Visualization and Intelligent Design in Engineering and
Architecture
In recent years, remarkable advances in computer visualization of
objects and physical phenomena have been made. Computer images can now
represent real objects very accurately. These techniques can be
enhanced by defining any desired path, creating animation, moving
computer views and real world video models, as well as sound tracks,
resulting in multimedia representations. The development of these
techniques has been possible because of the improvements in computer
graphic devices, better algorithms and faster processors, which allow
workstations and high speed PCs to be suitable platforms for
visualization and have greatly improved the ability of high-performance
computers to produce computer images, in animated forms, of complex
engineering and architecture problems allowing a dynamic analysis of
their behavior.
Visualization has been essential for the development of new design
techniques in engineering and architecture. The integration of computer
visualization with other advances in computer computational sciences,
such as knowledge based support systems, object bases, advance
numerical methods, etc. provide the basis for intelligent design
systems. The objective of this paper is to discuss advances in
visualization as a tool for intelligent design in engineering and
architecture. The paper aims to bring together research in
computational mathematics and industrial hardware and software, as well
as science, engineering and architecture for developing practical
applications in these various fields. A presentation of our results on
workstations with graphic peripherals and personal computers will be
available to the audience.
Last update: March 23, 1995. If you have any comments, please
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Werner Purgathofer, Institute of Computer Graphics, Technical
University of Vienna.