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Title

Frontiers of scientific visualization / edited by Clifford A. Pickover and Stuart K. Tewksbury.

Publication

New York : Wiley, [1994], ©1994.

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Additional Authors

• Pickover, Clifford A.
• Tewksbury, Stuart K.

Description

vi, 284 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color); 24 cm

Summary

• Fluid flows, fractals, plant growth, genetic sequencing, the configuration of distant galaxies, virtual reality, artistic inspiration...these are a few of the many unseen phenomena, processes, events, and concepts that can be made visible through the power of modern computers - including personal computers. Frontiers of Scientific Visualization explores the many ways in which computers are now used as tools for simulation, art, and discovery.
• It presents the most important recent work of some the best minds in computer-visualization research. It also puts forth a vision of the future in which current limitations on computer graphics dissolve, opening great new frontiers, vast new landscapes of knowledge, creativity, and even entertainment that, today, remain unseen
• . Many of the patterns provided in the book can be reproduced using a personal computer. Supplemented with a special 16-page insert of riveting color computer-generated illustrations, this clear and accessible text will be of equal interest to the scientist and the artist, the mathematician and the video technician, the educator, the student, and the general reader interested in computer graphics.

Subjects

• Computer graphics
• Visualization

Note

• "A Wiley-Interscience publication."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction / Clifford A. Pickover -- 1. Scientific Visualization of Fluid Flow / Hassan Aref, Richard D. Charles and T. Todd Elvins -- 2. Visualization of Scroll Waves / Mario Markus and Manfred Krafczyk -- 3. Visualization of Chemical Gradients / Theo Plesser, Wolfgang Kramarczyk and Stefan C. Muller -- 4. Visualization of Biological Information Encoded in DNA / Eugene Hamori -- 5. Visualizing Droplet Coalescence Phenomena / Paul Meakin, Clifford A. Pickover and Fereydoon Family -- 6. Computer Simulation of Plant Growth / Philippe de Reffye -- 7. Scientific Display: A Means of Reconciling Artists and Scientists / Jean-Francois Colonna -- 8. Architecture and Applications of the Pixel Machine / Michael Potmesil and Eric M. Hoffert -- 9. Brave New Virtual Worlds / David M. Weimer.

ISBN

0471309729 (paper : acid-free paper)

LCCN

93011136

OCLC

• 28114444
• ocm28114444

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries