Scientific Visualization: Advances and Challenges
Demonstrates new techniques, examines diverse application areas and discusses current limitations and upcoming requirements of scientific visualization.
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Format: Hardcover, English, 532 pages
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Numerical simulations of global warming...planetary exploration data... aircraft design... these are but a few of the topics where the use of human visual perception for data understanding has been found to be essential.
Table of Contents
| Acknowledgements | ||
| About the Editors | ||
| Foreword | ||
| Preface | ||
| Introduction | ||
| 1 | Trends in Volume Visualization and Volume Graphics | 3 |
| 2 | Medical Volume Visualization Based on "Intelligent Volumes" | 21 |
| 3 | Data Parallel Volume Rendering | 37 |
| 4 | Global Information Visualization - The Visualization Challenge for the 21st Century | 55 |
| 5 | Real-Time Exploratory Scientific Visualization and Virtual Reality | 65 |
| 6 | Automated Design of Data Visualizations | 87 |
| 7 | Next-generation Data Visualization Tools | 103 |
| 8 | From Perception to Visualization | 129 |
| 9 | Research Issues in Modeling for the Analysis and Visualization of Large Data Sets | 143 |
| 10 | Modeling and Visualization Through Data Compression | 157 |
| 11 | Subspace Methods for the Visualization of Multidimensional Data Sets | 171 |
| 12 | Visualization of Large Data Sets | 187 |
| 13 | Computer Animation: A Key Issue for Time Visualization | 201 |
| 14 | Fundamental Approaches to Interactive Real-Time Visualization Systems | 223 |
| 15 | Underlying Data Models and Structures for Visualization | 239 |
| 16 | Partitioned Objects Sharing for Visualization in Distributed Environments | 251 |
| 17 | Design of a Flexible Monolithic Visualization System | 265 |
| 18 | Systematic Approaches to Visualization: Is a Reference Model Needed? | 287 |
| 19 | Coding of Object Surfaces Using Atoms | 309 |
| 20 | Fractal Geometry and its Applications in Visualization | 323 |
| 21 | Representing and Visualizing Complex Continuous Geometric Models | 337 |
| 22 | Modeling Complex Indoor Scenes Using an Analysis/Synthesis Framework | 349 |
| 23 | Visual Representation of Vector Fields: Recent Developments and Research Directions | 367 |
| 24 | Visualization of the Quantum Coulomb Three-Body Problem in the Adiabatic Hyperspherical Approach | 391 |
| 25 | Solar System Visualization: Global Science Maps | 407 |
| 26 | Visualization of Vector and Tensor Data Sets | 419 |
| 27 | Progress and Problems in Ocean Visualization | 435 |
| 28 | Research Issues in Scientific Visualization | 457 |
| Abstracts | 509 | |
| Appendix | Contributors | 517 |
