Visualization can provide valuable assistance for data analysis and decision making tasks.
However, how people perceive and interact with a visualization tool can strongly influence …

Differential topology, and specifically Morse theory, provide a suitable setting for formalizing
and solving several problems related to shape analysis. The fundamental idea behind …

" This library is useful for practitioners, and is an excellent tool for those entering the field: it
is a set of computer vision algorithms that work as advertised."-William T. Freeman …

A survey of the development of the marching cubes algorithm [W. Lorensen, H. Cline,
Marching cubes: a high resolution 3D surface construction algorithm. Computer Graphics …

The tremendous evolution of programmable graphics hardware has made high-quality real-
time volume graphics a reality. In addition to the traditional application of rendering volume …

Extreme scale scientific simulations are leading a charge to exascale computation, and data
analytics runs the risk of being a bottleneck to scientific discovery. Due to power and I/O …

Most direct volume renderings produced today employ 1D transfer functions which assign
color and opacity to the volume based solely on the single scalar quantity which comprises …

Mthough dir~ t volume rendering is a poweti tool for visutig complex structures within
volume@ tie S* and mmplexity of the p-eter space controtig the rendering proms mb …

Parametric design systems model a design as a constrained collection of schemata.
Designers work in such systems at two levels: definition of schemata and constraints; and …

When you think about how far and fast computer science has progressed in recent years, it's
not hard to conclude that a seven-year old handbook may fall a little short of the kind of …