Visualization in Scientific Computing

This volume gives a selection of contributions to the first workshop of the Eurographics Working Group on Visualization in Scientific Computing. It has five parts: general requirements; formal models, standards, and distributed graphics; applications; rendering techniques; and interaction.

Klappentext

Visualization in scientific computing is getting more andmore attention from many people. Especially in relation withthe fast increase in computingpower, graphic tools arerequired in many cases for interpreting and presenting theresults of various simulations, or for analyzing physicalphenomena.This volume contains 18 papers selected from the 26 paperspresented at the first workshop organized by theEurographics Working Group on Visualization in ScientificComputing, held in France in 1991. The workshop includedsessions on the specific needs for visualizationincomputational sciences, the importance and difficulties ofusing standards in visualization software, reference modelsand distributed graphics systems, application systems,methods for representing 2D or 3D scalar fields and volumerendering, and user-computer interactions. The papers in thevolume are organized into five parts: general requirements;formal models, standards, and distributed graphics;applications; rendering techniques; and interaction.

Inhalt
I General Requirements.- 1 Scientific Visualization in a Supercomputer Network.- 2 Visualization Services in Large Scientific Computing Centres.- 3 The Visualisation of Numerical Computation.- II Formal Models, Standards and Distributed Graphics.- 4 Performance Evaluation of Portable Graphics Software and Hardware for Scientific Visualization.- 5 Visualization of Scientific Data for High Energy Physics: Basic Architecture and a Case Study.- 6 The IRIDIUM Project: Post-Processing and Distributed Graphics.- 7 Towards a Reference Model for Scientific Visualization Systems.- 8 Interactive Scientific Visualisation: A Position Paper.- III Applications.- 9 HIGHEND A Visualisation System for 3D Data with Special Support for Postprocessing of Fluid Dynamics Data.- 10 Supercomputing Visualization Systems for Scientific Data Analysis and Their Applications to Meteorology.- IV Rendering Techniques.- 11 Rendering Lines on Curved Surfaces.- 12 Interactive 3D Display of Simulated Sedimentary Basins.- 13 Visualization of 3D Scalar Fields Using Ray Casting.- 14 Volume Rendering and Data Feature Enhancement.- 15 Visualization of 3D Empirical Data: The Voxel Processor.- 16 Spatial Editing for Interactive Inspection of Voxel Models.- V Interaction.- 17 The Rotating Cube: Interactive Specification of Viewing for Volume Visualization.- 18 Chameleon: A Holistic Approach to Visualisation.- Colour Plates (see list on p. XII).- List of Authors.