@inproceedings{PB-VRVis-2017-046,
author = {Sorger, Johannes and Mindek, Peter and Rautek, Peter and Gr{\"o}ller, Eduard and Johnson, Graham and Viola, Ivan},
title = {Metamorphers: Storytelling Templates For Illustrative Animated Transitions in Molecular Visualization},
year = {2017},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the Spring Conference on Computer Graphics
  2017},
editor = {n.n.},
url = {https://www.vrvis.at/publications/PB-VRVis-2017-046},
pages = {27--36},
abstract = {In molecular biology, illustrative animations are used to  convey complex biological phenomena to broad audiences.  However, such animations have to be manually authored in 3D  modeling software, a time consuming task that has to be  repeated from scratch for every new data set, and requires a  high level of expertise in illustration, animation, and  biology. We therefore propose metamorphers: a set of  operations for defining animation states as well as the  transitions to them in the form of re-usable story telling  templates. The re-usability is two-fold. Firstly, due to  their modular nature, metamorphers can be re-used in  different combinations to create a wide range of animations.  Secondly, due to their abstract nature, metamorphers can be  re-used to re-create an intended animation for a wide range  of compatible data sets. Metamorphers thereby mask the low  level complexity of explicit animation specifications by  exploiting the inherent properties of the molecular data,  such as the position, size, and hierarchy level of a  semantic data subset.},
keywords = {animated transitions, storytelling, molecular visualization},
}