rick@hanauma (Richard Ottolini) (01/28/89)
"Visualization" refers to the application of state-of-the-art computer graphics to the display of scientific data. Cynics might say that "visualization" is a fancy commercial buzzard for selling graphics equipment to scientists and government funding agencies much in the same way "artificial intelligence" inflated the importance of a limited set of symbolic programming techniques to business. The 1988 SIGGRAPH ran at least two tutorial courses on this subject of which coursenotes are available and several papers of annual meeting refer to visualization of scientific data. The conference proceedings should be in any decent computer science library under "Computer Graphics, v.22 #4" or from Addison-Wesley, Route 128, Reading, MA 01867, or Association for Computing Machinery, 11 West 42nd Street Street, NY NY 10036, (212) 869-7440.