Visualization Handbook by Charles D. Hansen, Chris R. Johnson

The Visualization Handbook provides an overview of the field of visualization by presenting the basic concepts, providing a snapshot of current visualization software systems, and examining research topics that are advancing the field.

This text is intended for a broad audience, including not only the visualization expert seeking advanced methods to solve a particular problem, but also the novice looking for general background information on visualization topics. The largest collection of state-of-the-art visualization research yet gathered in a single volume, this book includes articles by a whos who of international scientific visualization researchers covering every aspect of the discipline, including:

- Virtual environments for visualization

- Basic visualization algorithms

- Large-scale data visualization

- Scalar data isosurface methods

- Visualization software and frameworks

- Scalar data volume rendering

- Perceptual issues in visualization

- Various application topics, including information visualization.

* Edited by two of the best known people in the world on the subject; chapter authors are authoritative experts in their own fields;

* Covers a wide range of topics, in 47 chapters, representing the state-of-the-art of scientific visualization.

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