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From: eugene@eos.UUCP (Eugene Miya)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Re: iso-surfaces in SciVi
Message-ID: <5293@eos.UUCP>
Date: 29 Sep 89 21:07:17 GMT
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Reply-To: eugene@eos.UUCP (Eugene Miya)
Organization: NASA Ames Research Center, Calif.
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Iso surface:  (2-D in a 3-D or higher-D)
A geometric structure, or concept with a CONSTANT value (ranging across a
domain).  An extention from the concept of isobars (contour lines of constant
pressure), isotherms (constant temperature), isobels, iso-this/iso-that
Always a boundary.
Not to be confused with the International Standards Organization. 8)

Another gross generalization from

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