More Interesting Visualizations

Here are a few of the papers that I took a look at that were interesting, at least the papers I read in the past couple days.

• http://www.iam.unibe.ch/~scg/Archive/PhD/greevy-phd.pdf

  184 pages, really comprehensive, not that flashy though

• http://softeng.polito.it/events/WESRE2006/02Fronk.pdf

  Every time I see something that’s “Reverse Engineering” it ends up being Java?!!?!

  I didn’t think there was all that much to reverse in JAVA?

Either way, I like some of their stuff. I think that when I implement this for native C++ (later tonight), I’m going to try to use an approach where;

My system is based on live analysis of native binary code. The one thing that I’m going to discuss, is the varying methods to represent an object during its lifetime with functional visualizations (i.e. that show more than simple linear relationships between object classes).

• As far as graph lib’s go, I always liked aiSee (http://www.aisee.com/gallery/)
• http://www.mcs.vuw.ac.nz/~craig/references.shtml
  • Good links to recent stuff and individual researchers ( I don’t have ACM or IEEE right now L
• http://www.inf.unisi.ch/faculty/lanza/Downloads/Wett07b.pdf
  • Related to that first paper, kind of different, It’s like a squarified treemap but with extra dimension.
• http://www.inf.unisi.ch/faculty/lanza/Downloads/DAmb07b.pdf
  • This “A bug’s Life” – Visualizing a Bug Database is cool I like the “Bug Watch”

TAU

I’ve been playing around with TAU a lot, pretty interesting. I’ve been porting the Open Trace Format (OTF) to C# for use in managed / WPF visualization related work.

Even though this link is a bit old I did learn a lot about Kiviat diagrams, they also have a neat simulation that depicts the live execution context of a process while it run’s in system memory.

http://www.cs.uoregon.edu/research/paraducks/papers/tr9323.d/#s7.1.3