Visualization of large, multidimensional multivariate data sets. Phase 1

Technical Report · Tue Sep 01 00:00:00 EDT 1987

OSTI ID:7097350

Lucas, R D; Mills, K; Kim, Y

The project establishes the technical feasibility of a visualization workstation for very large data sets. The Phase 1 system consists of an IBM PC/AT with 2 Mbytes of expanded memory, frame buffer, and write-once optical disk drive. The latter provides random access to 200 Mbytes on a removable medium. Data from a supercomputer (or from any process, such as an experiment, that generates voluminous data in matrix form) can be written to this medium and easily transported (e.g., mailed) to the user's worksite. Software has been developed that will afford the user interactive visual access to these data in the form of orthogonal sections and contour surface renderings. Strategies for displaying multi-variate three-dimensional data and for producing interactive animated displays of data in three-dimensions plus time are developed.

• Research Organization: Northwest Research Associates, Inc., Bellevue, WA (United States)
• OSTI ID: 7097350
• Report Number(s): PB-93-138758/XAB; NWRA-CR-87-R013; CNN: NSF-ISI-8660682
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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