ICASE / LaRC Symposium on Visualizing Time - Varying Data

Visualization of the flOW field near a high density contour in an interstellar cloud collision simulation. Preface Time-varying datasets present difficult problems for both analysis and visualization. For example, the data may be terabytes in size, distributed across mass storage systems at several sites, with time scales ranging from femtoseconds to eons. In response to these challenges, ICASE and NASA Langley Research Center, in cooperation with ACM SIGGRAPH, organized the first Symposium on Visualizing Time-Varying Data. The purpose was to bring the producers of time-varying data together with visualization specialists to assess open issues in the field, present new solutions, and encourage collaborative problem-solving. These proceedings contain the peer-reviewed papers which were presented at the Symposium. They cover a broad range of topics, from methods for modeling and compressing data to systems for visualizing CFD simulations and World Wide Web traffic. Because the subject matter is inherently dynamic, a paper proceedings cannot adequately convey all aspects of the work. The accompanying video proceedings provide additional context for several of the papers. In addition to the contributed papers, the Symposium featured a dozen informal "home videos" of work in progress, as well as several live demonstrations of visualization systems. We also solicited contributions of time-varying datasets which pose challenging visualization problems. Abstracts of the informal presentations are included here. The complete program, the contributed datasets, and other materials are available on the World Wide Web at " Emily Todd of ICASE provided invaluable assistance in managing the logistics of the Symposium and assembling the proceedings.