The Application Visualization System: A Computational Environment for Scientific Visualization

IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 1989, Pages 30-42

  Upson, Craig ^a   Faulhaber, Thomas ^a   Kamins, David ^a   Laidlaw, David ^a   Schlegel, David ^a   Vroom, Jeffrey ^a   Gurwitz, Robert ^a   Van Dam, Andries ^a  

^a Stellar Computer ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED ENGINEERING; DATA PROCESSING--NATURAL SCIENCES APPLICATIONS;

APPLICATION VISUALIZATION SYSTEM (AVS); AVS USER INTERFACE; SCIENTIFIC VISUALIZATION; VISUAL PROGRAMMING INTERFACE;

COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

EID: 0024700676     PISSN: 02721716     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/38.31462     Document Type: Article

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