文档介绍：Helen Wright
Introduction to
Scientific
Visualization
Helen Wright, MA, DPhil
Department puter Science
University of Hull
Hull
UK
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Library of Congress Control Number: 2006927788
ISBN-10: 1-84628-494-5 Printed on acid-free paper
ISBN-13: 978-1-84628-494-6
© Helen Wright 2007
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Preface
About This Book
This book was first suggested to Springer in 2004, though its origins go back
to changes made two years earlier to the structure of the University of Hull’s
Computer Science programme. At the same time, my own visualization re-
search was leading towards a systematic view of data and techniques that
I felt could be educationally valuable. In 2003 I thus sat down with some
trepidation to write a visualization course founded on research in the area
but heless accessible to students. This course coul