Visualization technology is a discipline that includes different fields such as computer graphics, image processing, computer vision, Computer Aided Design (CAD), signal processing, user interface methodology and computational geometry. It is one of the fastest growing, most active, and vital areas of research, teaching, and development.
Visualization often uses high end platforms with special graphics and computational hardware. Program development often uses special tools as well. Here we concentrate on the development of a visualization system for low end platforms without special hardware and we use commonly available software development tools. Thus visualization can now be more widely used.
In this thesis, we have designed and implemented an interactive visualization system for Kepler's Three Laws. This system allows the users to specify values for eccentricities and semi-major axes involved in Kepler's Laws. It displays instant computed values while it is running. This system provides visual effects by extensively using graphical user interface design principles. This visualization system was developed under a PC environment using Windows 95/98/NT as the operating system and Microsoft Visual Basic 5.0 as the software development tool.