Abstract
The advent of affordable computer graphics hardware and software has initiated great interest in using this technology for interpreting and displaying multidimensional data. The first part of this article (SSCORE 10:3, Fall 1992) discussed the basic hardware and software components of a 3-D visualization system and presented an example illustrating 3-D visualization of social science data. This paper describes basic 3-D visualization techniques and examines commonly encountered problems. The intent of these discussions is to help social scientists determine whether 3-D visualization may be a useful tool in their work and provide interested researchers with sufficient information to begin the planning process for a visualization laboratory.
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