A universal visualization platform.

摘要

Although there are a number of visualization systems to choose from when analyzing data, only a few of these allow for the integration of other visualization and analysis techniques. There are even fewer visualization toolkits, frameworks and developmental systems from which one can develop custom visualization applications. Even within the research community, scientists either use what they can from the available tools or start from scratch to define a program in which they are able to develop new or modified visualization techniques.; This research presents a new general-purpose platform in which the design and experimentation of new visualization and analysis techniques is the focus, and where the sharing of and integration with other techniques becomes second nature. Here we introduce the Universal Visualization Platform (UVP) as a data visualization and analysis system supporting future research and modern discovery environments. Furthermore, we present a novel perspective on the Model-View-Controller programming paradigm that defines visualizations as views of models. Finally, we present a new layer model specifying the construction and manipulation of visualizations. Here, layers containing graphic elements that encode information are rendered together using composition operators to generate visual displays.