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3d Visualization Tools

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 July 2020

Matthew T. Dougherty
Matthew T. Dougherty*
Affiliation:
National Center for Macromolecular Imaging, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, 77030
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Abstract

The tutorial presents 3D visualization as implemented at NCMI: beginning with a brief overview of the history and philosophy of scientific visualization, proceeding to a description of general methodologies used throughout the field of visualization, and concluding with specific applications in electron microscopy, confocal microscopy and x-ray diffraction. The majority of the tutorial uses biological examples of visualization to demonstrate concepts and tools.

History and Philosophy: Effective scientific visualization presents data in a simple, accurate conceptual formulation. Over the last one hundred years there has been a sea change in its economics caused by digital computers: beginning with calculated tables that were manually plotted, proceeding to two dimensional image graphics, and most recently multivariate 3D interactive graphics. The capability of scientific visualization has been greatly facilitated by the evolution of computers; particularly over the last ten years the 3D visualization of biological structures is quickly becoming a necessity for analysis, conceptualization, and presentations.

Type
Tutorials (Biological Sciences Tutorials Organized by G. Sosinsky) (Physical Sciences Tutorials Organized by I. Anderson)
Information
Microscopy and Microanalysis , Volume 7 , Issue S2: Proceedings: Microscopy & Microanalysis 2001, Microscopy Society of America 59th Annual Meeting, Microbeam Analysis Society 35th Annual Meeting, Long Beach, California August 5-9, 2001 , August 2001 , pp. 770 - 771
Copyright
Copyright © Microscopy Society of America 2001

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