Scientific visualization—some novel approaches to learning
Ken Brodlie, Jason Wood, Helen Wright · ACM SIGCUE Outlook · 1996
Scientific visualization is becoming an important part of the curriculum in a number of disciplines. It is a very practical subject, but the commercially available visualization software systems are not easy to learn. Thus we have explored the use of novel technology to help us in teaching students to use IRIS Explorer - this includes on-line tutorials, shared sessions involving teacher and student over a network, and the use of WWW. This work, which has been stimulated by teaching applications, has also motivated research into the wider area of collaborative visualization. 1. Introduction Scientific visualization is now an important component of scientific and engineering computing. Indeed it is recognised as the only means of understanding the large datasets which now occur routinely - whether by measurement in the case of medical scanners or satellite photography, or by simulation in the case of chemical kinetics or computational fluid dynamics. Thus visualization as a discipline i...