This tutorial is provided to help people understand what is meant by scientific visualization and all it encompasses. Much of the information in here is not original. This site will be updated and modified shortly.

• What is Scientific Visualization?
• How to do Scientific Visualization
• Motivations
• Questions and Concerns
• Examples
• Definitions and terminology
  • Classification of techniques
  • Scientific Visualization Glossary
  • Image File Formats
• Techniques
  • • Information Visualization
    • Computer Simulation and Steering
  • Visual Pictures
  • Color Coding
  • Surface Rendering
  • • Dot Surface
    • Wire Frames
    • Polygonal Surface
    • Stacked Contour Maps
    • Ribbons and Streamers
    • Shaded Contour
    • Hedgehogs
    • Attribute Mapping
  • Volume Visualization
  • Volume Rendering Techniques
  • Data Types
  • Animation
• Applications
  • Interactivity
• Facilities
  • Parallel Rendering
  • Visualization Software
    • Graphics Libraries and Presentation Package
    • Turnkey Visualization Packages
    • Application Builders
  • Graphics Libraries and Presentation Packages
• Choosing Software
  • Choosing a visualization application package
  • Comparison of Visualization Packages
  • Further Analysis of Visualization Packages
• Output
  • Hardcopy
  • Video
  • CD-Rom
  • DVD
  • World Wide Web
• Other Uses
• In the Future

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