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Using Vis5D Using Vis5d+ to Visualize Five Dimensional Data on a Three Dimensional Grid Prepared for: Carmen Benkovitz By: Ron Huegel August 10, 2002 Introduction
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Using Vis5d+ to Visualize Five Dimensional Data on a Three Dimensional Grid
Prepared for: Carmen Benkovitz
By: Ron Huegel
August 10, 2002
Introduction
Data visualization is a technique for visually exploring physical (temperature, pressure, viscosity, etc.) processes in science and engineering. The development of efficient visualization software tools and techniques (algorithms) continues to be an active area of research. Computers continue to grow in speed, memory, and functionality in accordance with Moore's Law, which states "chip density (roughly) doubles every eighteen months" (Boyd). This fact should suggest that the software used by computers must grow at a proportional pace. Moore's Law has held true for over twenty years despite skepticism from some physicists. There is no law or equation governing the growth of software; however, the graphics capabilities of PC's and video games have grown rapidly over the past several years.
Software programs are a very necessary component of any experiment in modern day science. Without any way of reading and displaying data, science would slow to an absolute crawl. There are currently countless numbers of software programs available on the open market, and there are also many programs that can be downloaded from the Internet at no cost. These cost-free downloads are known as "open source" software.
Open source is not a well-supported means by which to operate a software package. Much of the time software that is open to the public is left unsupported or poorly supported by the author or authors. Then again, much of the software that we buy in the stores is not very well supported either. That is not to say that open source is not quality software. There are plenty of high quality programs ready to be downloaded from the Internet. Sometimes the people currently using the program may even support a software package by...
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