Illustrative Molecular Visualization with Continuous Abstraction

Best Abstract Award at BioVis 2011 for the poster abstract that extends the basic technique

 
 
 

Description:

Molecular systems may be visualized with various degrees of structural abstraction, support of spatial perception, and ‘illustrativeness.’ In this work we propose and realize methods to create seamless transformations that allow us to affect and change each of these three parameters individually. The resulting transitions give viewers a dedicated control of abstraction in illustrative molecular visualization and, consequently, allow them to seamlessly explore the resulting abstraction space for obtaining a fundamental understanding of molecular systems.We show example visualizations created with our approach and report informal feedback on our technique from domain experts.

Paper download:  (7.6 MB)

Poster abstract:  (4.8 MB)

Demo:

You can download a demo of the illustrative molecular visualization technique (for Win32, 32bit Linux, and 64bit Linux, 2.6MB). To be able to run the demo an nVidia graphics card is required that is capable of geometry shaders. For example, a GeForce 8800 or better should work.

Video:

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Poster presented at BioVis 2011 (received the Best Abstract Award):

Fast-Forward at BioVis 2011:

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Additional material:

Cross-Reference:

We also developed a related technique for abstracting several levels of nested flow visualizations, see the page about this illustrative rendering technique as well.

Main Reference:

Matthew van der Zwan, Wouter Lueks, Henk Bekker, and Tobias Isenberg (2011) Illustrative Molecular Visualization with Continuous Abstraction. Computer Graphics Forum, 30(3):683–690, May 2011.
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BibTeX entry:



@ARTICLE{Zwan:2011:IMV,
  author      = {van der Zwan, Matthew and Wouter Lueks and Henk Bekker and Tobias Isenberg},
  title       = {Illustrative Molecular Visualization with Continuous Abstraction},
  journal     = {Computer Graphics Forum},
  year        = {2011},
  volume      = {30},
  number      = {3},
  month       = may,
  pages       = {683--690},
  doi         = {10.1111/j.1467-8659.2011.01917.x},
  doi_url     = {https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8659.2011.01917.x},
  oa_hal_url  = {https://hal.science/hal-00781508},
  url         = {https://tobias.isenberg.cc/p/Zwan2011IMV},
  pdf         = {https://tobias.isenberg.cc/personal/papers/Zwan_2011_IMV.pdf},
}

Other References:

Wouter Lueks, Ivan Viola, Matthew van der Zwan, Henk Bekker, and Tobias Isenberg (2011) Spatially Continuous Change of Abstraction in Molecular Visualization. In Miriah Meyer and Cydney Nielsen, eds., Abstracts of 1st IEEE Symposium on Biological Data Visualization (BioVis, October 23–24, Providence, RI, USA). IEEE Computer Society, Los Alamitos, 2011. Extended abstract and poster, received Best Abstract Award at BioVis 2011.
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BibTeX entry:



@INPROCEEDINGS{Lueks:2011:SCC,
  author      = {Wouter Lueks and Ivan Viola and van der Zwan, Matthew and Henk Bekker and Tobias Isenberg},
  title       = {Spatially Continuous Change of Abstraction in Molecular Visualization},
  booktitle   = {Abstracts of 1\textsuperscript{st} IEEE Symposium on Biological Data Visualization (BioVis, October 23--24, Providence, RI, USA)},
  OPTeditor   = {Miriah Meyer and Cydney Nielsen},
  year        = {2011},
  publisher   = {IEEE Computer Society},
  address     = {Los Alamitos},
  oa_hal_url  = {https://hal.science/hal-00781520},
  url         = {https://tobias.isenberg.cc/p/Zwan2011IMV},
  url2        = {http://www.biovis.net/2011/papers_abstracts/abstracts/131.html},
  pdf         = {https://tobias.isenberg.cc/personal/papers/Lueks_2011_SCC.pdf},
}
Matthew van der Zwan (2011) An Abstraction Space for Molecular Visualization. Term project report, University of Groningen, The Netherlands, 2011.
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BibTeX entry:



@MASTERSTHESIS{Zwan:2011:ASM,
  author      = {Matthew van der Zwan},
  title       = {An Abstraction Space for Molecular Visualization},
  type        = {Term project report},
  year        = {2011},
  school      = {University of Groningen},
  address     = {The Netherlands},
  url         = {https://tobias.isenberg.cc/VideosAndDemos/Zwan2011IMV},
  pdf         = {https://tobias.isenberg.cc/personal/papers_students/Zwan_2011_ASM.pdf},
}

This work was done at the Scientific Visualization and Computer Graphics Lab of the University of Groningen, the Netherlands.