Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!netsys!nucleus!hacker 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 Lines: 28 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