Master's Thesis - Studierstube Augmented Reality Project - Graz ...

2.1 Technical Visualization
Figure 2.2: We could identify some fields of technical visualization sorted from 1D
to nD data and from red to purple. We have centered the largest and oldest part of
visualization which is suitable for all sciences but mostly restricted to 1D. Then we
added other fields of research outwards, depending on the data-dimensionality these
sciences are used to. The content of this thesis is marked with a red cross which
is located approximately at the lower left outer green-to-purple border of ”Medical
sciences”.
Figure 2.3: This table provides and ordering concept for scientific visualization by
means of their underlying kind of data structure and the number of independent variables.
The actions considered in this thesis are marked with the green and the turquoise
bar since the basic data structure for the measured flow data are multidimensional, respectively
three-dimensional vectors and the number of independent variables is four.
This table was taken from [Tory2004]
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