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Virtually all comprehension in science, technology, and even art, calls on our ability to visualize. The ability to visualize is almost synonymous with understanding. Modern science goes beyond isolated theories, and demands computer simulation to understand Teal-world situations. Scientific Visualization - a set of software tools coupled with a powerful 3D graphical computer environment - is the eyes through which simulations are viewed. From today’s post-processing of data to future tracking and steering of simulations, Scientific Visualization has become an essential part of the research process for the computational scientist.
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Ferrario, M. (1993). Scientific Visualization, a User View. In: Allen, M.P., Tildesley, D.J. (eds) Computer Simulation in Chemical Physics. NATO ASI Series, vol 397. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-1679-4_14
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