A Concise Introduction to Scientific Visualization: Past, Present, and Future

Scientific visualization has always been an integral part of discovery, starting first with simplified drawings of the pre-Enlightenment and progressing to present day.

Scientific visualization has always been an integral part of discovery, starting first with simplified drawings of the pre-Enlightenment and progressing to present day. Mathematical formalism often supersedes visual methods, but their use is at the core of the mental process. As historical examples, a spatial description of flow led to electromagnetic theory, and without visualization of crystals, structural chemistry would not exist. With the advent of computer graphics technology, visualization has become a driving force in modern computing. 

A Concise Introduction to Scientific Visualization - Past, Present, and Future serves as a primer to visualization without assuming prior knowledge. It discusses both the history of visualization in scientific endeavour, and how scientific visualization is currently shaping the progress of science as a multi-disciplinary domain. 

 

• | Author: Alex Pang, Brad Eric Hollister
• | Publisher: Springer Nature Switzerland AG
• | Publication Date: Jan 02, 2022
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• | Binding: Paperback / softback
• | ISBN-13: 9783030864187
• | ISBN-10: 3030864189