Fluid Flow Visualization -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Experimental Flow Visualization -- 3 Computer Graphics Flow Visualization -- 4 Presentation Techniques -- 5 Conclusions and Research Directions -- References -- Volume Visualization in Medicine: Techniques and Applications -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Imaging Modalities -- 3 Methods -- 4 Applications -- 5 Conclusions -- References -- Application of Visualization in Environmental Protection -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Applications of Software Systems in Environmental Protection -- 3 Requirements of Visualization Systems -- 4 Methods and Applications -- 5 Conclusions -- References -- Data Structures in Scientific Visualization -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Computer Based Problem Handling -- 3 Data Types of Dependent Variables -- 4 Coordinate Systems -- 5 Connectivity -- 6 Zone Data -- 7 Auxiliary Information -- 8 Relationship between Data Sets -- 9 Consideration of Time -- 10 Data Structures in Different Software Packages -- 11 Application Package Independent Data Access Software -- 12 Conclusions -- References -- A Visualization-Based Model for a Scientific Database System -- 1 Introduction -- 2 A Paradigm for Interdisciplinary Scientific Research -- 3 Nature of Scientific Data -- 4 Nature of Scientific Data Visualization -- 5 Toward a Target Scientific Database System -- 6 Conclusion -- References -- Volume Synthesis Principles -- 1 Background -- 2 Motivation -- 3 Voxelization Algorithms -- 4 Discrete Ray Tracing -- 5 Concluding Note -- References -- Surface Interpolation from Cross Sections -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Topological Reconstruction -- 3 Geometrie Reconstruction -- 4 Triangulated Surfaces -- 5 Pyramidal Extrapolation -- 6 Smooth Surface Interpolation -- 7 Volume Oriented Reconstruction -- 8 Interpolation by Spatial Delaunay Triangulations -- 9 Reconstruction with Spatial Grids -- 10 Acquisition of Data -- 11 Interaction -- 12 Concluding Remarks -- References -- Modeling and Visualizing Volumetrie and Surface-on-Surface Data -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Data -- 3 Visualization Methods -- 4 Modeling Methods -- References -- Curve and Surface Interrogation -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Reflection Line Method -- 3 Isophotes -- 4 Orthotomics -- 5 Polarity Method -- 6 Focal Surfaces -- References -- Sorting for Polyhedron Compositing -- 1 Polyhedron Compositing -- 2 A General Sorting Algorithm -- 3 Adaptive Mesh Refinement -- 4 Sorting for the AMR Method -- 5 Interpolation and Contour Surfaces -- 6 Sorting for Cloud Visualization -- 7 Results -- References -- Joining Volume with Surface Rendering -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Converting Data -- 3 Combining Rendering Methods -- 4 Applications - Two Examples -- References -- The Volume Priority Z-Buffer -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Overview of the Algorithm -- 3 Projection Strategy -- 4 Block Processing -- 5 Conclusion -- References -- A Fourier Technique for Volume Rendering -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Fourier Projection-Slice Theorem -- 3 Fourier Volume Rendering -- 4 Data Shifting -- 5 Resampling Implementation Details -- 6 Zero Padding and Premultiplication -- 7 Resampling Rate -- 8 Conclusion -- References -- An Improved Shading Algorithm for Radiosity Based Renderers -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Rendering -- 3 Comparisons -- 4 Results -- 5 Implementation -- References -- Some Annotations on X-ray Tracing -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Underlying Principle -- 3 X-ray Tracing Stills -- References -- Auditory Representation of Scientific Data -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Technical Considerations -- 3 Sensory and Perceptual considerations -- 4 Experiments in Auditory Data Representation -- 5 Systems for Research in Auditory Data Representation -- 6 Evaluation of Auditory Data Representations -- 7 Summary and Conclusions -- References -- Color Illustrations -- 1 Fluid Flow Visualization -- 2 Volume Visualization in Medicine: Techniques and Applications -- 3 Application of Visualization in Environmental Protection -- 4 Data Structures in Scientific Visualization -- 5 A Visualization-Based Model for a Scientific Database System -- 6 Visualizing Volumetrie and Surface-on-Surface Data -- 7 Curve and Surface Interrogation -- 8 Sorting for Polyhedron Compositing -- 9 Joining Volume with Surface Rendering -- 10 An Improved Shading Algorithm for Radiosity Based Renderers.