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  Roni Yagel, Gregory M. Nielson (Eds.): Visualization '96, Proceedings, San Francisco, CA, USA, October 27 - November 1, 1996. IEEE Computer Society and ACM 1996 ISBN 0-89791-864-9

Visualization Techniques

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  Alvy Ray Smith: Keynote Address: Bringing Visualization to the User (Abstract). 15
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  Brian A. Wandell: Capstone Address: Color, Pattern, and the Human Visual System (Abstract). 17
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  Erwin Keeve, Sabine Girod, Paula Pfeifle, Bernd Girod: Anatomy-Based Facial Tissue Modeling Using the Finite Element Method. 21-28
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  Baba C. Vemuri, Chhandomay Mandal: A Fast Gibbs Sampler for Synthesizing Constrained Fractals. 29-35
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  Daniel Cohen-Or, Yishay Levanoni: Temporal Continuity of Levels of Detail in Delaunay Triangualted Terrain. 37-42
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  Georges-Pierre Bonneau, Stefanie Hahmann, Gregory M. Nielson: BLaC-Wavelets: A Multiresolution Analysis With Non-Nested Spaces. 43-48

Volume Rendering

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  Taosong He, Arie E. Kaufman: Fast Stereo Volume Rendering. 49-56
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  Jane Wilhelms, Allen Van Gelder, Paul Tarantino, Jonathan Gibbs: Hierarchical and Parallelizable Direct Volume Rendering for Irregular and Multiple Grids. 57-64
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  Klaus Mueller, Roni Yagel: Fast Perspective Volume Rendering with Splatting by Utilizing a Ray-Driven Approach. 65-72
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  Shiaofen Fang, Rajagopalan Srinivasan, Su Huang, Raghu Raghavan: Deformable Volume Rendering by 3D Texture Mapping and Octree Encoding. 73-80

Visualization Systems

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  Jason Wood, Ken Brodlie, Helen Wright: Visualization Over the World Wide Web and its Application to Environmental Data. 81-86
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  Luc Beaudoin, Marc-Antoine Parent, Louis C. Vroomen: Cheops: A Compact Explorer for Complex Hierarchies. 87-92
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  William J. Schroeder, Ken Martin, William E. Lorensen: The Design and Implementation of an Object-Oriented Toolkit for 3D Graphics and Visualization. 93-100
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  Daniel G. Aliaga: Visualization of Complex Models Using Dynamic Texture-based Simplification. 101-106

Flow Visualization I

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  Malte Zöckler, Detlev Stalling, Hans-Christian Hege: Interactive Visualiztion of 3D-Vector Fields using Illuminated Streamlines. 107-113
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  Thomas Frühauf: Raycasting Vector Fields. 115-120
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  Ming-Hoe Kiu, David C. Banks: Multi-Frequency Noise for LIC. 121-126

Information Visualization I

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  Matthew Chalmers: A Linear Iteration Time Layout Algorithm for Visualising High-Dimensional Data. 127-132
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  Ed Huai-hsin Chi, John Riedl, Elizabeth Shoop, John V. Carlis, Ernest Retzel, Phillip Barry: Flexible Information Visualization of Multivariate Data from Biological Sequence Similarity Searches. 133-140
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  Pak Chung Wong, R. Daniel Bergeron: Multiresolution Multidimensional Wavelet Brushing. 141-148

Surface Reconstruction

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  Gill Barequet, Daniel Shapiro, Ayellet Tal: History Consideration in Reconstructuring Polythedral Surfaces from Parallel Slices. 149-156
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  Deborah Silver, Xin Wang: Volume Tracking. 157-164
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  Daniel Cohen-Or, David Levin, Amira Solomovici: Contour Blending Using Warp-Guided Distance Field Interpolation. 165-172
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  Chris Weigle, David C. Banks: Complex-Valued Contour Meshing. 173-180

Interaction

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  Robert G. Hughes, A. Robin Forrest: Perceptualisation using a Tactile Mouse. 181-188
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  Suresh K. Lodha, Catherine M. Wilson, Robert E. Sheehan: LISTEN: Sounding Uncertainty Visualization. 189-195
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  Ricardo S. Avila, Lisa M. Sobierajski: A Haptic Interaction Method for Volume Visualization. 197-204
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  David S. Ebert, Christopher D. Shaw, Amen Zwa, Cindy Starr: Two-handed Interactive Stereoscopic Visualization. 205-210

