The visualization input pipeline - enabling semantic interaction in scientific visualization

Scientific Visualization systems are primarily output-oriented. Users can specify and change parameters that are controlling the visualization process, which will result in different data representations or images respectively. But no mechanism is provided to teally interact with the application data (semantic interaction) that has been changed step by step by the process of visualization. In this paper general concepts are elborated and presented to achieve semantic interaction in dataflow environments for Scientific Visualization.