Visualization Using a Data Flow-Based Paradigm

Conference · Mon Mar 11 04:00:00 EST 1991

OSTI ID:5632839

Bethel, Wes ^[1]; Johnston, Nancy ^[1]; Holmes, Harvard ^[1]

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1. Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory (LBL), Berkeley, CA (United States)

A new computer data analysis and display technology has become available to the scientific community. This technology is the result of the conjunction of recent advances in computer graphics (in surface lighting and shading, object oriented three dimensional hierarchical geometry structures, and volume data rendering techniques); window systems (the wide acceptance of the X window system); user interfaces (the visual programming paradigm); software engineering techniques (the data flow based visualization concept); and affordable, high performance graphics workstations that support this software. At Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, we have made extensive use of Stardent Computer's Application Visualization System, a prime example of such a visualization tool, on data from a wide cross-section of scientific disciplines, including Particle Physics, Earth Sciences, Mathematics, Research Medicine and the Human Genome Center.

• Research Organization: Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory (LBL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP); USDOE Office of Science (SC), Nuclear Physics (NP)
• DOE Contract Number: AC03-76SF00098
• OSTI ID: 5632839
• Report Number(s): LBL--30412; CONF-910373--13; ON: DE91013851
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

97 MATHEMATICS AND COMPUTING
99 GENERAL AND MISCELLANEOUS
990200* -- Mathematics & Computers
COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE
COMPUTER GRAPHICS
COMPUTER OUTPUT DEVICES
COMPUTER-GRAPHICS DEVICES
DATA-FLOW PROCESSING
DISPLAY DEVICES
INTERACTIVE DISPLAY DEVICES
PROGRAMMING