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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 07, 2000
Filed:
Dec. 09, 1997
Barry Glenn Becker, Mountain View, CA (US);
Silicon Graphics, Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
A method, system, and computer program product are provided for a new data visualization tool that visually approximates a scatter plot and provides smooth animation of graphics by using interpolated data. An interpolation process is performed over pre-processed bins of scattered data points. A user can smoothly animate a plot along several dimensions by using an external query device to vary a selected data attribute. If the external query device (or slider) control is positioned in between discrete positions of the slider, the displayed plot corresponds to interpolated data. Adjacent data structures are determined corresponding to the position of the external query device. The adjacent data structures are merged together, then aggregated the using the spatial columns of the data structure as a unique key. An interpolated bin is generated, where the weight of the bin is interpolated and the dependent attribute is also interpolated and weighted. The interpolated dependent attribute is mapped to color in the visualized scatter plot. The plot appears as rendered splats corresponding to bin positions of the interpolated bins, where each splat has an opacity that is a function of the interpolated weight of data points in the corresponding bin.