Scientific Visualization: Interactions, Features, Metaphors (original) (raw)

Beyond scientific visualization (panel session)

ACM SIGGRAPH 90 Panel Proceedings on - SIGGRAPH '90, 1990

The term "scientific visualization" conjures up mental images of molecules reacting or velocity vectors whizzing around. Yet, visualization is migrating beyond the scientific domain because it maps not only numerical, but all data into visual representations. This panel compares several visualization methodologies and how they have employed advanced computer graphics to map abstract information into meaningful animations and interactive software.

Scientific Visualization as an Interpretive and Expressive Medium

As a powerful technique for the visual representation of complex data, scientific visualization offers the potential to help secondary school science students learn through active inquiry. Over a period of several years, we have been conducting research in the design of scientific visualization environments that support inquiry-based learning. The goal is to support students in a multi-stage learning process that culminates in open-ended research projects. In the early stages, learners should gain familiarity with scientific visualization techniques and the phenomena depicted. In the later stages, students conduct investigations that use scientific visualization techniques to explore open-ended questions. Through the process of conducting inquiry with scientific visualization students can gain an understanding of its usefulness for originating and answering scientific questions.

Scientific Visualization—Advances and Challenges

Scientific Visualization is currently a very active and vital area of research, teaching and development. The success of Scientific Visualization is mainly due to the soundness of the basic premise behind it, that is, the basic idea of using computer-generated pictures to gain information and understanding from data (geometry) and relationships (topology). This is an extremely intiutive and very important concept which is having a profound and wide spread impact on the methodology of science and engineering.

Visualization Working Group at TU Wien

Visual Informatics, 2021

Building-up and running a university-based research group is a multi-faceted undertaking. The visualization working group at TU Wien (vis-group) has been internationally active over more than 25 years. The group has been acting in a competitive scientific setting where sometimes contradicting multiple objectives require trade-offs and optimizations. Research-wise the group has been performing basic and applied research in visualization and visual computing. Teaching-wise the group has been involved in undergraduate and graduate lecturing in (medical) visualization and computer graphics. To be scientifically competitive requires to constantly expose the group and its members to a strong international competition at the highest level. This necessitates to shield the members against the ensuing pressures and demands and provide (emotional) support and encouragement. Internally, the vis-group has developed a unique professional and social interaction culture: work and celebrate, hard and together. This has crystallized into a nested, recursive, and triangular organization model, which concretizes what it takes to make a research group successful. The key elements are the creative and competent vis-group members who collaboratively strive for (scientific) excellence in a socially enjoyable environment.