Visfiles: UK team surveys web-based visualization

  • Authors:
  • Bill Hibbard

  • Affiliations:
  • Space Science and Engineering Center, Madison, WI

  • Venue:
  • ACM SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics
  • Year:
  • 2000

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Abstract

Arguably the trigger for the success of the World Wide Web in the early 1990s was its ability to convey images as well as text. Documents could include colour pictures at no extra cost. In those days, however, scientific visualization in a Web context was a passive activity. A scientist would create a visualization using a conventional system, and publish it on a website - for a reader to later observe. The Web was simply a publication medium. Today of course the Web represents a rich distributed computing environment: visualization can now be executed as a live process with active engagement from the audience.A new field of Web-based visualization has emerged.