Interactive Scientific Visualisation A Position Paper

This paper summarises the author's views on current developments in interactive scientific visualisation. It is based on a talk presented at the Eurographics '89 conference, held in Hamburg in September 1989. The paper takes issue with the direction of some current work and identifies areas where new ideas are needed. It has three main sections: data presentation methods, current visualisation system architectures, and a new approach based on parallel processing. 1 Introduction The upsurge of interest in visualisation was given a major impetus by a report prepared for the National Science Foundation in the USA (the ViSC report) [16]. The main thrust of this was to examine how the USA could remain competitive in this area, and therefore what research should be funded by the government. A major problem identified was how researchers could assimilate the truly vast amounts of data being poured out by supercomputers --- what the report termed "firehoses of data". The report recommended a s..

A study of force fields for user navigation in virtual environments

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