Keyboard Based Control of Four Dimensional Rotations
This addresses a niche problem for researchers in scientific visualization needing intuitive control over 4D rotations, but it is incremental as it builds on known properties of double rotations.
The paper tackles the problem of controlling 4D rotations for scientific visualization of 3D simulations with time evolution by proposing a keyboard-based method that specifies both simple and double rotations with single key typings, and it is tested in visualizations of a regular pentachoron using hyperplane slicing.
Aiming at applications to the scientific visualization of three dimensional simulations with time evolution, a keyboard based control method to specify rotations in four dimensions is proposed. It is known that four dimensional rotations are generally so-called double rotations, and a double rotation is a combination of simultaneously applied two simple rotations. The proposed method can specify both the simple and double rotations by single key typings of the keyboard. The method is tested in visualizations of a regular pentachoron in four dimensional space by a hyperplane slicing.