Scientific visualisation, scientific visualization, Informationsvisualisierung, Visualisation d'informations, Information visualization, Візуалізація інформації, Visualização de Informação, Datavisualisatie, Visualización científica,
Визуализация данных, data visualization, information graphics, information visualization, exploratory data analysis, statistical graphics, virtual reality
Scientific visualization (also spelled scientific visualisation) is an interdisciplinary branch of science.
According to Friendly (2008), it is "primarily concerned with the visualization of three-dimensional phenomena (architectural, meteorological, medical, biological, etc.),
where the emphasis is on realistic renderings of volumes, surfaces, illumination sources, and so forth, perhaps with a dynamic (time) component".
It is also considered a branch of computer science that is a subset of computer graphics.
The purpose of scientific visualization is to graphically illustrate scientific data to enable scientists to understand, illustrate, and glean insight from their data.
