Mix & Match:
A Construction Kit for Visualization

Abstract:

We present an environment in which users can interactively create different visualization methods. This modular and extensible environment encapsulates most of the existing visualization algorithms. Users can easily construct new visualization methods by combining simple, fine grain building blocks. These components operate on a local subset of the data and generally either look for target features or produce visual objects. Intermediate compositions may also be used to build more complex visualizations. This environment provides a foundation for building and exploring novel visualization methods.

Papers:

A postscript version of the paper presented at the Visualization'94 conference is available through anonymous ftp to ftp.cse.ucsc.edu then get pub/reinas/papers/vis94.mixnmatch.ps.Z, or click here .

A related paper: "Spray Rendering as a Modular Visualization Environment" is also available through anonymous ftp to ftp.cse.ucsc.edu then get pub/reinas/papers/sig.mve.ps.gz, or click here .