Visualization in the SCIRun Problem-Solving Environment
DAVID M. WEINSTEIN, STEVEN PARKER, JENNY SIMPSON, KURT ZIMMERMAN and GREG M. JONES, Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute, University of Utah
31.1 Introduction to SCIRun
31.1.1 Motivation and History
Located at the crossroads of scientific applications, computer science, and numerical methods is the emerging field of computational science. With strongholds in applications ranging from chemistry to physics and genetics to astronomy, computational science is growing into prominence throughout the scientific world, taking a position next to “theoretical” and “experimental” as another branch of nearly every scientific discipline.
Each scientific discipline has its own terminology ...
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