Modular Visualization Environment and Parallel Processing

Abstract

The latest technology development has brought traditional visualization closer to users especially to users of the Intel IA32 (PC) platform. Generally the expression "visualization" means data processing in the way that a human being can imagine the physical or other phenomena represented by the given data sets. Although the visual understanding is nearly understood exclusively the term should be extended to more general sense. Visualization covers many fields of computer science, like numerical computation, graphics, parallel and distributed processing etc. On the other hand the application fields must be understood and the human perception must be understood and respected as well. Several features of visualization in this platform are described including some new results obtained recently, expected development and open problems as well.