Rendering Methods

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  Victoria Interrante, Henry Fuchs, Stephen M. Pizer: Illustrating Transparent Surfaces with Curvature-Directed Strokes. 211-218
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  Penny Rheingans: Opacity-modulating Triangular Textures for Irregular Surfaces. 219-225
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  Taosong He, Lichan Hong, Arie E. Kaufman, Hanspeter Pfister: Generation of Transfer Functions with Stochastic Search Techniques. 227-234
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  William F. Garrett, Henry Fuchs, Mary C. Whitton, Andrei State: Real-Time Incremental Visualization of Dynamic Ultrasound Volumes Using Parallel BSP Trees. 235-240

Flow Visualization II

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  Steve Bryson, David N. Kenwright, Michael J. Gerald-Yamasaki: FEL: The Field Encapsulation Library. 241-247
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  Suresh K. Lodha, Alex Pang, Robert E. Sheehan, Craig M. Wittenbrink: UFLOW: Visualizing Uncertainty in Fluid Flow. 249-254
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  Steve Bryson, Sandy Johan: Time Management, Simultaneity and Time-Critical Computation in Interactive Unsteady Visualization Environments. 255-261

Information Visualization II

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  Christopher G. Healey: Choosing Effective Colours for Data Visualization. 263-270
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  Roger Crawfis: Real-time Slicing of Data Space. 271-277
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  Milana Huang, Robert P. Grzeszczuk, Louis H. Kauffman: Untangling Knots by Stochastic Energy Optimization. 279-286

Surface Generation

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  Han-Wei Shen, Charles D. Hansen, Yarden Livnat, Christopher R. Johnson: Isosurfacing in Span Space with Utmost Efficiency (ISSUE). 287-294
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  Song Han, Gérard G. Medioni: Triangular NURBS Surface Modeling of Scattered Data. 295-302
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  Takayuki Itoh, Yasushi Yamaguchi, Koji Koyamada: Volume Thinning for Automatic Isosurface Propagation. 303-310

Surface Simplification

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  Reinhard Klein, Gunther Liebich, Wolfgang Straßer: Mesh Reduction with Error Control. 311-318
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  Francine Evans, Steven Skiena, Amitabh Varshney: Optimizing Triangle Strips for Fast Rendering. 319-326
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  Julie C. Xia, Amitabh Varshney: Dynamic View-Dependent Simplification for Polygonal Models. 327-334
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  Raj Shekhar, Elias Fayyad, Roni Yagel, J. Fredrick Cornhill: Octree-Based Decimation of Marching Cubes Surfaces. 335-342

Interaction, Sound, and Temples

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  Upul Obeysekare, Chas Williams, Jim Durbin, Lawrence J. Rosenblum, Robert Rosenberg, Fernando Grinstein, Ravi Ramamurthi, Alexandra Landsberg, William Sandberg: Virtual Workbench - A Non-Immersive Virtual Environment for Visualizing and Interacting with 3D Objects for Scientific Visualization. 345-349
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  David Rossiter, Wai-Yin Ng: A System for the Complementary Visualization of 3D Volume Images Using 2D and 3D Binaurally Processed Sonification Representations. 351-354
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  Florian Sobieczky: Visualization of Roughness in Musical Consonance. 355-357
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  Alan D. Kalvin, Alfredo Remy, Orlando Ardito, Kim Morla, Eduardo Nolasco, Jorge Prado, Regulo Franco, Antonio Murga, Guillermo Wiese: Using Visualization in the Archaeological Excavations of Pre-Inca Temple in Peru. 359-362

