Informing the design of pipeline-based software visualisations

Conferences in Research and Practice in Information Technology Series

Volumn 45, Issue , 2005, Pages 59-68

  Churcher, Neville ^a   Irwin, Warwick ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DESIGN PROCESS; PIPELINE COMPONENT; SOFTWARE VISUALISATION; VISUAL OUTPUTS; VISUALISATIONS;

COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; DESIGN; PIPELINES; TOOLS;

VISUALIZATION;

EID: 84883585103     PISSN: 14451336     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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