These proceedings contain the papers presented at VisSym '01, the third Joint Visuali zation Symposium of the Eurographics Association and the Technical Committee on Visualization and Graphics (TCVG) of the IEEE Computer Society. The symposium is being held from May 28 to May 30, 2001, in Ascona, Switzerland. The number of submitted papers has again increased to reach 68 this year and their high quality made it possible to extend the program to 33 presentations. VisSym has grown from a mostly European workshop to a visualization event of global signifi cance, which is best illustrated by the 13 contributions from outside Europe. We observed that the spectrum of topics has been quite stable over the last few years, with volume visualization, surface extraction, information visualization and vis ualization of vector fields and terrains as major areas of interest. A continuing trend ap pearing in many of these areas is the shift to multi-resolution techniques. Looking at applications, biomedical visualization is this year predominant, but also noticeable are the three automotive applications which could indicate rapidly growing interest in vis ualization in this area. We thank the Centro Stefano Franscini (CSF), Advanced Visual Systems Inc.

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This book contains 33 papers presented at the Third Joint Visualization Symposium of the Eurographics Association and the Technical Committee on Visualization and Graphics of the IEEE Computer Society. The main topics treated are: visualization of geoscience data; multi-resolution and adaptive techniques; unstructured data, multi-scale and visibility; flow visualization; biomedical applications; information visualization; object representation; volume rendering; information visualization applications; and automotive applications.

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Invited Speaker.- Visualization of Geoscience Data.- A Case Study in Multi-Sensory Investigation of Geoscientific Data.- Acquisition and Display of Real-Time Atmospheric Data on Terrain.- Multi-Resolution and Adaptive Techniques.- Extraction of Crack-free Isosurfaces from Adaptive Mesh Refinement Data.- Fast Multiresolution Extraction of Multiple Transparent Isosurfaces.- Multiresolution Maximum Intensity Volume Rendering by Morphological Pyramids.- Unstructured Data, Multi-Scale and Visibility.- Subdivision Surfaces for Scattered-data Approximation.- The Rendering of Unstructured Grids Revisited.- Nonlinear Diffusion in Graphics Hardware.- Voxel Column Culling: Occlusion Culling for Large Terrain Models.- Flow Visualization.- Stream Surface Generation for Fluid Flow Solutions on Curvilinear Grids.- Vector and Tensor Field Topology Simplification on Irregular Grids.- Topology-Based Visualization of Time-Dependent 2D Vector Fields.- Biomedical Applications.- Virtual Colon Flattening.- Improved visualization in virtual colonoscopy using image-based rendering.- Three-dimensional Reconstruction and Visualization of the Cerebral Cortex in Primates.- Interactive and Multi-modal Visualization for Neuroendoscopic Interventions.- Information Visualization.- Visualization of Generalized Voronoi Diagrams.- Preserving the Mental Map using Foresighted Layout.- Visualization of Directed Associations in E-Commerce Transaction Data.- Object Representation.- Space-Efficient Boundary Representation of Volumetric Objects.- Salient Representation of Volume Data.- A Selective Refinement Approach for Computing the Distance Functions of Curves.- Progressive View-Dependent Isosurface Propagation.- Volume Rendering.- A Hardware-Assisted Visibility-Ordering Algorithm With Applications To VolumeRendering.- Volume Rendering Data with Uncertainty Information.- Adaptive Volume Rendering using Fuzzy Logic Control.- I/O-Conscious Volume Rendering.- Information Visualization Applications.- Interacting with Stock Market Data in a Virtual Environment.- Case Study: Visualization and Information Retrieval Techniques for Network Intrusion Detection.- DDDiver: 3D Interactive Visualization of Entity Relationships.- Automotive Applications.- Visualization of Thermal Flows in an Automotive Cabin with Volume Rendering Method.- Automotive Soiling Simulation Based On Massive Particle Tracing.- Comparative Visualization of Instabilities in Crash-Worthiness Simulations.- Authors Index.- Color Plates.