Paper Info
Title
Inviwo - A Visualization System with Usage Abstraction Levels.
Abstract
The complexity of today's visualization applications demands specific visualization systems tailored for the development of these applications. Frequently, such systems utilize levels of abstraction to improve the application development process, for instance by providing a data flow network editor. Unfortunately, these abstractions result in several issues, which need to be circumvented through an abstraction-centered system design. Often, a high level of abstraction hides low level details, which makes it difficult to directly access the underlying computing platform, which would be important to achieve an optimal performance. Therefore, we propose a layer structure developed for modern and sustainable visualization systems allowing developers to interact with all contained abstraction levels. We refer to this interaction capabilities as usage abstraction levels, since we target application developers with various levels of experience. We formulate the requirements for such a system, derive the desired architecture, and present how the concepts have been exemplary realized within the Inviwo visualization system. Furthermore, we address several specific challenges that arise during the realization of such a layered architecture, such as communication between different computing platforms, performance centered encapsulation, as well as layer-independent development by supporting cross layer documentation and debugging capabilities.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.1109/tvcg.2019.2920639
IEEE transactions on visualization and computer graphics
DocType
Volume
Citations 
Journal
abs/1811.12517
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
9
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Daniel Jönsson1305.26
Peter Steneteg200.34
Erik Sundén3716.04
Rickard Englund483.86
Sathish Kottravel5122.92
Martin Falk6898.47
Anders Ynnerman770761.82
Ingrid Hotz838532.95
Timo Ropinski964053.79