Visualization in Astrophysics: Developing New Methods, Discovering Our Universe, and Educating the Earth

Lan, Fangfei; Young, Michael E.; Anderson, Lauren; Ynnerman, Anders; Böck, Alexander; Borkin, Michelle A.; Forbes, Angus G.; Kollmeier, Juna A.; Wang, Bei

doi:10.1111/cgf.14332

Cited by 14 publications

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“…To bring together different communities, we believe that the roadmap outlined by Lan et al [LYA*21] for astrophysics might be appropriate for the urban domain. This path involves joint workshops between visualization researchers and urban experts to be held at conferences in the respective areas, such as IEEE VIS and SimAUD.…”

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The State of the Art in Visual Analytics for 3D Urban Data

Miranda,

Ortner,

Moreira

et al. 2024

Computer Graphics Forum

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Urbanization has amplified the importance of three‐dimensional structures in urban environments for a wide range of phenomena that are of significant interest to diverse stakeholders. With the growing availability of 3D urban data, numerous studies have focused on developing visual analysis techniques tailored to the unique characteristics of urban environments. However, incorporating the third dimension into visual analytics introduces additional challenges in designing effective visual tools to tackle urban data's diverse complexities. In this paper, we present a survey on visual analytics of 3D urban data. Our work characterizes published works along three main dimensions (why, what, and how), considering use cases, analysis tasks, data, visualizations, and interactions. We provide a fine‐grained categorization of published works from visualization journals and conferences, as well as from a myriad of urban domains, including urban planning, architecture, and engineering. By incorporating perspectives from both urban and visualization experts, we identify literature gaps, motivate visualization researchers to understand challenges and opportunities, and indicate future research directions.

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Section: Discussion Research Directions and Opportunitiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

The State of the Art in Visual Analytics for 3D Urban Data

Miranda,

Ortner,

Moreira

et al. 2024

Computer Graphics Forum

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“…Meredith advocates using informative and engaging visuals for communicating scientific information to improve the comprehension and engagement of the audience (Meredith, 2021). There are many examples for communicating science to broad audiences by making use of visualization, e.g., for astro physics (Lan et al, 2021), climate communication (Windhager, Schreder & Mayr, 2019), and medical communication (Meuschke et al, 2022). However, for addressing expert audiences, the literature is more sparse.…”

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Expert exploranation for communicating scientific methods — A case study in conflict research

Mayer,

Donnay,

Lawonn

et al. 2024

Computers & Graphics

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“…A recent survey by Lan et al [15] provides a comprehensive survey of interactive visualization software used by astronomers, categorizing the main functionality of these tools as being related to one or more of the following: data wrangling, data exploration, feature identification, object reconstruction, and education and outreach. In this section, we highlight approaches that support the analysis of simulation datasets.…”

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CosmoVis: An Interactive Visual Analysis Tool for Exploring Hydrodynamic Cosmological Simulations

Abramov

Burchett

Elek

et al. 2022

IEEE Trans. Visual. Comput. Graphics

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We introduce CosmoVis, an open source web-based visualization tool for the interactive analysis of massive hydrodynamic cosmological simulation data. CosmoVis was designed in close collaboration with astrophysicists to enable researchers and citizen scientists to share and explore these datasets, and to use them to investigate a range of scientific questions. CosmoVis visualizes many key gas, dark matter, and stellar attributes extracted from the source simulations, which typically consist of complex data structures multiple terabytes in size, often requiring extensive data wrangling. CosmoVis introduces a range of features to facilitate real-time analysis of these simulations, including the use of "virtual skewers," simulated analogues of absorption line spectroscopy that act as spectral probes piercing the volume of gaseous cosmic medium. We explain how such synthetic spectra can be used to gain insight into the source datasets and to make functional comparisons with observational data. Furthermore, we identify the main analysis tasks that CosmoVis enables and present implementation details of the software interface and the client-server architecture. We conclude by providing details of three contemporary scientific use cases that were conducted by domain experts using the software and by documenting expert feedback from astrophysicists at different career levels.

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Visualization in Astrophysics: Developing New Methods, Discovering Our Universe, and Educating the Earth

Cited by 14 publications

References 122 publications

The State of the Art in Visual Analytics for 3D Urban Data

The State of the Art in Visual Analytics for 3D Urban Data

Expert exploranation for communicating scientific methods — A case study in conflict research

CosmoVis: An Interactive Visual Analysis Tool for Exploring Hydrodynamic Cosmological Simulations

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