Stacking-Based Visualization of Trajectory Attribute Data

Interactive visual exploration of movement data
Christian Tominski
University of Rostock, 2011-2024
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The core of TrajectoryVis is a hybrid 2D/3D visualization. A 2D map serves as a reference for the spatial context, and movement trajectories are visualized either as 2D trajectory lines or as stacked 3D trajectory bands, where attribute values are encoded by color. Time is integrated through appropriate ordering of bands and through a dynamic time lens that feeds temporally aggregated information to a circular time display. TrajectoryVis is equipped with coordinated highlighting and dedicated 3D navigation.
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You may try out this Java software. Download the file TrajectoryVis.jar and if you are lucky you can (still) run it out of the box by calling java -jar TrajectoryVis.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.