Scientific Visualization: Techniques and Applications - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 3540545654 ISBN 13: 9783540545651

Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K, 1992

Synopsis

Background A group of UKexperts on Scientific Visualization and its associated applications gathered at The Cosener's House in Abingdon, Oxford- shire (UK) in February 1991 to consider all aspects of scientific visualization and to produce a number of documents: * a detailed summary of current knowledge, techniques and appli- cations in the field (this book); * an Introductory Guide to Visualization that could be widely dis- tributed to the UK academic community as an encouragement to use visualization techniques and tools in their work; * a Management Report (to the UK Advisory Group On Computer Graphics - AGOCG) documenting the principal results of the workshop and making recommendations as appropriate. This book proposes a framework through which scientific visualiza- tion systems may be understood and their capabilities described. It then provides overviews of the techniques, data facilities and human-computer interface that are required in a scientific visualiza- tion system. The ways in which scientific visualization has been applied to a wide range of applications is reviewed and the available products that are scientific visualization systems or contribute to sci- entific visualization systems are described. The book is completed by a comprehensive bibliography of literature relevant to scientific visualization and a glossary of terms. VI Scientific Visualization Acknowledgements This book was predominantly written during the workshop in Abingdon. The participants started from an "input document" pro- duced by Ken Brodlie, Lesley Ann Carpenter, Rae Earnshaw, Julian Gallop (with Janet Haswell), Chris Osland and Peter Quarendon.

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Synopsis

This reference guide represents a consideration, for the scientific community, of the technical aspects of scientific visualization. Topics covered include framework, visualization techniques, data facilities, the human-computer interface, applications and products. The introduction offers an overview of recent developments; other sections of the text address the exploration of data and information in such a way as to gain greater insight into the data. To achieve this, scientific visualization utilizes aspects of computer graphics, use-interface methodology, image processing, system design and signal processing. The material contained in the book is suitable for visualization tool-makers and for those involved in designing the next generation of systems. The range of applications addressed provides users and developers with useful information on the current potential of scientific visualization systems.

Edition details

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K
• Publication date: 1992
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3540545654
• ISBN 13: 9783540545651
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 309
• Editor: Brodlie K. W., Carpenter L. A., Earnshaw R. A., Gallop J. R., Hubbold R. J., Mumford Anne M., Osland C. D., Quarendon P.