A Similarity-Based 3D Time-Varying Data Visualization Technique

Time-varying data visualization is an active research topic in these years. This paper is currently focusing on visualization of various time-varying data, including weather, gene expression, and atomic plant measurement data. Polyline chart is the most common time-varying data visualization technique. The authors think famous Information Seeking Mantra, which suggests important operations for information visualization "Overview, Zoom, Filter, and Detail on demand", is also important for polyline-based time-varying data visualization. Several interactive techniques have realized the filtering of unfocused portions of the time-varying data.