Declarative 3D Approaches for Distributed Web-based Scientific Visualization Services.

Abstract

Recent developments in the area of efficient web-service architectures and the requirement to provide applications not just for a small expert group lead to new approaches in the field of web-based (scientific) visualization. The just emerging support for GPU-supported and therefore highperformance 2D and 3D graphics in modern web-client implementations and standards provide new application environments, which are especially interesting for the demands of scientific visualization solutions. Thus, in this paper we present a web application deployment architecture that aims at supporting decision making processes more efficiently. We also show that current approaches in the field of declarative 3D techniques are useful for client-side rendering as well as for a large number of processing and visualization aspects.