This lesson describes what scientific visualization is and the uses of visualization in a Computational Chemistry and Material Science.
Visually represent scientific data from atoms and molecules to clouds and stars.
Scientific Visualization and Animations
No data implies drawing a cartoons. Scientific visualization takes data from simulations or models. The power of scientific visualization is the ability to display all the data from a simulation or computer experiment. This allows for relationships among the data to be more easily determined.
There are numerous ways to display the data and uncover the relationships among the data:
Three dimensional displays can give:
Photo realism versus model representations
For most scientific visualizations, a representaion of the object, a model, is sufficient. Thus, this lecture will focus on representaions and not photo-realistic visualizations.
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How to do scientific visualization: First some data.
There are many ways to display scientific data. The following presentation shows many of the different forms.
A display of the gcn molecule.
Simple ball and stick representations elucidate structure.
Using complex surfaces and volumes for model results can aid in understanding the science. Results from quantum chemistry to find the distribution of electric charge in a molecule.