MarmotViz

Abstract

MarmotViz is an illustrative visualization plug-in for ParaView. It enables users to identify and track time-varying features in simulation datasets. It permits the application of illustrative visualization effects to these features including: selective visualization, feature coloring, boundary smoothing, haloing, silhouette outlining, speedlines, and strobe silhouettes. These techniques serve to assist in exploration and interpretation of simulation data and can be used to generate enhanced renderings for presentation. The MarmotViz plug-in is developed as a flexible framework, and can be easily extended to incorporate new region-of-interest (ROI) identification algorithms, feature matching and tracking algorithms, and illustrative visualization effects.