Visualization (graphics)

Visualization of how a car deforms in an asymetical crash based on final element analysis.

The term visualization refers to any technique for creating images, diagrams, or animations to communicate any message. Visualization through visual imagery has been an effective way to communicate both abstract and concrete ideas since the dawn of man.

From history we know Cave painting, Hieroglyphs, greek geometry, Leonardo da Vinci's revolutionary methods of technical drawing for engieneering and scientific purposes.

Visualization today has ever expanding applications in science, engieneering, in any form of education , interactive multimedia, medicine etc. Typical for most applicatons of visualization these days is the extensive use of computer graphics. The invention of computer graphics may be the most important development for the visualization field since the invention of the central perspective in the Renaissance. The development of animation also helped advance the field of visualization.