"Optimizing Stepwise Animation in Dynamic Set Diagrams"
Kazuyo Mizuno, Hsiang-Yun Wu *), Shigeo Takahashi, Takeo Igarashi
A set diagram represents the membership relation among data elements. It is often visualized as secondary information on top of primary information, such as the spatial positions of elements on maps and charts. Visualizing the temporal evolution of such set diagrams as well as their primary features is quite important; however, conventional approaches have only focused on the temporal behavior of
the primary features and do not provide an effective means to highlight notable transitions within the set relationships. This paper presents an approach for generating a stepwise animation between set
diagrams by decomposing the entire transition into atomic changes associated with individual data elements. The key idea behind our approach is to optimize the ordering of the atomic changes such that
the synthesized animation minimizes unwanted set occlusions by considering their depth ordering and reduces the gaze shift between two consecutive stepwise changes. Experimental results and a user
study demonstrate that the proposed approach effectively facilitates the visual identification of the detailed transitions inherent in dynamic set diagrams.
*) TU Wien, Institute of Visual Computing & Human-Centered Technology E193-02
Favoritenstr. 9-11 / A-1040 Vienna, Austria
