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From: cyberoid@milton.u.washington.edu (Robert Jacobson)
Newsgroups: sci.virtual-worlds
Subject: Object Oriented Classification of Visualization "Idioms"
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Date: 28 Feb 91 00:09:47 GMT
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The following message was posted to comp.graphics, but I think it has
high relevance to our newsgroup as well.  Let me know what you think,
and don't forget to reply to the poster directly, too.


From: sdl@lyra.mitre.org (Steven D. Litvinchouk)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics,comp.graphics.visualization
Subject: Object-oriented classification of visualization "idioms"
Date: 7 Feb 91 17:13:11 GMT
Organization: The Mitre Corp., Bedford, MA.

I am interested in developing an object-oriented class hierarchy of
useful "idioms" in scientific visualization, such as maps, spatial
fields, etc.  (More precisely this would be a multiple-inheritance
heterarchy.)  This would be the basis of an Lisp or Smalltalk-based
scientific visualization environment.  I am particularly interested
in what the higher-level abstract classes or "mixins" should look
like.  

I already know of the following related efforts:

        Lisp-Stat
        S-Plus now has some object-oriented features
        CSIRO in Australia has done some classification
        Wehrend (Univ. Colorado) has also

Does anyone know of any other research in this field that they could
supply me with pointers to?  Also, if anyone has any ideas on this
subject they would like to share, I would greatly appreciate it.

Thanx very much in advance!


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