Acknowledgements

The last lines of this text should be words of gratitude to all those who helped to make this thesis possible. First of all, I have to thank Meister Edi Gröller for being a patient superisor and for supporting this work with ideas, criticism, etc.  I want to thank Rainer Wegenkittl for being a congenial colleague who worked also on the visualization of dynamical systems for quite a long time. I am very thankful to Lukas Mroz, Thomas Kuera, Helmut Doleisch, Edgar Weippl, and Markus Götzinger, who did great work in implementing the ideas presented in this thesis. Zsolt Szalavári helped me to learn about local analysis of dynamical systems, and Robert F. Tobler provided me with good hints for the design and set-up of the DynSys3D system. I also want to thank Alexandra Milik and Peter Szmolyan for the joined work on mixed-mode oscillations. For providing me with an environment and support for my work I want to thank Werner Purgathofer. Together with Andreas König and Peter Stieglecker I had numerous discussions, more or less related to this thesis. Finally, I really have to thank Albrecht Kadlec, Andrea Wähner, Anja Deml, Elsbeth Gruss, Gabi Königshofer, Herbert Oppolzer, Karin Hummel, Maria Hauser, Martin Pottendorfer, and Stefan Grünfelder for standing by me in good and bad times,

thank you all!

mailto:helwig@cg.tuwien.ac.at.