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Expanding the Visual Vocabulary of Scientific Visualization

Expanded Vocabularies

Scientific visualization has traditionally relied on a narrow set of geometric shapes such as circles, squares, and cubes to represent data. Although these forms are functional, they limit how scientists can express complexity, nuance, and relationships within large or intricate datasets. This research expands that visual vocabulary by drawing inspiration from the wide range of forms, textures, symbols, and aesthetic strategies found in art and design. By broadening the representational toolkit, it becomes possible to depict scientific information in ways that are more expressive, intuitive, and visually rich. This work challenges the sparse conventions of traditional visualization and explores how new visual forms can reveal patterns and stories that might otherwise remain hidden. The ultimate aim is to reshape how scientific information is communicated by embracing the full spectrum of visual possibilities available in the world


Sculpting Vis

Let Them Not Say
Artistic Practice: Mixing The Currents Of Science and Data
Associative Forms For Encoding Multivariate Climate Data
Affective, Hand-Sculpted Glyph Forms for Engaging and Expressive Scientific Visualization
IEEE VISAP 2023: Mixtures of Human Experience, Intellectual Analysis, Data Representation and Our Natural Environment
Artifact-Based Rendering
Artistic Encodings on Antarctic Ocean Data
Sculpting Data
Scientific Visualization: Art, Nature, and Vocabulary
Artifact-Based Rendering: Harnessing Natural and Traditional
Visual Media for More Expressive and Engaging 3D Visualizations

Expanding Lines

What’s My Line? Exploring the Expressive Capacity of Lines in Scientific Visualization
What’s My Line? Exploring the Expressive Capacity of Lines in Scientific Visualization
What’s My Line? Exploring the Expressive Capacity of Lines in Scientific Visualization

Color for Scientific Visualization

Extracting Palettes from Nature to Enrich Geoscience Visualizations
Color
New Default Colormap for ParaView

PUBLICATIONS

What’s My Line: Exploring the Expressive Capacity of Lines in Scientific Visualization

Sculpting Data: How HPC and Art Create the Future of Scientific Visualization

A New Default Colormap for ParaView

Associative Forms for Multivariate Climate Data

Human Fingerprints and Artistic Vocabulary; Rendering Data, Creating Engagement, Connection and Context to Earth System Models

Affective, Hand-Sculpted Glyph Forms for Engaging and Expressive Scientific Visualization

Associative Forms for Encoding Multivariate Climate Data

Scientific Visualization: Art, Nature, and Vocabulary

Artifact-Based Rendering: Harnessing Natural and Traditional Visual Media for More Expressive and Engaging 3D Visualizations

ASSOCIATED PUBLICATIONS

Colormaps that improve perception of high-resolution ocean data

Environmental Visualization: Moving Beyond the Rainbows

Intuitive colormaps for environmental visualization

Colormapping resources and strategies for organized intuitive environmental visualization

Relevant Citations

ABR Applets

SciVisColor

Quiet Climate Communication: Beauty and Poetry

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