D thesis, University of Kent, Computing Laboratory, University of Kent, Canterbury, Kent, CT2 7NF, UK, October 1995. Abstract Visualization or Visualization in Scientific Computing is a rapidly growing area in computer science.
Visualization is the process and result of viewing data and numbers as a diagram or drawing.
Visualization is a method of extracting meaningful information from complex or voluminous datasets through the use of interactive graphics and imaging. Over the past few years visualization has spread into multiple disciplines and many diverse visualization systems and environments have been designed. This thesis describes many aspects of visualization, focusing on Abstractional visualization. This thesis describes aspects of visualization using this abstraction idea.