Contents

• Preface
  • Abstract
    • Motivation
    • Goals of This Work
    • Structure of this Document
    • Acknowledges
• Overview
  • System Engeneering
  • Software Overview
  • How to use tsKit
  • Application Scenario
    • Representations of Sound
    • Generating a Data Set
    • Rendering a Movie
• Background
  • Why Visualization ?
  • Requirements
  • Related Work
    • Open Inventor Applications and Extensions
      • ChemKit - Molecular Visualization
      • Soft Primitives - Modeling Organic Forms
      • VrTool - A Virtual Reality Developers Toolkit
    • MET++ - A Multimedia Application Framework
    • MAX - A Graphical Music-Programming Environment
    • VRML2.0 - Virtual Reality Meta Language
    • IRIS Explorer - A Scientific Visualization Toolkit
      • 'When Timbre Comes Apart'
    • Thesis A Real-Time 3D Signal Analysis/Synthesis Tool Based on the Short Time Fourier Transform
• System Design
  • Using Libraries and Frameworks
  • The Open Inventor Library
    • General
      • Naming Conventions
      • Type System
    • Scene Graph
      • GUI for Nodes an Scenes
      • Grouping Nodes within NodeKits
    • Runtime System
      • Field Connection
      • Engines
      • Manipulators
      • Sensors
      • Callback Nodes
    • File Format
    • Open Inventor Summary
  • Reused Software Technology
    • SGI's Digital Media Library
    • GUI Builder RapidApp
    • Other Reused Software
      • Scrub Audio Samplerate Converter
  • Design Problems, Their Discussion and Solutions
    • Runtime Types
    • Unified Data Structure for Signals
      • One-Dimensional Signal Data
      • Two-Dimensional Signal Data
    • Elements - Internal Node Communication
    • Reading Signal Data from Files
    • Control of Time
      • General
      • Synchronizing Feedback
    • Controlling Field Values
      • Field Editors
      • Scene Graph control with gview/tsgview
      • Direct Control with Manipulators
    • Feedback for Time Signals
      • tsLine - Drawing a Line Strip
      • tsAudio - Playing Audio
      • tsSurface - Drawing a Surface
    • Time Signal Shapes with Normals
    • Colors and Transparency
    • Transforming Time Signals
      • Engine for computing Colors and Transparency Values
    • Control a Selection
• Conclusions
  • Conclusions
  • Limitations, known Bugs and Future Work
    • Limitations and known Bugs
    • Future Work
• Results
  • Software
• References
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