Original scientific paper
Advanced Scientific Visualization, a Multidisciplinary Technology Based on Engineering and Computer Science
Dean Vucinic
; Department of Mechanical Engineering, Vrije Universiteit Brussel Pleinlaan 2, B- 1050 Brussels, Belgium
Abstract
Today’s visualization tools are equipped with highly interactive visual aids, which allow analysis and inspection of
complex numerical data generated from high-bandwidth data sources such as simulation software, experimental rigs, satellites,
scanners, etc. Such tools help scientists and engineers in data extraction, visualization, interpretation and analysis tasks, enabling
them to experience a high degree of interaction and effectiveness in solving their design problems, which become more and more
complex day by day. As the variety of today’s visualization tools is diversifying, there is a need for their simultaneous use within different
engineering software when solving multidisciplinary engineering problems. It is evident that such tools have to be available for a
combined use, in order to eliminate many well known problems of sharing, accessing and exchanging design models and the related
information content. It is shown that Object-Oriented methodology is a well adapted approach to stream the software development
process of future engineering applications. The three European projects ALICE, LASCOT and SERKET are given as examples in which
the evolving computer software technologies have been researched and demonstrated to address the evolution of the visualization
software in engineering and for information visualization in general.
Keywords
scientific visualization; object orientation; multidisciplinary engineering
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63487
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Publication date:
20.6.2010.
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