effectively linking 2D and 3D visual representations.

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Images and data:

Our own images and our data can be found in the following OSF repository: osf.io/rhygf.

 

Software:

The code of the tool that allows one to explore the various approaches is available at github.com/2dplus3d/2dplus3d.github.io.

Pictures:

(these images from the paper are available under a CC-BY 4.0 license, see the license statement at the end of the paper)

Poster presented at IEEE VIS on the initial version of the design space:

Main Reference:

Jiayi Hong, Rostyslav Hnatyshyn, Ebrar A. D. Santos, Ross Maciejewski, and Tobias Isenberg (2024) A Survey of Designs for Combined 2D+3D Visual Representations. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 30(6):2888–2902, June 2024.
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BibTeX entry:



@ARTICLE{Hong:2024:SDC,
  author      = {Jiayi Hong and Rostyslav Hnatyshyn and Ebrar A. D. Santos and Ross Maciejewski and Tobias Isenberg},
  title       = {A Survey of Designs for Combined {2D}+{3D} Visual Representations},
  journal     = {IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics},
  year        = {2024},
  volume      = {30},
  number      = {6},
  month       = jun,
  pages       = {2888--2902},
  doi         = {10.1109/TVCG.2024.3388516},
  doi_url     = {https://doi.org/10.1109/TVCG.2024.3388516},
  oa_hal_url  = {https://hal.science/hal-04382271},
  preprint    = {https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2401.05438},
  osf_url     = {https://osf.io/rhygf/},
  github_url  = {https://github.com/2dplus3d/2dplus3d.github.io},
  url         = {https://tobias.isenberg.cc/p/Hong2024SDC},
  pdf         = {https://tobias.isenberg.cc/personal/papers/Hong_2024_SDC.pdf},
}

Other Reference:

Ebrar A. D. Santos, Jiayi Hong, and Tobias Isenberg (2022) A Design Space for Linked 2D and 3D Visual Representations. In Jessica Hullman, Barbora Kozlíková, Vijay Natarajan, and Adam Perer, eds., Posters at the IEEE Conference on Visualization (IEEE VIS, October 16–21, Oklahoma City, USA). 2022. Extended abstract and poster.
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BibTeX entry:



@INPROCEEDINGS{Santos:2022:DSL,
  author      = {Ebrar A. D. Santos and Jiayi Hong and Tobias Isenberg},
  title       = {A Design Space for Linked 2D and 3D Visual Representations},
  booktitle   = {Posters at the IEEE Conference on Visualization (IEEE VIS, October 16--21, Oklahoma City, USA)},
  OPTeditor   = {Jessica Hullman and Barbora Kozl{\'i}kov{\'a} and Vijay Natarajan and Adam Perer},
  year        = {2022},
  oa_hal_url  = {https://hal.science/hal-03763560},
  url         = {https://tobias.isenberg.cc/p/Hong2024SDC},
  pdf         = {https://tobias.isenberg.cc/personal/papers/Santos_2022_DSL.pdf},
}

This work was done at the AVIZ project group of Inria, France.

This work was supported through the Naviscope project, funded by Inria, France.