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Using Animation to Enhance 3D Visualization: A Strategy for a Production Environment

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 July 2020

M. T. Dougherty  and
W. Chiu
M. T. Dougherty
Affiliation:
National Center for Macromolecular Imaging, Verna and Marrs McLean Department of Biochemistry, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, 77030
W. Chiu
Affiliation:
National Center for Macromolecular Imaging, Verna and Marrs McLean Department of Biochemistry, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, 77030
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The use of animation can significantly enhance the visualization of three-dimensional (3D) structures. It can present a focused train of thought, or it can be used to systematically scan through previously unfathomable quantities of data to examine for unknown features and consistencies. In order to establish a modern animation facility requires a variety of technical, psychological and artistic skills, in addition to advanced computer graphics and related equipment. 3D graphics combined with animation has proven to be a very effective tool in storytelling. The dynamic visual image is uniquely suited for thought experiments, simulations and traversing vast quantities of data otherwise incomprehensible to the human mind. Sometimes animation is the only method that allows a clear presentation of complex empirical or theoretical information in many dimensions. Scientific visualization is by its nature an exploratory process. And frequently animations are iteratively refined and polished to enhance comprehensibility for the researchers and their peers.

Type
Unique Approaches in Imaging, Computation and Communication for Characterization of the 3D Cell & Organelles I
Information
Microscopy and Microanalysis , Volume 4 , Issue S2: Proceedings: Microscopy & Microanalysis '98, Microscopy Society of America 56th Annual Meeting, Microbeam Analysis Society 32nd Annual Meeting, Atlanta, Georgia July 12-16, 1998 , July 1998 , pp. 452 - 453
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Copyright © Microscopy Society of America

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