Brushing

Brushing is the process of interactively selecting data items from a visual representation. The original intention of brushing is to highlight brushed data items in different views of a visualization.

see also: Linking and Brushing

References

• [Buja et al., 1991] A. Buja, J.A. McDonald, J. Michalak, and W. Stuetzle. Interactive Data Visualization using Focusing and Linking. In Proceedings of IEEE Visualization (Vis’91), pages 156–163. IEEE Computer Society Press, 1991.
• [Tominski, 2006] Christian Tominski, Event-Based Visualization for User-Centered Visual Analysis, PhD Thesis, Institute for Computer Science, Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, University of Rostock, forthcoming 2006.