Biomedical Visualization

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  Colin R. F. Monks, Patricia Crossno, George S. Davidson, Constantine J. Pavlakos, Abraham Kupfer, Cláudio T. Silva, Brian N. Wylie: Three Dimensional Visualization of Proteins in Cellular Interactions. 363-366
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  Karel J. Zuiderveld, Peter M. A. van Ooijen, John W. C. Chin-A-Woeng, Pieter C. Buijs, Marco Olree, Frits H. Post: Clinical Evaluation of Interactive Volume Visualization. 367-370
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  Vishram Pandit, Robert McDermott, Gianluca Lazzi, Cynthia Furse, Om Gandhi: Electrical Energy Absorption in the Human Head from a Cellular Telephone. 371-374
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  Georgios Sakas, Michael G. Vicker, Peter Jörg Plath: Visualization of Laser Confocal Microscopy Datasets. 375-379

Flow Visualization

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  Martin Roth, Ronald Peikert: Flow Visualization for Turbomachinery Design. 381-384
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  Aaron Trott, Robert J. Moorhead, John McGinley: Wavelets Applied to Lossless Compression and Progressive Transmission of Floating Point Data in 3-D Curvilinear Grids. 385-388
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  Ed Boring, Alex Pang: Directional Flow Visualization of Vector Fields. 389-392

Engineering Applications

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  Jens C. Trapp, Hans-Georg Pagendarm: Data Level Comparative Visualization in Aircraft Design. 393-396
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  John G. Hagedorn, Holly E. Rushmeier, John Blendell, Mark Vaudin: A System for Measuring Surface Facet Orientation from Atomic Force Microscope Data. 397-400
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  Shao-Chiung Lu, Alec B. Rebello, D. H. Cui, Roni Yagel, R. A. Miller, G. L. Kinzel: A Visualization Tool for Mechanical Design. 401-403
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  Shao-Chiung Lu, Alec B. Rebello, D. H. Cui, Roni Yagel, R. A. Miller, G. L. Kinzel: A 3D Contextual Shading Method for Visualization of Diecasting Defects. 405-407

Environmental Visualization

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  James S. Painter, Hans-Peter Bunge, Yarden Livnat: Mantle Convection Visualization on the Cray T3D. 409-412
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  Yingcai Xiao, John P. Ziebarth, Chuck Woodbury, Eric Bayer, Bruce Rundell, Jeroen van der Zijp: The Challenges of Visualizing and Modeling Environmental Data. 413-416
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  Adam B. Forgang, Bernd Hamann, Carl F. Cerco: Visualization of Water Quality Data for the Chesapeake Bay. 417-420
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  David C. Banks, Bernd Hamann, Po-Yu Tsai, Robert J. Moorhead, Jonathan Barlow: Data Reduction and Interpolation for Visualizing 3D Soil-Quality Data. 421-424

Interactive Visualization of Environmental and Astronomical Data

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  M. Sheelagh T. Carpendale, Andrew Fall, David J. Cowperthwaite, Joseph Fall, F. David Fracchia: Case Study: Visual Access for Landscape Event Based Temporal Data. 425-428
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  Scott Nations, Robert J. Moorhead, Kelly P. Gaither, Steve Aukstakalnis, Rhonda Vickery, Warren Carl Couvillion Jr., Daniel N. Fox, Peter Flynn, Alan J. Wallcraft, Patrick Hogan, Ole Martin Smedstad: Interactive Visulization of Ocean Circulation Models. 429-432
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  Jarke J. van Wijk, Hans J. W. Spoelder, Willem-Jan Knibbe, Kamran Eftekhari Shahroudi: Interactive Exploration and Modeling of Large Data Sets: A Case Study with Venus Light Scattering Data. 433-436

Panels

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  William E. Lorensen, Ron Kikinis, Sandy Napel, Arie E. Kaufman, John Flynn: Surface Rendering versus Volume Rendering in Medical Imaging. 439-440
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  Robert Braham, F. David Fracchia, Andrew S. Glassner, Barbara Mones-Hattal, Russ Rose, Nahum D. Gershon: Breaking the Myth: a Picture is NOT (always) Worth a 1, 000 Words. 441-443
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  Hanspeter Pfister, Günter Knittel, Jürgen Hesser, John C. Goble: Real-Time Accelerators for Volume Rendering. 445-447
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  Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro, Graham J. Wills: Information Exploration Shootout. 449-450
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  David Banks, George Francis, Andrew J. Hanson, Loki Jorgenson: Mathematical Visualization: Standing at the Crossroads. 451-453