We have created a simple 3D virtual environment into which to place our visualizations.
This 3D framework is based on a museum metaphor. For a given data set
there will be a series of ”rooms” - like rooms in a museum. Each room will display
some visual representation(s) of the data set. These visualizations could be threedimensional
like a sculpture in the museum or they could be two-dimensional like
a picture on the wall. There can be multiple visualizations in a single room and
there can be opportunity for some of the visualizations to be interactive.
Each collection of rooms will, of course, be viewable on the workstation and
in the RAVE, our immersive visualization environment. This 3D framework will
enable the user to move through the rooms and interact with the data.
The museum environment can be seen in many of the figures in subsequent
sections. A three room museum is shown in Figure 4.8.