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Zusammenfassung Die Hauptbeiträge dieser Ausgabe belegen eindrucksvoll den Stand der Forschung, den die wissenschaftliche Visualisierung inzwischen erreicht hat. Allerdings kann das große Spektrum der Anwendungen und Projekte der in der Visualisierung aktiven Forschungsgruppen im deutschsprachigen Raum auf diese Weise kaum angemessen beschrieben werden. Daher geben wir im Folgenden ausgewählten...

In our discussions with end users about today's vi-sualization environments we were led to consider new concepts for the setting up of a platform which should be better suited to their real needs. In this paper, a hierarchy of visualization objects is presented. They will be the main elements of an new platform which should be both intuitive and extensible.

A generic framework based on services for 3D information visualization is presented. The framework can support a wide range of applications and offers the flexibility to be tailored to specific application needs by configuration. The design and implementation details are discussed as well as a concrete application based on this framework.

Visualization is an emerging discipline practiced by skilled artisans who are hand-crafting the current systems. In the process of constructing many displays of abstract corporate data, we have distilled some aspects of the successful displays into a set of guidelines for creating perceptually eeective visualizations. By describing our guidelines, illustrating their usage with several novel exa...

Flow visualization has been a very active subfield of scientific visualization in recent years. From the resulting large variety of methods this paper discusses partition-based techniques. The aim of these approaches is to partition the flow in areas of common structure. Based on this partitioning, subsequent visualization techniques can be applied. A classification is suggested and advantages/...

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