VISUALIZATION OF N-DIMENSIONAL ANALYTICAL DATA ON PERSONAL COMPUTERS

Visualization is the task of creating images that allow important feat ures in the data to be discerned much more readily than from the raw d ata. In this article we describe our efforts towards using three-dimen sional graphics for improved visualization caf different data from ana lytical chemistry. Various available algorithms are used to analyze an d visualize data features that are otherwise difficult to grasp, PB se lection of case studies is presented to demonstrate the capabilities o f data visualization. It is shown that, despite some limitations in co mputing power, it is perfectly feasible to use standard personal compu ters for advanced data visualization tasks. (C) 1998 Elsevier Science B.V.