R.S. Allendes Osorio and K.W. Brodlie.
"Contouring with Uncertainty".
In 6th Theory and Practice of Computer Graphics Conference, pp. 59--66, 2008.

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Abstract:

As stated by Johnson [Joh04], the visualization of uncertainty remains one of the major challenges for the visualization community. To achieve this, we need to understand and develop methods that allow us not only to consider uncertainty as an extra variable within the visualization process, but to treat it as an integral part. In this paper, we take contouring, one of the most widely used visualization techniques for two dimensional data, and focus on extending the concept of contouring to uncertainty. We develop special techniques for the visualization of uncertain contours. We illustrate the work through application to a case study in oceanography.

Bibtex:

@InProceedings{  osorio:2008:CWU,
  Author = 	 "R.S. Allendes Osorio and K.W. Brodlie",
  title = 	 "Contouring with Uncertainty",
  booktitle =    "6th Theory and Practice of Computer Graphics
                  Conference",
  pages = 	 "59--66",
  year = 	 "2008",
}

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