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Event Display: Can We See What We Want to See?[1]

Abstract

1 - Introduction

2 - Pictures for Talks and Papers

2.1 - Front and Side View

2.2 - "Fish Eye Transformations"

2.3 - Histograms in a Picture

2.4 - Application of Colors

2.5 - Definition of colors

2.6 - Use of Frames

3 - Visual Analysis

3.1 - Use of picture transformations

3.2 - Helices in Cartesian and Angular Projections

3.3 - Lines through Sequences of Points

3.4 - Blow-up of a sequence of points

3.5 - Visualisation of the Vertex Region and the Inner Detectors

3.6 - Imaging Events from Fixed Target Detectors

3.7 - Island Representation of Calorimeters

4 - Three Dimensional Representations for Visual Analysis

4.1 - Perspective Projections

4.2 - Shading and Volume Rendering

4.3 - Smooth rotations.

4.4 - Stereo Images

4.5 - The Method of Technical Drawings

5 - Track Visualisation Close to the Primary Interaction Point

5.1 - Smooth Standard Rotations

5.2 - Artificial Display Cube

5.3 - Display of the Track to Track Distance

6 - The V-Plot, a Three Dimensional Representation for Visual Analysis of Tracks

6.1 - The Helix Representation via the V-Plot

6.2 - Application of the V-Plot, Example 1

6.3 - Application of the V-Plot, Example 2

6.4 - Extrapolation of Tracks via the V-Plot

6.5 - The V-Plot for Super High Multiplicity Events

6.6 - Generalisation of the V-Plot

6.7 - The V-Plot for Straight Track Sections Outside a Magnetic Field. (TPC Tracks of the NA35 Experiment)

6.8 - Interactive Correlation of Different Windows

7 - The Puzzle-Plot, a Three Dimensional Representation of Calorimeter Data

8 - Classification of Pictures

9 - Conclusions

10 - Acknowledgements

11 - References

12 - Further Reading

13 - Color Plates