Visualization of Multi-Variate Scientific Data

Computer Graphics Forum

Volumn 28, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1670-1690

  Fuchs, R ^a,b   Hauser, H ^b,c  

^a VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^b Research Center in Vienna   (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

Multi dimensional data; Multi variate data visualization; Scientific visualization; Visualization

Indexed keywords

FLOW VISUALIZATION; VISUALIZATION;

COMPLEX DATASETS; HYBRID APPROACH; MULTIDIMENSIONAL DATA; SCIENTIFIC DATA; SPECIFIC PROBLEMS; STATE OF THE ART; VISUALIZATION PIPELINE; VISUALIZATION RESEARCH;

DATA VISUALIZATION;

EID: 70349202507     PISSN: 01677055     EISSN: 14678659     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8659.2009.01429.x     Document Type: Article

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