Scientific Visualization Of Physical Phenomena

Author : Nicholas M. Patrikalakis
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 669 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9784431681595

Get Book

Scientific Visualization of Physical Phenomena by Nicholas M. Patrikalakis Pdf

Scientific Visualization of Physical Phenomena reflects the special emphasis of the Computer Graphics Society's Ninth International Conference, held at the MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA in June, 1991. This volume contains the proceedings of the conference, which, since its foundation in 1983, continues to attract high quality research articles in all aspects of Computer Graphics and its applications. Visualization in science and engineering is rapidly developing into a vital area because of its potential for significantly contributing to the understanding of physical processes and the design automation of man-made systems. With the increasing emphasis in handling complicated physical and artificial processes and systems and with continuing advances in specialized graphics hardware and processing software and algorithms, visualization is expected to play an increasingly dominant role in the foreseeable future.

Author : Ν. Μ Πατρικαλάκης
Publisher : Springer Verlag
Page : 690 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Science
ISBN : 0387700811

Get Book

Scientific Visualization of Physical Phenomena by Ν. Μ Πατρικαλάκης Pdf

Author : Nicholas M Patrikalakis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 704 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1991-07-25
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 4431681604

Get Book

Scientific Visualization of Physical Phenomena by Nicholas M Patrikalakis Pdf

Author : Rae Earnshaw,Norman Wiseman
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783642581014

Get Book

An Introductory Guide to Scientific Visualization by Rae Earnshaw,Norman Wiseman Pdf

Scientific visualization is concerned with exploring data and information insuch a way as to gain understanding and insight into the data. This is a fundamental objective of much scientific investigation. To achieve this goal, scientific visualization utilises aspects in the areas of computergraphics, user-interface methodology, image processing, system design, and signal processing. This volume is intended for readers new to the field and who require a quick and easy-to-read summary of what scientific visualization is and what it can do. Written in a popular andjournalistic style with many illustrations it will enable readers to appreciate the benefits of scientific visualization and how current tools can be exploited in many application areas. This volume is indispensible for scientists and research workers who have never used computer graphics or other visual tools before, and who wish to find out the benefitsand advantages of the new approaches.

Author : Tosiyasu L. Kunii,Yoshihisa Shinagawa
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9784431682073

Get Book

Modern Geometric Computing for Visualization by Tosiyasu L. Kunii,Yoshihisa Shinagawa Pdf

This volume is on "modem geometric computing for visualization" which is at the forefront of multi-disciplinary advanced research areas. This area is attracting intensive research interest across many application fields: singularity in cosmology, turbulence in ocean engineering, high energy physics, molecular dynamics, environmental problems, modem mathe matics, computer graphics, and pattern recognition. Visualization re quires the computation of displayable shapes which are becoming more and more complex in proportion to the complexity of the objects and phenomena visualized. Fast computation requires information locality. Attaining information locality is achieved through characterizing the shapes in geometry and topology, and the large amount of computation required through the use of supercomputers. This volume contains the initial results of our efforts to satisfy these re quirements by inviting experts and selecting new research works through review processes. To be more specific, this book presents the proceedings of the International Workshop on Modem Geometric Computing for Visualization held at Kogakuin University, Tokyo, Japan, June 29-30, 1992 organized by the Computer Graphics Society, Japan Personal Com puter Software Association, Kogakuin University, and the Department of Information Science, Faculty of Science, The University of Tokyo. We received extremely high-quality papers for review from five different countries, one from Australia, one from Italy, four from Japan, one from Singapore and three from the United States, and we accepted eight papers and rejected two.

Author : Hans Hagen,Heinrich Müller,Gregory M. Nielson
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783642771651

Get Book

Focus on Scientific Visualization by Hans Hagen,Heinrich Müller,Gregory M. Nielson Pdf

One of the important issues of Scientific Visualization is the utilization of the broad bandwidth of the human sensory system in steering and interpreting complex processes and simulations involving voluminous data sets across diverse scientific disciplines. This book presents the state-of-the-art in visualization techniques both as an overview for the inquiring scientist, and as a solid platform from which developers may extend existing techniques or devise new ones to meet the specific needs of their problems. A secondary goal in crafting this volume has been to provide a vehicle for teaching of state-of-the-art techniques in scientific visualization. The first part of the book covers the application areas fluid flow visualization in medicine, and environmental protection. The second set of chapters explain fundamentals of scientific visualization. It comprises contributions on data structuring and data administration, data modeling, and rendering. A final section is devoted to auditory representation of scientific data.

