Energy and Technology Review, January--February 1990
A.K. Burnham, Bruno Cabral · OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information) · 1990
This issue of Energy and Technology Review describes a number of the Laboratory's efforts and achievements in computerized scientific visualization. Each article describes a different visualization software and hardware system. The systems all share the common goal of relaying complex numerical information to scientists in a readily comprehensible form. They differ in two significant ways --- how they render or generate the images, and the operational environment in which they function. The image-rendering technique chosen is usually determined by the desired quality, type, and cost of the images. The operating environment (e.g., the speed with which images must be generated, whether they are used locally or must be sent to remote locations) governs the level of image detail, the range of colors used, and other such characteristics. These constraints greatly influence the overall design of a visualization system. 49 figs.