MotionRugs: Visualizing Collective Trends in Space and Time (2018)

Understanding the movement patterns of collectives, such as flocks of birds or fish swarms, is an interesting open research question. The challenge in visualizing collective movement data is to show space and time of hundreds of movements at the same time to enable the detection of spatiotemporal patterns. By design, MotionRugs provides an overlap-free, compact overview of the development of group movements over time and thus, enables analysts to visually identify and explore group-specific temporal patterns.

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