Despite an object being visible, you might not understand it, and even if two people look at the same object they may perceive it differently. To understand an object, we look at it with our eyes. Therefore the way we draw objects is important for them to be understood. To be able to give a good understanding it is important to captivate the audience. In this paper, we describe a method for comprehensive viewing, understanding and captivation.

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This paper surveys visualization technique for image browsing. The paper mainly introduces visualization by reconstructing image information. The reconstruction including reordering or still and moving images, and extraction of high-level information from the images. This paper especially introduces visualization of human activity applying such reconstruction techniques.
Also, the last section of this paper discusses future direction of research on image browsing. The section discusses how image browsing differs from other visualization techniques, and how we can explore our future directions with abstract concepts of visualization studies.

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A ring-structured graphical search interface was proposed to support retrieval from ambiguous information needs. This interface enables users to input information needs without texts, create dynamic hierarchies by combining attributes and continue to search by evaluating retrieved results. In this paper, this proposed interface was introduced and its effects of applying botanical data retrieval and application search were discussed. The results of the usability tests showed that novice users could find more satisfied images, users could more easily find plant names by simply rotating the search rings, users could more easily analyze the information by quickly recognizing the features of retrieved plants and users could find unexpected application or make a new decision on downloading applications by preparing intuitive attributes such as color and atmosphere.

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In the field of computer graphics, applications such as movies and games benefit from realistic visualizations of fluid phenomena. Many methods have been proposed to simulate fluids behavior such as smoke, clouds, water and flames. However, in the field of CG, the magnetohydrodynamics that underlie the interaction between fluids and magnetic fields have not been extensively studied so far.
The phenomena covered by electromagnetic hydrodynamics can be further classified into plasma and magnetic fluids. The dynamics of aurora and prominence in the sun can be calculated by simulating a plasma. Meanwhile, magnetic fluids behave as both fluids and as magnetic bodies, and these characteristics allow them to generate ‘spike-like’ shapes along the direction of the magnetic field. It is important to represent and visualize these three phenomena using CG because these three phenomena are primary visual phenomena arising from the magnetic fields.
The goal of this research is to simulate two natural phenomena, the activity on the solar photosphere and aurora governed by magnetohydrodynamics equations, and the physical phenomenon of a magnetic fluid in the CG settings.

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Data visualization is becoming an important part in the advertising industry. This is due to increase of various data, which is called big data, in the society and the life of people. The purpose of advertising and communication is to resolve issues that a society or a company has. Data creative is a new way for execution, because it’s based on the real things, actions and phenomenon in the life of people. However, most of the target audience might not have a skill for understanding raw data, so it should be translated to be easy to understand. This paper describes the importance of data compilation and translation in visualization for communication based upon three precedents, and also accounts storytelling by visualization.

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Onomatopoeia has effect of prompting greater understanding to an explanation when added to it. In addition, all users of the same language seem to have at least similar impressions to various onomatopoeia. Onomatopoeia in Japanese are diverse and frequently used in day to day life, and their range of expression is very wide. In this study, the impressions of onomatopoeia in Japanese language are visualized as patterns, and an experience-based visualization system using onomatopoeia is proposed. It is deemed that from this, a piece of work would become a word, providing a unified impression and thus turns into a new communication device. Consequently, an expression that succeeded the impression of an onomatopoeia can be possible and this is considered to be a new word.

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