7. Conclusions

In this Section I want to give you short conclusion about the main contents of this work, which aimed to investigate and visualize the "dynastic cycle" model, a three dimensional non-linear dynamical system, that models the society of china.

The aim of this work has been to investigate the model of the so called "dynastic cycle", but also to visualize the results, and therefore to gain a better insight into the systems behavior through these visualizations. The behavior of this model of the system has been explored by doing some consectutive steps, which were mainly:

Simplifying the model
Assuming one variable to be fixed
Leting this one variable vary very slowly
Finally, look at the full model

In this work we have investigated the dynastic cycle model by using different visualization techniques, which have been described in the last Sections and a lot of examples were shown.

As mentioned in the Introduction most of the visualizations have been done under AVS (Advanced Visualization System) Software, as a part of the big DynSys3D - Project developed currently at our institute, a system that provides many different tools for visualizing analytically defined three-dimensional dynamical systems.

But there are of course a lot more possible techniques one could think of for visualizing this system. One improvement one could think of, would be, to investigate the system interactively in the 3D-space, as in the VR approaches for example.

Last updated on June 25, 1997 by Helmut Doleisch (helmut@cg.tuwien.ac.at)