MegaMol - A prototyping framework for particle-based visualization

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 201-214

  Grottel, Sebastian ^a   Krone, Michael ^b   Müller, Christoph ^b   Reina, Guido ^b   Ertl, Thomas ^b  

^a DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

Author keywords

large data; particle based data; software framework; Visualization system

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; DATA HANDLING; OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE; OPEN SYSTEMS; THERMODYNAMICS; VISUALIZATION;

DEVELOPMENT FRAMEWORKS; FUNCTIONAL MODULE DESIGN; LARGE DATA; SOFTWARE FRAMEWORKS; VISUALIZATION APPLICATION; VISUALIZATION FRAMEWORK; VISUALIZATION RESEARCH; VISUALIZATION SYSTEM;

DATA VISUALIZATION;

EID: 84920804485     PISSN: 10772626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVCG.2014.2350479     Document Type: Article

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