ABSTRACT

IN Chapter 2, we showed the basic steps of a visualization applicationand also sketched a simple data representation for the function graphing problem. In Chapter 3, we described in detail how to represent discrete, sampled data. We introduced several dataset types that offer different trade-offs between representation flexibility and storage and implementation requirements. At this point, we should have a good understanding of how to represent the data we are interested in visualizing. The focus of this chapter is to present the structure of a complete visualization application, both from a conceptual and a practical perspective.