INTERACTIVE QUANTITATIVE VISUALIZATION

Interactive Quantitative Visualization, a methodology to enhance scientific and engineering computational simulation prototyping, is defined. Appropriate strategies for implementing IQV in a workstation-based distributed computing environment are discussed. Object-oriented graphical tools and a new data management technique to support IQV and computational steering are described. Two examples of IQV and computational steering are presented: 1) a system to allow interactive solution and visualization of nonlinear boundary-value problems; and 2) a modeling exercise illustrating how IQV and computational steering are used together to prototype simulation of a complex physical system, namely a flag flapping in the wind.