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Part I Basics of Scientific Visualization |
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Chapter 1 Introduction and Background |
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Chapter 2 What Scientific Visualization can do! |
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2.1 What is Scientific Visualization? |
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2.2 How to do Scientific Visualization |
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2.3 Some Examples of Scientific Visualization |
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2.3.1 The March of Napoleon's Army |
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2.3.3 Weather Maps from Meteorology |
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2.3.5 Pelvic Reconstruction |
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2.3.7 Designing Ship Propellors |
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2.3.8 Visualization of Forest Growth |
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Chapter 3 Explanation of Scientific Visualization Terminology |
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3.3.1 Overview of Facilities |
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3.4 Current Application Areas |
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3.4.4 Archeological Reconstruction |
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3.4.8 Computational Fluid Dynamics |
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Chapter 4 Facilities for Scientific Visualization |
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4.1 Visualization Software Categories |
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4.1.1 Graphics Libraries and Presentation Packages |
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4.1.2 Turnkey Visualization Applications |
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4.1.3 Application Builders |
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4.2.1 Subroutine Libraries and Presentation Packages |
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4.2.2 Turnkey Visualization Systems |
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4.2.3 Application Builders |
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4.3 Hardware Considerations (including Hardcopy) |
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4.4 Vendor Systems Versus Public Domain Systems |
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Chapter 5 Outputting Results |
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Chapter 6 Current Developments and Activities |
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Part II Overview of Current Systems and Developments |
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Chapter 7 Current Vendor Systems in Use |
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7.1 Wavefront Technologies, Inc |
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7.3 Precision Visuals, Inc |
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7.4 Stardent Computer, Inc |
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7.5 Silicon Graphics, Inc |
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7.6 Sun Microsystems, Inc |
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7.6.1 SunVision - Sun's Visualization Software Package |
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7.6.2 SunVision Programming Interfaces |
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7.6.3 SunVision Window-based Tools |
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7.6.4 The VX and MVX - Sun's Visualization Accelerators |
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7.7 Sterling Federal Systems, Inc |
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7.7.1 FAST (Flow Analysis Software Toolkit) |
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7.10 LightWork Design Ltd |
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Chapter 8 Current Public Domain Systems in Use |
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8.1.2 Subsystem Component Descriptions |
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8.1.3 Current Status of Khoros |
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8.2 apE: A Dataflow Toolkit for Scientific Visualization |
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8.3 National Center for Super-computing Applications (NCSA) |
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8.4 GPLOT, DRAWCGM, P3D (Pittsburgh Supercomputer Center) |
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8.4.1 The GPLOT CGM Interpreter |
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8.4.2 The DrawCGM Graphics Subroutine Library |
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8.4.3 The P3D Three-Dimensional Metafile Project |
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8.4.4 Software Availability |
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8.6.3 Graphics Animation System (GAS) |
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8.6.4 Applications in Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) |
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Chapter 9 Other Uses of Visualization Tools |
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9.2 The 5th Dimension Animation System |
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9.3 Multimedia Environments |
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10.1 Strategic Importance of Scientific Visualization |
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10.2 Current Developments |
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10.3 More User-Friendly Facilities |
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References |
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Sources of Figures |
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