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+# visualisation-requirements
+Gathering requirements and use cases for 3d visualisation tasks
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+This repository contains data files to illustrate typical scenarious of visualising scalar and vector files (typically done with VTK).
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+Related tasks and deliverables include:
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+- https://github.com/OpenDreamKit/OpenDreamKit/issues/86
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