Scientific visualization

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Scientific visualization is the graphical representation of scientific data using computers and in particular techniques from computer graphics. In fact, scientific visualization developed as a separate field of research from computer graphics in the 1980s[1].

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  1. McCormick, B.H., T.A. DeFanti, M.D. Brown (ed), Visualization in Scientific Computing, Computer Graphics Vol. 21, No. 6, November 1987.