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With the proliferation of modeling and analysis, computer systems engineers in all fields have experienced a great increase in the number and complexity of problems that they can profitably solve. Systems for processing the solutions to such problems have not, however, kept up and this has created a situation in which engineers have had to turn to methods that are less powerful and accurate than others that are available but provide output data in a form they can efficiently handle.
We present an interactive graphics post-processor designed as part of a finite element analysis system for electromagnetic field problems. We describe the ideas which are central to the design of a responsive interactive post-processor and explain some of the algorithms which have proven successful. Several examples are shown to illustrate the plotting and graphical results presentation capabilities of the post-processor.
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Ince, I.A., Barton, M.L., Oravec, J.J. (1983). Application of Interactive Computer Graphics to the Results of Electromagnetic Field Calculations. In: Kunii, T.L. (eds) Computer Graphics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-85962-5_33
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