SVEN: Informative Visual Representation of Complex Dynamic Structure

Abstract

Graphs change over time, and typically variations on the small multiples or animation pattern is used to convey this dynamism visually. However, both of these classical techniques have significant drawbacks, so a new approach, Storyline Visualization of Events on a Network (SVEN) is proposed. SVEN builds on storyline techniques, conveying nodes as contiguous lines over time. SVEN encodes time in a natural manner, along the horizontal axis, and optimizes the vertical placement of storylines to decrease clutter (line crossings, straightness, and bends) in the drawing. This paper demonstrates SVEN on several different flavors of real-world dynamic data, and outlines the remaining near-term future work.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 23, 2014
Accession Number
ADA626842

Entities

People

  • Dustin L. Arendt
  • Leslie M. Blaha

Organizations

  • Air Force Research Laboratory

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Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Ground and Sea Platforms

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Air Force Research Laboratories
  • Algorithms
  • Cell Division
  • Cell Physiological Processes
  • Cells
  • Clustering
  • Crossings
  • Evolutionary Algorithms
  • Fungi
  • Military Research
  • Optimization
  • Simplex Method
  • South Carolina
  • Time Intervals
  • Two Dimensional
  • Visualizations

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  • Computer Vision.
  • Structural Dynamics.
  • Systems Analysis and Design