The definition, editing, and contouring of surfaces for the analysis of field problems. - Robert R. Dickinson; Richard H. Bartels (CHI, 1987)

The interactive editing and contouring of empirical fields. - Robert R. Dickinson; Richard H. Bartels; Allan H. Vermeulen (IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, 1989)

Interactive analysis of the topology of 4D vector fields. - Robert R. Dickinson (IBM J. Res. Dev., 1991)