Scientific visualization

Scientific visualization (also spelled scientific visualisation) is an interdisciplinary branch of science as a visual art.

See also Data visualization, Mathematical visualization, and Information visualization.

Description

According to Friendly (2008), it is "primarily concerned with the visualization of three-dimensional phenomena (architectural, meteorological, medical, biological, etc.), where the emphasis is on realistic renderings of volumes, surfaces, illumination sources, and so forth, perhaps with a dynamic (time) component".

It is also considered a branch of computer science that is a subset of computer graphics.

The purpose of scientific visualization is to graphically illustrate scientific data to enable scientists to understand, illustrate, and glean insight from their data.

Information visualization

Compare Information visualization.

See also

• Computer graphics
• Computer science
• Data visualization
• Information visualization
• Visual arts

External links

• Scientific visualization @ Wikipedia