Bringing Your Visualization Application to the Internet

The Internet has a growing importance as a medium for presenting visualization and offering visualization tools. Due to strong variations in the quality of avaliable resources it is extremely difficult to design visualization systems including the Internet, which are capable of interactively visualizing user data. In this paper we identify requirements for a distributed visualization system to interactively visualize user data. As a possible solution to the identified problems we present a model for a visualization pipeline capable of fulfilling these requirements. Finally a proof-of-concept implementation of our ideas into Net Phase Plane, a visualization tool for dynamical systems, is discussed. keywords: visualization over the Internet, dynamical systems, computational steering, interactive visualization

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