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A Multi-Threading Architecture to Support Interactive Visual Exploration
November/December 2009 (vol. 15 no. 6)
pp. 1113-1120
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Harald Piringer, Christian Tominski, Philipp Muigg, Wolfgang Berger, "A Multi-Threading Architecture to Support Interactive Visual Exploration," IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, vol. 15, no. 6, pp. 1113-1120, November/December, 2009.
 
 
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@article{ 10.1109/TVCG.2009.110,
author = {Harald Piringer and Christian Tominski and Philipp Muigg and Wolfgang Berger},
title = {A Multi-Threading Architecture to Support Interactive Visual Exploration},
journal ={IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics},
volume = {15},
number = {6},
issn = {1077-2626},
year = {2009},
pages = {1113-1120},
doi = {http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/TVCG.2009.110},
publisher = {IEEE Computer Society},
address = {Los Alamitos, CA, USA},
}
 
 
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A1 - Wolfgang Berger,
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Harald Piringer, VRVis Research Center, Vienna, Austria
Christian Tominski, Institute for Computer Science, University of Rostock, Germany
Philipp Muigg, Vienna University of Technology and SimVis Gmbh, Vienna, Austria
Wolfgang Berger, VRVis Research Center, Vienna, Austria
During continuous user interaction, it is hard to provide rich visual feedback at interactive rates for datasets containing millions of entries. The contribution of this paper is a generic architecture that ensures responsiveness of the application even when dealing with large data and that is applicable to most types of information visualizations. Our architecture builds on the separation of the main application thread and the visualization thread, which can be cancelled early due to user interaction. In combination with a layer mechanism, our architecture facilitates generating previews incrementally to provide rich visual feedback quickly. To help avoiding common pitfalls of multi-threading, we discuss synchronization and communication in detail. We explicitly denote design choices to control trade-offs. A quantitative evaluation based on the system VI S P L ORE shows fast visual feedback during continuous interaction even for millions of entries. We describe instantiations of our architecture in additional tools.

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Index Terms:
Information visualization architecture, continuous interaction, multi-threading, layer, preview
Citation:
Harald Piringer, Christian Tominski, Philipp Muigg, Wolfgang Berger, "A Multi-Threading Architecture to Support Interactive Visual Exploration," IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, vol. 15, no. 6, pp. 1113-1120, Nov.-Dec. 2009, doi:10.1109/TVCG.2009.110
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