An extended data-flow architecture for data analysis and visualization
Gregory D. Abram, Lloyd A. Treinish · ACM SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics · 1995
Visual Programming and Data-Flow ExecutionCameron [2] introdu, es modular visualization environments and /he motivation behind employing the data-flow paradigm and visual programming.In a tr~.~. data-flow implementation, all modules are pure functions.Hence, processes are stateh, ss with no side-effects (Arvind and Brobst [l I).Consider Figure , a visual program that imports data, compl tes both an isosurface and a planar mapping and renders the results in a single image.Iff agine a set of available processes waiting fo' their inputs from the processes upstream i l the network or asynchronously from ass(