"kitchenview" made great improvements toward an interactive visualization tool. We have taken 'particle' code as a substitute for the actual CFD code now under development. "KitchenView" can read in this data and simulate the particle field motion in the GL window. This holds great promise for visualization of the data resulting from executing the CFD solver. However,this substitute data is small in comparison to the data resulting from running the solver. We need to continue our efforts to investigate the limitations of the software and hardware, testing how +real time+ visualization may be implemented. Many features and aspects of the software have been improved; we have added some standard commercial kitchen appliances to the "kitchenview" database. They were created by ACCAD artists using traditional computer graphics techniques implemented at ACCAD, and currently, we are investigating the use of third party CAD/CAM software, AutoCad for example, to get the same results for the commercial user.

The direction of the software research moved toward the investigation of scientific visualization techniques to be used on the data taken from the CFD solver. The interface will continue to change resulting from suggestions during the beta testing phase and further internal development. However, we must shift to the visualization of the fluid flow as the next essential area of research. We also began to develop more complicated appliances to add to the database.