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Layered Earth Inversion Visual Toolkit: A Scientific Visualisation Case Study Andrew Donohoo Debbie Richards Maritime Operations Division Department of Computing Defence Science and Technology Organisation (DSTO) Division of ICS, Macquarie University P.O. Box 44 Pyrmont, NSW 2009, Australia North Ryde, Australia andrew.donohoo@dsto.defence.gov.au richards@ics.mq.edu.au Abstract 1 Introduction Visualisation Systems are in general designed to maximise the The conceptual framework showing the context of the cognitive ability of system users particularly when exposed to large sets of otherwise difficult to comprehend data, by field of visualisation can be seen in Figure 1 (Card, appealing to various strengths of the human perceptual system Mackinlay and Shneiderman, 1999). The framework in processing visual information. Scientific Visualisation in positions visualisation within the broader established particular aims to present physical data in ways that facilitate fields of external cognition (eg Norman 1993), the discovery and/or understanding of deterministic information design and data graphics (eg Tufte 2001). mechanisms or underlying cause and effect of the physical The