Author : Wilfrid Lefer,Michel Grave
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2013-12-01
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783709168769

Get Book

Visualization in Scientific Computing ’97 by Wilfrid Lefer,Michel Grave Pdf

Visualization is now recognized as a powerful approach to get insight in large datasets produced by scientific experimentations and simulations. The contributions to this book cover technical aspects as well as concrete applications of visualization in various domains such as finance, physics, astronomy and medicine, providing researchers and engineers with valuable information for setting up new powerful environments.

Author : K.W. Brodlie,L.A. Carpenter,R.A. Earnshaw,J.R. Gallop,R.J. Hubbold,A.M. Mumford,C.D. Osland,P. Quarendon
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783642769429

Get Book

Scientific Visualization by K.W. Brodlie,L.A. Carpenter,R.A. Earnshaw,J.R. Gallop,R.J. Hubbold,A.M. Mumford,C.D. Osland,P. Quarendon Pdf

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.

Author : John K. Gilbert
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2006-03-30
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781402036132

Get Book

Visualization in Science Education by John K. Gilbert Pdf

This book addresses key issues concerning visualization in the teaching and learning of science at any level in educational systems. It is the first book specifically on visualization in science education. The book draws on the insights from cognitive psychology, science, and education, by experts from five countries. It unites these with the practice of science education, particularly the ever-increasing use of computer-managed modelling packages.

Author : Linda M. Phillips,Stephen P. Norris,John S. Macnab
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2010-09-02
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789048188161

Get Book

Visualization in Mathematics, Reading and Science Education by Linda M. Phillips,Stephen P. Norris,John S. Macnab Pdf

Science education at school level worldwide faces three perennial problems that have become more pressing of late. These are to a considerable extent interwoven with concerns about the entire school curriculum and its reception by students. The rst problem is the increasing intellectual isolation of science from the other subjects in the school curriculum. Science is too often still taught didactically as a collection of pre-determined truths about which there can be no dispute. As a con- quence, many students do not feel any “ownership” of these ideas. Most other school subjects do somewhat better in these regards. For example, in language classes, s- dents suggest different interpretations of a text and then debate the relative merits of the cases being put forward. Moreover, ideas that are of use in science are presented to students elsewhere and then re-taught, often using different terminology, in s- ence. For example, algebra is taught in terms of “x, y, z” in mathematics classes, but students are later unable to see the relevance of that to the meaning of the universal gas laws in physics, where “p, v, t” are used. The result is that students are c- fused and too often alienated, leading to their failure to achieve that “extraction of an education from a scheme of instruction” which Jerome Bruner thought so highly desirable.

Author : Frits H. Post,Andrea J.S. Hin
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783642773341

Get Book

Advances in Scientific Visualization by Frits H. Post,Andrea J.S. Hin Pdf

Scientific visualization is a new and rapidly growing area in which efforts from computer graphics research and many scientific and engineering disciplines are integrated. Its aim is to enhance interpretation and understanding by scientists of large amounts of data from measurements or complex computer simulations, using computer generated images and animation sequences. It exploits the power of human visual perception to identify trends and structures, and recognize shapes and patterns. Development of new numerical simulation methods in many areas increasingly depends on visualization as an effective way to obtain an intuitive understanding of a problem. This book contains a selection of papers presented at the second Eurographics workshop on Visualization in Scientific Computing, held in Delft, the Netherlands, in April 1991. Theissues addressed are visualization tool and system design, new presentation techniques for volume data and vector fields, and numerous case studies in scientific visualization. Application areas include geology, medicine, fluid dynamics, molecular science, and environmental protection. The book will interest researchers and students in computer graphics and scientists from many disciplines interested in recent results in visual data analysis and presentation. It reflects the state of the art in visualization research and shows a wide variety of experimental systems and imaginative applications.

