In the past decade visualization established its importance both in scientific research and in real-world applications. In this book 21 research papers and 9 case studies report on the latest results in volume and flow visualization and information visualization. Thus it is a valuable source of information not only for researchers but also for practitioners developing or using visualization applications.

Inhalt
Information Visualization (Research Papers).- Procedural Shape Generation for Multi-dimensional Data Visualization.- Skeletal Images as Visual Cues in Graph Visualization.- Visualization by Examples: Mapping Data to Visual Representations Using Few Correspondences.- Flow Visualization (Research Papers).- 2D Vector Field Visualization Using Furlike Texture.- Visualization of Global Flow Structures Using Multiple Levels of Topology.- Geometric Methods for Vortex Extraction.- Attribute-Based Feature Tracking.- New Approaches for Particle Tracing on Sparse Grids.- Volume Visualization (Research Papers).- A Methodology for Comparing Direct Volume Rendering Algorithms Using a Projection-Based Data Level Approach.- Parallel Multipipe Rendering for Very Large Isosurface Visualization.- Interactive Direct Volume Rendering of Time-Varying Data.- Efficiently Rendering Large Volume Data Using Texture Mapping Hardware.- Visualization of Medical Data & Molecules (Research Papers).- Real-Time Maximum Intensity Projection.- Fast Volume Rotation using Binary Shear-Warp Factorization.- VIVENDI - A Virtual Ventricle Endoscopy System for Virtual Medicine.- A Client-side Approach towards Platform Independent Molecular Visualization over the World Wide Web.- Geometry, Grids, and Systems (Research Papers).- Geodesic Flow on Polyhedral Surfaces.- On Simulated Annealing and the Construction of Linear Spline Approximations for Scattered Data.- A Comparison of Error Indicators for Multilevel Visualization on Nested Grids.- Efficient Ray Intersection for Visualization and Navigation of Global Terrain using Spheroidal Height-Augmented Quadtrees.- VISSION: An Object Oriented Datafiow System for Simulation and Visualization.- Information Visualization and Systems (Case Studies).- Application of Information Visualization to the Analysis of Software Release History.- Internet-Based Front-End to Network Simulator.- Visualization of Grinding Processes.- Where Weather Meets the Eye A Case Study on a Wide Range of Meteorological Visualisations for Diverse Audiences.- Volume, Medical, & Molecular Visualization (Case Studies).- Parallel Ray Casting of Visible Human on Distributed Memory Architectures.- Exploring Instationary Fluid Flows by Interactive Volume Movies.- Analysis and Visualization of the Brain Shift Phenomenon in Neurosurgery.- Advances in Quality Control of Intraoperative Radiotherapy.- Visualization of Molecules with Positional Uncertainty.- Authors Index.- Color Plates.