Future challenges for ensemble visualization

Abstract

Simulating complex events is a challenge and often requires carefully selecting simulation parameters. As vast computation resources become available, researchers can run alternative parameter settings or simulation models in parallel, creating an ensemble of possible outcomes for a given event of interest. The visual analysis of ensembles is one of visualization's most important new areas and should greatly affect the field in the next few years. The goal is to develop expressive visualizations of an ensemble's properties to support scientists in this demanding parameter-space exploration.