VISUALIZATION OF MULTI DIMENSIONAL FUNCTIONS
BIRDS EYE VIEW OF THE PROBLEM
This section is just an overview of the problem and the general approach to its solution as I conceive it. Any problem regarding multidimensional function visualization can be classified as representing one or more of the following - explicit values of the independent variable and / or the dependant variable or the functional values. Any approach to tackling this problem should first decipher what they want to show ultimately.
Then comes the major part - representing the data on the screen keeping in mind the constraints of
trying to represent as much as data as possible
use as much of the screen space as possible effectively
the visualization should be intuitive to the user
Once the visualization has been completed additional features to enable the user to interact with it are developed so that the user can interact with the figure and discover many patterns of interest.
Concisely,
WHAT TO SHOW -> EFFECTIVE REPRESENTATION -> INTERACTION MECHANISMS
Updated on Sept 2nd 2001