visualization (graphic)

Visualization is any technique for creating images, diagrams, or animations to communicate a message. Visualization through visual imagery has been an effective way to communicate both abstract and concrete ideas since the dawn of man. Examples from history include cave paintings, Egyptian hieroglyphs, Greek geometry, and Leonardo da Vinci's revolutionary methods of  technical drawing for engineering and scientific purposes. Visualization today has ever-expanding applications in  science, engineering Product visualization, all forms of  education,  interactive multimedia,  medicine  etc. Typical of a visualization application is the field of computer graphics. The invention of computer graphics may be the most important development in visualization since the invention of  central perspective in the Renaissance period. The development of animation also helped advance visualization.
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