Fast Focus+Context Visualization of Large Scientific Data

Visualization of high-dimensional and time-dependent data, resulting from computational simulation, is a very challenging and resource-consuming task. Here, featurebased visualization approaches, which aim at a usercontrolled reduction of the data shown at one instance of time, proof to be useful. In this paper, we present a framework for interactive highdimensional visualization and feature specification. We put special emphasis on the design of the data access layer and the performance optimization of the highly interactive parts of our system.