Enhanced Interactive Spiral Display

Visualizing Temporal Data Using Two-Tone Pseudo Coloring on a Spiral
Christian Tominski (with Steffen Hadlak)
University of Rostock, 2008-2024
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Spiral displays have been developed to visualize the cyclic character of a data set. They can be useful for spotting seasonal patterns in time series data. This spiral display applies the expressive two-tone pseudo coloring by Saito et al. (2005), which allows users to read data values more precisely. Efficient interaction facilities allow for easy exploration of the data space and easy adjustment of a variety of visualization parameters.
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You may try out this Java software. Download the file TTS.zip and if you are lucky you can (still) run it out of the box by calling java -jar TTS.jar on the command line. On high-resolution displays, you may want to insert -Dsun.java2d.uiScale=2.0 right before the -jar switch with a scaling factor that matches your device configuration (e.g., 2.0 for 200% display scaling). This research prototype is provided "as is" without warranty of any kind.
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