Author : Martin Göbel,Jose C. Teixeira
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783642778117

Get Book

Graphics Modeling and Visualization in Science and Technology by Martin Göbel,Jose C. Teixeira Pdf

The book reports on a workshop on Graphics Modeling and Visualization in scientific, engineering and technical applications. Visualization is known as the key technology to control massive data sets and to achieve insight into these tera bytes of data. Graphics Modeling is the enabling technology for advanced interaction. The papers report on applied visualization or basic research in modeling and visualization. Applications - using commercial or experimental visualization tools - cover the following fields: engineering and design, environmental research, material science, computational sciences, fluid dynamics and algorithmic visualization.

Author : Constantine Stephanidis,Margherita Antona
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2019-09-19
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783030307127

Get Book

HCI International 2019 – Late Breaking Posters by Constantine Stephanidis,Margherita Antona Pdf

This book constitutes the extended abstracts of the posters presented during the 21st International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCII 2019, which took place in Orlando, Florida, in July 2019. The total of 1274 papers and 209 posters included in the 35 HCII 2019 proceedings volumes was carefully reviewed and selected from 5029 submissions. The 55 papers presented in this volume are organized in topical sections as follows: interaction design; cognitive issues in HCI; accessibility and universal access; learning and games; HCI in health and rehabilitation; HCI in business and society; big data, machine learning and visual analytics; and user studies.

Author : Chaomei Chen
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2006-10-23
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781846285790

Get Book

Information Visualization by Chaomei Chen Pdf

Information visualization is not only about creating graphical displays of complex and latent information structures. It also contributes to a broader range of cognitive, social, and collaborative activities. This is the first book to examine information visualization from this perspective. This 2nd edition continues the unique and ambitious quest for setting information visualization and virtual environments in a unifying framework. It pays special attention to the advances made over the last 5 years and potentially fruitful directions to pursue. It is particularly updated to meet the need for practitioners. The book is a valuable source for researchers and graduate students.

Author : T Caelli,P Lam,H Bunke
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1997-08-27
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9789814497923

Get Book

Spatial Computing: Issues in Vision, Multimedia and Visualization Technologies by T Caelli,P Lam,H Bunke Pdf

This book is the result of a special workshop on Spatial Computing which brought together experts in computer vision, visualization, multimedia and geographic information systems to discuss common problems and applications. The common theme of the workshop was the need to integrate human perception and domain knowledge with developing representations and solutions to problems which necessarily involve the interpretation of sensed data. The overwhelming conclusion was that these different areas of spatial computing should be communicating more than is done at present and that such workshops and publications would help this process. Contents:Foreword (T Caelli et al.)Bayesian Paradigms in Image Processing (Z-Q Liu)Robot Navigation by Visual Dead-Reckoning: Inspiration From Insects (M V Srinivasan et al.)Assessing Feature Importance in the Context of Object Recognition (G A W West)Geometric Variations: Analysis, Optimisation and Control (B T Daniel et al.)Using Aspect Graphs to Control the Recovery and Tracking of Deformable Models (S J Dickinson & D Metaxas)The Role of Machine Learning in Building Image Interpretation Systems (T Caelli & W F Bischof)Recent Advances in Graph Matching (H Bunke & B T Messmer)Cooperative Spatial Reasoning for Image Understanding (T Matsuyama & T Wada)Human Understanding Limits in Visualization (A J Maeder)A Strategy and Architecture for the Visualisation of Complex Geographical Datasets (M Gahegan & D O'Bien)Visualizing Spatial Data: The Problem of Paradigms (P K Robertson)The Visitors Guide: A Simple Video Reuse Application (K Shearer et al.)Conceptual Representation for Multimedia Information (R W Smith et al.) Readership: Computer scientists. keywords:Machine Learning and Vision;Visualization;Geograpgic Information Systems;Object Recognition;Surveillance;Multimedia;Image Understanding