Nielson Gregory M
IEEE Trans Vis Comput Graph. 1996 Jun;2(2):97-99. doi: 10.1109/TVCG.1996.9385188.
Welcome to this theme issue on Visualization. This is the sixth in a series of theme issues. The first four appeared in Computer Graphics and Applications (CGbA vol. 11, no. 3; vol. 12, no. 4; vol. 13, no. 4; vol. 14, no. 5) and the fifth appeared last June in the inaugural year of TVCG. All of these theme issues are based upon topics that were previously presented at the IEEE-sponsored Visualization Conference. For all these theme issues, authors were invited to submit papers based upon their conference papers, but containing significant new research results. These papers were then subjected to an extensive and complete evaluation and review process, and the very best papers were then selected for publication. In the past, the collection of papers that survive this rigorous winnowing have constituted some of the most widely read and influential papers in visualization. They are often cited, and they are often the recipients of awards. We assume the same satisfactory outcome will hold for the present set of papers based upon papers presented at Visualization '95 held October 29 to November 3,1995, in Atlanta, Georgia.
欢迎阅读本期关于可视化的主题特刊。这是系列主题特刊中的第六期。前四期发表于《计算机图形与应用》（《计算机图形与应用》第11卷，第3期；第12卷，第4期；第13卷，第4期；第14卷，第5期），第五期于去年6月发表在《计算机图形学汇刊》的创刊年。所有这些主题特刊均基于此前在IEEE主办的可视化会议上所展示的主题。对于所有这些主题特刊，我们邀请作者根据其会议论文提交稿件，但需包含重要的新研究成果。这些论文随后要经过广泛而全面的评估和评审过程，然后挑选出最优秀的论文予以发表。过去，在这一严格筛选过程中留存下来的论文集构成了可视化领域一些阅读量最广、影响力最大的论文。它们经常被引用，也常常荣获各类奖项。我们认为，基于1995年10月29日至11月3日在佐治亚州亚特兰大举行的可视化会议上所展示的论文而形成的这组论文，也将取得同样令人满意的成果。
