Stardust: Accessible and Transparent GPU Support for Information Visualization Rendering

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dc.contributor.authorRen, Donghaoen_US
dc.contributor.authorLee, Bongshinen_US
dc.contributor.authorHöllerer, Tobiasen_US
dc.contributor.editorHeer, Jeffrey and Ropinski, Timo and van Wijk, Jarkeen_US
dc.date.accessioned2017-06-12T05:22:30Z
dc.date.available2017-06-12T05:22:30Z
dc.date.issued2017
dc.description.abstractWeb-based visualization libraries are in wide use, but performance bottlenecks occur when rendering, and especially animating, a large number of graphical marks. While GPU-based rendering can drastically improve performance, that paradigm has a steep learning curve, usually requiring expertise in the computer graphics pipeline and shader programming. In addition, the recent growth of virtual and augmented reality poses a challenge for supporting multiple display environments beyond regular canvases, such as a Head Mounted Display (HMD) and Cave Automatic Virtual Environment (CAVE). In this paper, we introduce a new web-based visualization library called Stardust, which provides a familiar API while leveraging GPU's processing power. Stardust also enables developers to create both 2D and 3D visualizations for diverse display environments using a uniform API. To demonstrate Stardust's expressiveness and portability, we present five example visualizations and a coding playground for four display environments. We also evaluate its performance by comparing it against the standard HTML5 Canvas, D3, and Vega.en_US
dc.description.number3
dc.description.sectionheadersPlots, Plots, Plots
dc.description.seriesinformationComputer Graphics Forum
dc.description.volume36
dc.identifier.doi10.1111/cgf.13178
dc.identifier.issn1467-8659
dc.identifier.pages179-188
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1111/cgf.13178
dc.identifier.urihttps://diglib.eg.org:443/handle/10.1111/cgf13178
dc.publisherThe Eurographics Association and John Wiley & Sons Ltd.en_US
dc.subjectD.2.2 [Computer Graphics]
dc.subjectSoftware Engineering
dc.subjectDesign Tools and Techniques
dc.titleStardust: Accessible and Transparent GPU Support for Information Visualization Renderingen_US
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