Four-dimensional views of 3D scalar fields
Andrew J. Hanson, Pheng A. Heng · CERN Document Server (European Organization for Nuclear Research) · 1992
Scalar functions of three variables, w=f(x, y, z), are common in many types of scientific and medical applications. Such 3D scalar fields can be understood as elevation maps in four dimensions, with three independent variables (x, y, z) and a fourth, dependent, variable w that corresponds to the elevations. It is shown how techniques developed originally for the display of 3-manifolds in 4D Euclidean space can be adapted to visualize 3D scalar fields in a variety of ways. >