Year: 1989
Type: article
Abstract: MORETECHNI CAL PEOPLE than ever before have access to powerful computers.They are using them to run in-.creasingly complex simulations and experiments, producing a glut of data human beings are unable to analyze by themselves.Scientific computer graphics, and the sophisticated display systems on which graphics depend, are coming to the rescue."Visualization in Scientific Computing (YiSC)" is an expression coined in Novmber 1987 by a panel organized by the National Science Foundation's Division of Advanced Scientific Computing.'Instantly, it became fashionable, and has all but replaced more commonplace formulations like "computer graphics for scientists."We'd like to talk about a subfield of ViSC that concentrates on exciting interactive methods of visualizing data -interactive data visualization (lOY). Glorious MUDDIDY is best known in computer-aided design and manufacturing (CAD/CAM) applications, which we think of as the interactive visualization of real objects.But IDY is much more powerful than that -it can give researchers the ability to visualize abstractions such as density, magnetic moment, or electric fields.It does this by assigning visual characteristics such as color or translucency to one of these invisible qualities.By visualizing the unseen, a re-Joanna Alexander is all associate member of the technical staff in the applied mathematics and scientific computing group at SRI's
Source: Information Display
Authors: Joanna Alexander, Norman Winarsky
Language: English
Field: Computer Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
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