Jack van Wijk


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Jack van Wijk is Full Professor Visualization at the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science of Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e).

His research interests are Information Visualization, Visual Analytics, Scientific Visualization, Mathematical Visualization, and Interaction.

Publications


INFODECODATA


INFODECODATA is an exhibition of the Graphics Design Museum in Breda, the Netherlands, which will start February 20th 2010. At INFODECODATA various examples of my work are shown, including a large collection of SequoiaView images of hard disks, myriahedral projections, flow visualization and mathematical visualization.

MagnaView


MagnaView is a spin-off company based on innovative technology from the visualization group. It provides tools to visualize large tables in a variety of ways, where simultaneously overviews as well as details are presented.  


Regular Maps

How to generate highly symmetric tilings of closed surfaces? Such tilings are called Regular Maps, see here for more info. Presented at ACM SIGGRAPH 2009.

Unfolding the Earth

What happens if we map the earth by gluing a large number of small maps together? Check out myriahedral projections.

Seifert surfaces

Given a knot, can you imagine an oriented surface bounded by that knot? More info can be found here.

Image Based Flow Visualization

Image Based Flow Visualization (IBFV) is a fast and versatile method for the visualization of two-dimensional fluid flows. Animations of fluid flow (textures, particles, etc.) are generated at 50 frames per second on standard PCs with 3D graphics hardware. The 2D version of IBFV has been presented at ACM SIGGRAPH 2002. More information can be found here. We have extended IBFV to deal with curved surfaces (presented at IEEE Visualization 2003). More information can be found here.

SequoiaView

Research at TU/e has led to an innovative method for tree visualization: Cushion Treemaps. For a practical application, see the SequoiaView homepage. With SequoiaView you can get insight in the contents of an entire hard disk within a few seconds.  

Image Based Rendering of Iterated Function Systems

A fast method to generate fractal imagery. More information can be found here.

The Preset Controller

An interactive solution for the exploration of large parameter spaces. More information can be found here.
Teaching

Contact


Jack van Wijk / vanwijk@win.tue.nl