Introduction to scientific visualization

Main purpose of scientific visualization: enable scientists, researchers, and engineers to visualize their data to help them understand their data structure and glean scientific insight from it.

Diverse applications of scientific visualization in natural sciences, geography and ecology, mathematics, applied sciences, and engineering.

General idea of scientific visualization is converting numeric tables into plots, graphs, and rendering with strong attention to underlying concept behind the data:

Picture is taken from The ParaView Tutorial Version 3.12.

Two general data formats exist in scientific visualization:

  • Structured datasets:
  • Unstructured datasets: