amira: A Highly Interactive System for Visual Data Analysis
DETLEV STALLING, MALTE WESTERHOFF and HANS-CHRISTIAN HEGE, Zuse Institute Berlin
38.1 Introduction
What characteristics should a good visualization system hold? What kinds of data should it support? What capabilities should it provide? Of course, the answers depend on the particular task and application. For some users a visualization system may be nothing more than a simple image viewer or plotting program. For others, it is integrated software dedicated to their personal field of work, such as a computer algebra program or a finite-element simulation system. While in such integrated systems visualization is usually just an add-on, there are also many specialized systems ...
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