An enhanced WWW-based scientific data visualization service using VRML

This paper summarizes the progress achieved through the build of a scientific data visualization web service; a client-server system that is designed to acquire visualization requests from users connected to a web browser, perform the visualization process and provide them with the visualization results. Interacting with the visualization results is another issue that has to be taken into account. Providing results using VRML gives the opportunity to navigate the visualization and makes the visualization as an analysis tool rather than just a tool for the presentation of results. The different trade offs and optimization parameters associated with the VRML output are discussed through the presentation of an optimized framework aiming to provide interactive, fast, portable and easy to use services. The framework is tested against different visualization techniques to ensure its adaptability to each of them. An average reduction factor of 87.63323 % is achieved to the final VRML resultant file and an average speed up percentage of 9.2793 % is achieved to the execution time of the visualization process.