Visualization over the Internet Andreas Kolb ak@teleweb.at Institute of Computer Graphics Vienna University of Technology Austria

5. Conclusions

VizWiz is an intuitive to use tool with the ability to visualize own data sets at an acceptable performance. But it is obvious that tools like VizWiz should use Java3D as in natural Java the performance penalties due to the missing opportunity of using machine dependent 3D hardware is the most hindering point.

Generally as the computing speed of desktop PC’s of "ordinary" users increases the visualization pipeline will move to the users in the next time. Applets like VizWiz will be the next visualization techniques as every publisher can host such services at almost no cost.