Visual3 - Interactive unsteady unstructured 3D visualization
Robert Haimes, Michael B. Giles · 29th Aerospace Sciences Meeting · 1991
A new graphics package has been developed for the visualization of three-dimensional engineering and scientific data. Unlike existing packages, it can handle a wide variety of structured and unstructured grids, and deals with generic scalar and vector data, making it suitable for a wide range of physical applications. An important feature of the package is the ability to view unsteady data in either post-processing or co-processing modes. 1 Introduction The field of scientific visualization is young. PLOT3D [1], the first major visualization program for three-dimensional CFD results, was developed approximately five years ago, shortly after the introduction of the Silicon Graphics Iris graphics workstations with dedicated hardware for the rapid manipulation of three-dimensional objects. At the time, block-structured grids and flow solvers were the standard for three-dimensional calculations, and so PLOT3D was designed to handle just this one data type. Similarly, the hardware at the t...