Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!bloom-beacon!oberon!sdcrdcf!ucla-cs!lanai!trainor From: trainor@lanai.cs.ucla.edu (Vulture of Light) Newsgroups: comp.graphics Subject: Re: Scientific visualization Message-ID: <13973@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU> Date: 29 Jun 88 02:03:01 GMT References: <10763@ames.arc.nasa.gov> <1181@nucleus.UUCP> Sender: news@CS.UCLA.EDU Reply-To: trainor@lanai.UUCP (Vulture of Light) Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department Lines: 25 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. hacker@nucleus.UUCP (Thomas Hacker, ACM) writes: > 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. I agree 100% with Eugene Miya. The hype will eventually hurt computer graphics. You only have to look at AI see what hype does to a field. I hope I don't puke in Atlanta this year... douglas [][] trainor@cs.ucla.edu [][] ...!{ihnp4,randvax,rutgers,sch-loki,ucbvax}!ucla-cs!trainor