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From: eugene@eos.arc.nasa.gov (Eugene Miya)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.visualization
Subject: visualization (sic)
Message-ID: <7568@eos.arc.nasa.gov>
Date: 8 Nov 90 00:24:28 GMT
References: <1470@vtsai2.sai.vtt.fi> <1990Nov7.193654.7665@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu>
Reply-To: eugene@eos.UUCP (Eugene Miya)
Organization: NASA Ames Research Center, Calif.
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The purpose of visualization (sic) is insight.
	Not pretty pictures.
	Not artificial realities.
	Not virtual realities.
The best term I have heard is not SciVis, but ANALYTIC GRAPHICS
[C. Hunter LLNL].

In article <1990Nov7.193654.7665@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu>
andyrose@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu (Andy Rose) writes:
>SO.  What is it about scientific visualization that is not changing?  Besides
>all the inevitable goings ons in the hardware realm where is sci vis going?
>. . . .  Just how expensive is sci viz anyway?

It is and it will be changing.  At the moment, I have leant my best
photogrammetric texts to several people in interesting places.  These
folk will introduce a few simple ideas in software systems to come.
The ideas exist in other fields, they just have to make it into graphics.
Cost? Sigh!  Some cheap, some expensive.

--e.n. miya, NASA Ames Research Center, eugene@eos.arc.nasa.gov
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