Integrative Visualisation for Orthogonal Design Performances

复杂设计问题、高维设计空间和分析的可视化倾向于符合单一的显示模式，因为最适合正在调查的特定问题或性能。例如，计算流体动力学、结构应力和应变、振动预测、声学、不同细节层次的空间布局和形状等。然而，人类的大脑能够以视觉形式处理大量信息，如果出现不一致/不确定的“松散结局”，人类的好奇心会特别强。这个项目不是将人类演员禁锢在不可避免的单一可视化模式中，而是试图探索在可视化模式之间顺利重叠和交替的方法；所提出的演示案例是一个流体分配系统，从功能描述到性能模拟/预测，再到最终的3D详细设计，再到调试期间记录的实际性能结果。其目的是开发一种架构，以方便用户在最合适的模式之间切换，或者无缝集成可视化，以理解功能，物理和操作的交叉视图。

The visualisation of complex design problems, high - dimensional design spaces and analyses tends to conform to a single mode of display, as best suits the specific question or performance under investigation. For example, computational fluid dynamics, structural stresses and strains, vibration predictions, acoustics, spatial layouts and shapes of different level-of-detail, etc. However the human mind is capable of processing large quantities of information in visual formats and is notably inquisitive if presented with discordant/inconclusive 'loose-ends'. Rather than imprisoning the human actor in an inescapable single mode of visualisation, this project seeks to explore ways to smoothly overlap and alternate between modes of visualisation; the demonstrator case proposed is a fluid distribution system, going from the functional description, to the performance simulation/prediction, to the final 3D detailed design, through to a real-world performance results recorded during commissioning. The aim is to develop an architecture to facilitate the user with a way to either switch between the most appropriate mode of, or have seamlessly integrated, visualisations to understand there intersectional views of functional, physical and operation.