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The visualization handbook /

The Visualization Handbook provides an overview of the field of visualization by presenting the basic concepts, providing a snapshot of current visualization software systems, and examining research topics that are advancing the field. This text is intended for a broad audience, including not only t...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Hansen, Charles D., Johnson, Chris R.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Burlington, MA : Elsevier Butterworth-Heinemann, ©2005.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • PART I. Introduction
  • 1. Overview of Visualization / William J. Schroeder and Kenneth M. Martin
  • PART II. Scalar Field Visualization : Isosurfaces
  • 2. Accelerated Isosurface Extraction Approaches / Yarden Livnat
  • 3. Time-Dependent Isosurface Extraction / Han-Wei Shen
  • 4. Optimal Isosurface Extraction / Paolo Cignoni [and others]
  • 5. Isosurface Extraction Using Extrema Graphs / Takayuki Itoh and Koji Koyamada
  • 6. Isosurfaces and Level-Sets / Ross T. Whitaker
  • PART III. Scalar Field Visualization : Volume Rendering
  • 7. Overview of Volume Rendering / Arie Kaufman and Klaus Mueller
  • 8. Volume Rendering Using Splatting / Roger Crawfis, Daqing Xue, and Caixia Zhang
  • 9. Multidimensional Transfer Functions for Volume Rendering / Joe Kniss, Gordon Kindlmann, and Charles D. Hansen
  • 10. Pre-Integrated Volume Rendering / Martin Kraus and Thomas Ertl
  • 11. Hardware-Accelerated Volume Rendering / Hanspeter Pfister
  • PART IV. Vector Field Visualization
  • 12. Overview of Flow Visualization / Daniel Weiskopf and Gordon Erlebacher
  • 13. Flow Textures : High-Resolution Flow Visualization / Gordon Erlebacher, Bruno Jobard, and Daniel Weiskopf
  • 14. Detection and Visualization of Vortices / Ming Jiang, Raghu Machiraju, and David Thompson
  • PART V. Tensor Field Visualization
  • 15. Oriented Tensor Reconstruction / Leonid Zhukov and Alan H. Barr
  • 16. Diffusion Tensor MRI Visualization / Song Zhang, David H. Laidlaw, and Gordon Kindlmann
  • 17. Topological Methods for Flow Visualization / Gerik Scheuermann and Xavier Tricoche
  • PART VI. Geometric Modeling for Visualization
  • 18. 3D Mesh Compression / Jarek Rossignac
  • 19. Variational Modeling Methods for Visualization / Hans Hagen and Ingrid Hotz
  • 20. Model Simplification / Jonathan D. Cohen and Dinesh Manocha
  • PART VII. Virtual Environments for Visualization
  • 21. Direct Manipulation in Virtual Reality / Steve Bryson
  • 22. The Visual Haptic Workbench / Milan Ikits and J. Dean Brederson
  • 23. Virtual Geographic Information Systems / William Ribarsky
  • 24. Visualization Using Virtual Reality / R. Bowen Loftin, Jim X. Chen, and Larry Rosenblum
  • PART VIII. Large-Scale Data Visualization
  • 25. Desktop Delivery : Access to Large Datasets / Philip D. Heermann and Constantine Pavlakos
  • 26. Techniques for Visualizing Time-Varying Volume Data / Kwan-Liu Ma and Eric B. Lum
  • 27. Large-Scale Data Visualization and Rendering : A Problem-Driven Approach / Patrick McCormick and James Ahrens
  • 28. Issues and Architectures in Large-Scale Data Visualization / Constantine Pavlakos and Philip D. Heermann
  • 29. Consuming Network Bandwidth with Visapult / Wes Bethel and John Shalf
  • PART IX. Visualization Software and Frameworks
  • 30. The Visualization Toolkit / William J. Schroeder and Kenneth M. Martin
  • 31. Visualization in the SCIRun Problem-Solving Environment / David M. Weinstein [and others]
  • 32. NAGs Iris Explorer / Jeremy Walton
  • 33. AVS and AVS/Express / Jean M. Favre and Mario Valle
  • 34. Vis5D, Cave5D, and VisAD / Bill Hibbard
  • 35. Visualization with AVS / W.T. Hewitt [and others]
  • 36. ParaView : An End-User Tool for Large-Data Visualization / James Ahrens, Berk Geveci, and Charles Law
  • 37. The Insight Toolkit: An Open-Source Initiative in Data Segmentation and Registration / Terry S. Yoo
  • 38. amira: A Highly Interactive System for Visual Data Analysis / Detlev Stalling, Malte Westerhoff, and Hans-Christian Hege
  • PART X. Perceptual Issues in Visualization
  • 39. Extending Visualization to Perceptualization : The Importance of Perception in Effective Communication of Information / David S. Ebert
  • 40. Art and Science in Visualization / Victoria Interrante
  • 41. Exploiting Human Visual Perception in Visualization / Alan Chalmers and Kirsten Cater
  • PART XI. Selected Topics and Applications
  • 42. Scalable Network Visualization / Stephen G. Eick
  • 43. Visual Data-Mining Techniques / Daniel A. Keim, Mike Sips, and Mihael Ankerst
  • 44. Visualization in Weather and Climate Research / Don Middleton, Tim Scheitlin, and Bob Wilhelmson
  • 45. Painting and Visualization / Robert M. Kirby, Daniel F. Keefe, and David H. Laidlaw
  • 46. Visualization and Natural Control Systems for Microscopy / Russell M. Taylor II [and others]
  • 47. Visualization for Computational Accelerator Physics / Kwan-Liu Ma, Greg Schussman, and Brett Wilson.