Vis5D, Cave5D, and VisAD
BILL HIBBARD, University of Wisconsin
34.1 Introduction
The Space Science and Engineering Center (SSEC) Visualization Project focuses on making advanced visualization techniques useful to scientists in their daily work. We accomplish this goal by making three scientific visualization systems (Vis5D, Cave5D, and VisAD) freely available over the Internet, and by using these systems as test beds for exploring and evaluating new techniques. It is important to distinguish between scientists who use advanced visualization techniques in their daily work and those who use them to create demos [11]. Use in ordinary work is the true measure of utility—demos often focus only on techniques that are merely new and dramatic ...
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