Chapter 3 Analysis Data for Visualization

Marks. Shephard and William J. Schroeder

MODERN ANALYSIS AND design is based upon complex numerical modeling techniques. These techniques typically decompose a problem into many smaller pieces, and then solve the simpler but much larger problem on a computer. The results of such analysis, however, generate such large data size as to be nearly incomprehensible. To address this problem, engineers and scientists have turned to visualization. In this chapter we present an overview of engineering analysis techniques, and describe the forms of data that might be expected from such analysis.

3.1 Introduction

The goal of visualizing engineering analysis is an improved understanding of the results of the ...

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