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Researchers at the University of California, Davis, and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory have developed software that makes the analysis and visualization of large data sets possible without the use of a supercomputer, reports Technology Review. The researchers' algorithm slices data into manageable chunks, then stitches it back together, so the data can be manipulated in three dimensions, all on a computer with the power and capacity of an expensive laptop. The software uses a mathematical tool called the Morse-Smale complex, which has been used to extract and visualize elements of large data sets by sorting them into segments that contain mathematically similar features.