Visualization (of data)

Principles: see Tufte and some details of what he says (from U of Washington) and also some more notes . These from Terrie Miller at O'Reilly)

for one dimension of data - gray scale image, false color, contour lines, pie charts
for two dimensions of data - maps, elevation profile, bar charts, vector,
for three dimensions of data - volumes, false colored 2D images, maps with parts scaled by 3rd parameter, contour surfaces, transparent volumes
for "flows" - streamers, flow lines, particle paths, vectors at reporting stations,
multivariable data - multi-dimensional glyphs, overlayed images/presentations
time based data - movies, time converted into some other dimension, image toggle displays, images of change (or first derivative)
non-spatially related data (also non-contiguous data) high density stand alone glyphs, display sorted by current interesting parameter, use of icons (labels) to identify source faces weather station glyphs)
General visualization tools: VTK, Vis5D
A very nice set of 3D visualizations shown on a globe.
numerous graphic pages - including visualization
VRML Data Visualization Tool
Tufte
Vis5D is on the SOD cluster. Try:
```
cd ~juell/Vis5D
vis5d LAMPS.v5d
vis5d SCHL.v5d
```