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Performance Evaluation of Portable Graphics Software and Hardware for Scientific Visualization

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Visualization in Scientific Computing

Part of the book series: Focus on Computer Graphics ((FOCUS COMPUTER))

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In this paper we present an evaluation of the Programmer’s Hierarchical Interactive Graphics System (PHIGS) [2, 3] as portable scientific visualization graphics software, for six different graphics workstations.

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  1. Nancy Hitschfeld
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  2. Dölf Aemmer
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  3. Peter Lamb
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  4. Hanspeter Wacht
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Editors and Affiliations

  1. ONERA, DMI/CC, 29 Avenue de la Division Leclerc, F-92322, Chatillon, France

    Michel Grave

  2. Service IMA, EDF/DER, 1 Avenue du Général de Gaulle, F-92141, Clamart Cedex, France

    Yvon Le Lous

  3. Computer Graphics Unit, University of Manchester, Computing Building, Manchester, M13 9PL, UK

    W. Terry Hewitt

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Hitschfeld, N., Aemmer, D., Lamb, P., Wacht, H. (1994). Performance Evaluation of Portable Graphics Software and Hardware for Scientific Visualization. In: Grave, M., Le Lous, Y., Hewitt, W.T. (eds) Visualization in Scientific Computing. Focus on Computer Graphics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-77902-2_4

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