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Introduction

The purpose of computing is insight, not numbers.
Richard W. Hamming (1915-1998)

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
Marcel Proust (1871-1927)

This thesis presents research work concerning the visualization of dynamical systemdynamical system (DS)s. The introduction is split into three parts: first (Sect. 1.1), visualization, scientific visualization, and some fields of applications are described. Afterwards, a brief introduction to dynamical systems is given (Sect. 1.2). Finally, the context of this work, namely the visualization of dynamical systems is discussed (Sect. 1.3).



 



Helwig Löffelmann, November 1998,
mailto:helwig@cg.tuwien.ac.at.