Using Visualization and Animation to Convey Motion in Experimental Data

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Acknowledgments

First I would like to thank my committee members, Dr. Kay Robbins, Dr. Steven Robbins, and Dr. Clinton Jeffery. Dr. Steven Robbins helped me refine upon many detailed aspects of the thesis. Dr. Jeffery pointed to me the importance of evaluating visualization techniques and tools. I want to especially thank Dr. Kay Robbins for introducing me to the scientific visualization and computer animation field. She gave me many valuable ideas and suggestions. She spent tremendous amount of time helping me with English writing.

I also want to thank my husband, Kai. Without his support I couldn't finish this thesis.

I finally want to thank Michael Villafana and Thu Hang Tran for preprocessing the image data for this project.

This work was supported by the Office of Naval Research under contract N00014-K-0613. I would also like to acknowledge the support of the San Antonio Area Foundation.