Workstations for Experiments : IFIP WG 5.10 International Working Conference Lowell, MA, USA, July 1989

Powerful new technology has been made available to researchers by an increasingly competitive workstation market. Papers from Canada, Japan, Italy, Germany, and the U.S., to name a few of the countries represented in this volume, discuss how workstations are used in experiments and what impact this new technology will have on experiments. As usual for IFIP workshops, the emphasis in this volume is on the formulation of strategies for future research, the determination of new market areas, and the identification of new areas for workstation research. This is the first volume of a book series reporting the work of IFIP WG 5.10. The mission of this IFIP work- ing group is to promote, develop and encourage advancement of the field of computer graphics as a basic tool, as an enabling technology and as an important part of various application areas. Front Matter....Pages I-VIII Front Matter....Pages 1-1 The Impact of Scientific Visualization on Workstation Development....Pages 3-11 Issues in User Interface....Pages 12-15 Front Matter....Pages 17-17 Employing the Intelligent Interface for Scientific Discovery....Pages 19-27 A Mixed-Mode Man-Machine Interface for Interactive Problem Solving....Pages 28-39 A Graph-Based Visual Tool for Workstations....Pages 40-65 Temporal Issues of Animate Response....Pages 66-81 Applications and Comparison of Different Mathematical Methods to Compute Form Factors for “Radiosity Images”....Pages 82-96 Comparative Operations in Solid Modeling....Pages 97-121 Front Matter....Pages 123-123 3DGRP — A High Performance Graphics System....Pages 125-135 An Auditory Display for Exploratory Visualization of Multidimensional Data....Pages 136-145 A Model for the Use of Different Sound Description Layers Within a Multimedia Environment....Pages 146-157 Front Matter....Pages 159-159 Some Thoughts on a Computer Workstation for the Biological Sciences....Pages 161-163 Issues in the Design of Workstations for Psychology Experimentation....Pages 164-172 Protocol Toolkits for Distributed Real-Time Experimental Workstations....Pages 173-197 Data Analysis in a User Interface for Distributed Process Control....Pages 198-212 Scientific Visualization in Supercomputing Environments....Pages 213-222 Back Matter....Pages 223-225