Chapter 1 Scientific Visualization: An Engineering Perspective
Richard S. Gallagher
COMPUTER GRAPHICS VISUALIZATION ofbehauior is a young field which has grown to have a major impact on the practice of engineering design and analysis. This chapter outlines the historical development of engineering visualization, and examines some of its major areas of impact in the engineering field.
1.1 Introduction
Visualization is defined in the dictionary as "a mental image." In the fields of computer graphics and engineering design the term has a much more specific meaning: The technical specialty of visualization concerns itself with the display of behavior, and, particularly, with making complex states of behavior comprehensible to the human eye. ...
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