Multi-functional visualization system for structure analysis

For displaying structure analysis data on demand, we propose a multi-functional visualization system with a sophisticated graphical user interface (GUI) that reflects the observer´s intention interactively and is adapted to further extension. In this system, the analysis results can be expressed in various ways by interactive operations: corresponding to the user´s tentative demands, multiple physical quantities are displayed on the same screen simultaneously; for transient phenomena, animation is available; and distributed vectors and multi-layer scalar data can be observed in stereo vision. By employing the proposed system structure, analysts can easily and intuitively grasp inter-object and intra-object relationships, complicated deformations and changes of physical quantities through time in the objects