ABSTRACT

A considerable amount of work has been done in the field of visualizing chemical compounds and there have been several types of visualization and interaction implemented and evaluated in 3D and immersive environments in this area. While prior work has elucidated design criteria for 2D or 3D information visualizations, little of this work addresses the combination of embedded, coordinated 2D visualizations in an immersive environment. The challenge unique to our project is how software and communication architectures can work together to support coordinated displays and interactions across rendered dimensions. Our work extends previous research by having 2D and 3D views of the molecular data linked across Snap and DIVERSE platforms. 2D data about a molecules and its atoms is viewed through Snap while the 3D structure will be viewed in DIVERSE, specifically the CAVE. This requires the sharing of addressible data objects and event communication across the applications. Across these coordinated visualizations in an immersive space, we demonstrate visualization tasks such as Overview/Detail, Selection, and Manipulation and identify usability issues that may guide future work.

• the original class paper for this project (update in progress here)
• the Snap source for this project
• the s_atomview source
• the XWand source
• Setup instructions
• Data & tools:
  CML source files
  X3D files
  XSLT
  
  
• A zip archive with all of the above.

updated 12/16/02