Johnson C.R., Hansen C.D. (Eds.) The Visualization Handbook

Amsterdam: Elsevier, 2005. — 962 p.With this Handbook, we have tried to compile a thorough overview of our young field by presenting the basic concepts of visualization, providing a snapshot of current visualization software systems, and examining research topics that are advancing the field. We have organized the book into parts to reflect a taxonomy we use in our teaching to explain scientific visualization: basic visualization algorithms, scalar data isosurface methods, scalar data volume rendering, vector data, tensor data, geometric modeling, virtual environments, large-scale data, visualization software and frameworks, perceptual issues, and selected application topics including information visualization. While, as we say, this taxonomy represents topics covered in a standard visualization course, this Handbook is not meant to serve as a textbook. Rather, it is meant to reach a broad audience, including not only the expert in visualization seeking advanced methods to solve a particular problem but also the novice looking for general background information on visualization topics.