We as visualization scientists are experiencing a significant growth in the amount of data that we must process and prepare for visual analysis. The desire for user interactivity at real-time frame rates is increasing as well. However, it is not clear that existing methods for visualizing complex time varying phenomena have properly examined the amount of information that is being perceived by the end-user. This project is investigating a variety of methods that examine methods for effectively conveying maximum desired information while minimizing the amount of time that the computational and rendering resources are required.