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Interactive Visualization of Generalized Virtual 3D City Models using Level‐of‐Abstraction Transitions
Author(s) -
Semmo Amir,
Trapp Matthias,
Kyprianidis Jan Eric,
Döllner Jürgen
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
computer graphics forum
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.578
H-Index - 120
eISSN - 1467-8659
pISSN - 0167-7055
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-8659.2012.03081.x
Subject(s) - computer science , visualization , human–computer interaction , information visualization , geospatial analysis , perspective (graphical) , creative visualization , scientific visualization , abstraction , multimedia , computer graphics (images) , artificial intelligence , geography , cartography , philosophy , epistemology
Virtual 3D city models play an important role in the communication of complex geospatial information in a growing number of applications, such as urban planning, navigation, tourist information, and disaster management. In general, homogeneous graphic styles are used for visualization. For instance, photorealism is suitable for detailed presentations, and non‐photorealism or abstract stylization is used to facilitate guidance of a viewer's gaze to prioritized information. However, to adapt visualization to different contexts and contents and to support saliency‐guided visualization based on user interaction or dynamically changing thematic information, a combination of different graphic styles is necessary. Design and implementation of such combined graphic styles pose a number of challenges, specifically from the perspective of real‐time 3D visualization. In this paper, the authors present a concept and an implementation of a system that enables different presentation styles, their seamless integration within a single view, and parametrized transitions between them, which are defined according to tasks, camera view, and image resolution. The paper outlines potential usage scenarios and application fields together with a performance evaluation of the implementation.