eugene@eos.arc.nasa.gov (Eugene Miya) (11/08/90)
The purpose of visualization (sic) is insight. Not pretty pictures. Not artificial realities. Not virtual realities. The best term I have heard is not SciVis, but ANALYTIC GRAPHICS [C. Hunter LLNL]. In article <1990Nov7.193654.7665@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> andyrose@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu (Andy Rose) writes: >SO. What is it about scientific visualization that is not changing? Besides >all the inevitable goings ons in the hardware realm where is sci vis going? >. . . . Just how expensive is sci viz anyway? It is and it will be changing. At the moment, I have leant my best photogrammetric texts to several people in interesting places. These folk will introduce a few simple ideas in software systems to come. The ideas exist in other fields, they just have to make it into graphics. Cost? Sigh! Some cheap, some expensive. --e.n. miya, NASA Ames Research Center, eugene@eos.arc.nasa.gov {uunet,mailrus,most gateways}!ames!eugene AMERICA: CHANGE IT OR LOSE IT.
eugene@eos.arc.nasa.gov (Eugene Miya) (11/08/90)
In article <7568@eos.arc.nasa.gov> I wrote: >The purpose of visualization (sic) is insight. Richard W. Hamming deserves to be mentioned as person who made the observation: The purpose of computing is insight, not numbers. which my comment was derived. Hamming, still alive, is at the US Naval Post Graduate School in Monterey, formerly at Los Alamos and Bell Labs where is is best known for his work on coding theory, may not be as well known to younger computists and those scientists unfamiliar with his work. He truly keeps insight. If we learn anything, it is to remember Hamming. --e.n. miya, NASA Ames Research Center, eugene@eos.arc.nasa.gov {uunet,mailrus,most gateways}!ames!eugene AMERICA: CHANGE IT OR LOSE IT.
vanadis@cs.dal.ca (Jose Castejon-Amenedo) (11/09/90)
In article <7570@eos.arc.nasa.gov> eugene@eos.arc.nasa.gov (Eugene Miya) writes: > Richard W. Hamming deserves to be mentioned as person who made the > observation: > The purpose of computing is insight, not numbers. I read somewhere (I forget where) that, years later, Hamming himself said: ``The purpose of computing is not yet in sight.'' This might be apocryphal, but I do not know about that. Perhaps somebody might ask him. JCA vanadis@cs.dal.ca
eugene@eos.arc.nasa.gov (Eugene Miya) (11/09/90)
In article <1990Nov8.193618.12998@cs.dal.ca> vanadis@cs.dal.ca (Jose Castejon-Amenedo) writes: > I read somewhere (I forget where) that, years later, Hamming >himself said: ``The purpose of computing is not yet in sight.'' This >might be apocryphal, but I do not know about that. Perhaps somebody >might ask him. Ask him: (408)-646-2655 from my files. --e.n. miya, NASA Ames Research Center, eugene@eos.arc.nasa.gov {uunet,mailrus,most gateways}!ames!eugene AMERICA: CHANGE IT OR LOSE IT.