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From: hacker@nucleus.UUCP (Thomas Hacker)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Re: Scientific visualization
Message-ID: <1181@nucleus.UUCP>
Date: 26 Jun 88 17:36:58 GMT
References: <10763@ames.arc.nasa.gov>
Reply-To: hacker@nucleus.UUCP (Thomas Hacker, ACM)
Organization: The Nucleus Public Access Unix, Clarkston, MI
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In article <10763@ames.arc.nasa.gov> eugene@pioneer.UUCP (Eugene N. Miya) writes:
>Sorry, I can't take it many more.  I am getting tried of all the
>marketing hype of "scientific visualization."  Especially by marketing
>people who have no idea what they are talking about.  People just don't
>wantonly display scientific data.  It's not Enterainment Tonight.
>


     I disagree with you.  Scientific Visualization
  is a potentially important tool to be used in order to give
  form to literally mountains of numbers from simulation and 
  experement.  While it should not be used as the "end result"
  of the analysis of data, it can and should be used for giving
  a gross picture of what's going on in the system the scientist
  is looking at.  These gross pictures are what give scientists 
  insight into what's really going on and allows them to concentrate
  and direct their energies into looking at the right things.
  
   A good thing to read about what's going on in scientific
    visualization is in the May/June 1988 issue
   of "Computers in Physics" published by the American Institute of
   Physics.  It contains several articles pertaining to the use of
   visualization using computers in Physics.

-- 
Thomas J. Hacker            ...!uunet!umix!nucleus!hacker (hacker@nucleus.UUCP)
Physics/CS Undergrad
Oakland University                 "Physics is the poetry of nature."
Rochester, MI 48063