NEW SOFTWARE TOOLS FOR VISUALIZATION OF ANALYTICAL DATA

Efforts towards using advanced computer graphics for improved visualiz ation of three-dimensional (3-D) secondary ion mass spectrometry (SIMS ) data are described. The application of the Visualization Toolkit (vt k), a freely available C++ class library for 3-D graphics and visualiz ation for both PC and Unix systems, is demonstrated. Various available algorithms are used to analyze and visualize features otherwise hidde n within data. A selection of examples is presented to demonstrate the capabilities of data visualization.