Visualization
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The term visualization or visualisation may refer to:
  • Creative visualization
    Creative Visualization
    Creative visualization refers to the practice of seeking to affect the outer world via changing one's thoughts. Creative Visualization is the basic technique underlying positive thinking and is frequently used by athletes to enhance their performance. The concept originally arose in the US with...

  • Flow visualization
    Flow visualization
    Flow visualization in fluid dynamics is used to make the flow patterns visible, in order to get a qualitative or quantitative information on them.- Overview :...

  • Geovisualization
    Geovisualization
    Geovisualization, short for Geographic Visualization, refers to a set of tools and techniques supporting geospatial data analysis through the use of interactive visualization....

  • Illustration
    Illustration
    An illustration is a displayed visualization form presented as a drawing, painting, photograph or other work of art that is created to elucidate or dictate sensual information by providing a visual representation graphically.- Early history :The earliest forms of illustration were prehistoric...

  • Information graphics
    Information graphics
    Information graphics or infographics are graphic visual representations of information, data or knowledge. These graphics present complex information quickly and clearly, such as in signs, maps, journalism, technical writing, and education...

    , visual representations of information, data, or knowledge
  • Information visualization
    Information visualization
    Information visualization is the interdisciplinary study of "the visual representation of large-scale collections of non-numerical information, such as files and lines of code in software systems, library and bibliographic databases, networks of relations on the internet, and so forth".- Overview...

  • Interactive visualization
    Interactive visualization
    Interactive visualization is a branch of graphic visualization in computer science that involves studying how humans interact with computers to create graphic illustrations of information and how this process can be made more efficient....

  • Music visualization
    Music visualization
    Music visualization, a feature found in electronic music visualizers and media player software, generates animated imagery based on a piece of music...

    , a feature found in some media player software applications
  • Scientific visualization
    Scientific visualization
    Scientific visualization is an interdisciplinary branch of science according to Friendly "primarily concerned with the visualization of three-dimensional phenomena , where the emphasis is on realistic renderings of volumes, surfaces, illumination sources, and so forth, perhaps...

  • Software visualization
    Software visualization
    Software visualization is the static or animated 2-D or 3-D visual representation of information about software systems based on their structure, size, history, or behavior....

  • Systems Visualization
    Systems visualization
    -Overview:Systems Visualization is a new field of visualization which integrates the four disciplines of narrative story telling, visual metaphors & visual design, complex systems theory, and knowledge & data representation through the use of ontologies. Systems visualization is notably...

  • Visualization (computer graphics)
  • Visulation
    Visulation
    Visulation is a portmanteau describing a coupled system where graphic visualization and computer simulation occur simultaneously. Visulation is conducted in many GPGPU applications and commonly employs interactive visualization techniques....



See also
  • List of graphical methods
  • Image
    Image
    An image is an artifact, for example a two-dimensional picture, that has a similar appearance to some subject—usually a physical object or a person.-Characteristics:...

  • Mental image
    Mental image
    A mental image is an experience that, on most occasions, significantly resembles the experience of perceiving some object, event, or scene, but occurs when the relevant object, event, or scene is not actually present to the senses...

    , as with imagination
  • Previsualization
    Previsualization
    Previsualization is a function to visualise complex scenes in movie before filming. It is also a concept in still photography...

  • Spatial visualization ability
    Spatial Visualization Ability
    Spatial visualization ability or Visual-spatial ability is the ability to mentally manipulate 2-dimensional and 3-dimensional figures. It is typically measured with simple cognitive tests and is predictive of user performance with some kinds of user interfaces.-Measurement:The cognitive tests used...

    , the ability to mentally manipulate 2-dimensional and 3-dimensional figures
  • Visual communication
    Visual communication
    Visual communication as the name suggests is communication through visual aid and is described as the conveyance of ideas and information in forms that can be read or looked upon...

  • Visual perception
    Visual perception
    Visual perception is the ability to interpret information and surroundings from the effects of visible light reaching the eye. The resulting perception is also known as eyesight, sight, or vision...

  • Visual system
    Visual system
    The visual system is the part of the central nervous system which enables organisms to process visual detail, as well as enabling several non-image forming photoresponse functions. It interprets information from visible light to build a representation of the surrounding world...

  • Visual thinking
    Visual thinking
    Picture thinking, visual thinking , visual/spatial learning or right brained learning is the common phenomenon of thinking through visual processing using the part of the brain that is emotional and creative to organize information in an intuitive and simultaneous way.Thinking in pictures, is one...

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