Treffer: Using GPU Shaders for Visualization.

The article discusses the use of shaders and the OpenGl Shading Language (GLSL) in two common visualization applications, namely point clouds and cutting planes. Data-mapping visualization techniques like point clouds, jitter clouds and cutting planes have more similarities since they are part of a group of techniques that map data display to arbitrary geometry. It indicates that the similarities in their implementation allows programmers the freedom to choose the underlying geometry for visualization programming.