One of the greatest scientific challenges of the 21<SUP>st century is how to master, organize and extract useful knowledge from the overwhelming flow of information made available by today’s data acquisition systems and computing resources. Visualization is the premium means of taking up this challenge. This book is based on selected lectures given by leading experts in scientific visualization during a workshop held at Schloss Dagstuhl, Germany. Topics include user issues in visualization, large data visualization, unstructured mesh processing for visualization, volumetric visualization, flow visualization, medical visualization and visualization systems. The book contains more than 350 color illustrations.
Mathematics and Visualization Series Editors Gerald Farin Hans-Christian Hege David Hoffman Christopher R. Johnson Konrad Polthier Martin Rumpf
Georges-Pierre Bonneau Thomas Ertl Gregory M. Nielson Editors
Scientific Visualization: The Visual Extraction of Knowledge from Data With 228 Figures
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Universite Grenoble I Lab. LMC-IMAG BP 53, 38041 Grenoble CX 9 France E-mail:
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Department of Computer Science and Engineering Ira A. Fulton School of Engineering Arizona State University Tempe, AZ 85287-8809 USA E-mail:
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Thomas Ertl University of Stuttgart Visualization and Interactive Systems Institute (VIS) Universitätßtraße 38 70569 Stuttgart Germany E-mail: