Report on Visualization in Scientific Computation

1987年2月9日至10日，一个顾问小组在NSF召开会议，代表科学界对图形、图像处理和工作站产生的问题的看法。该小组由具有代表性的杰出科学家组成，他们在进行研究时构建或使用复杂的可视化工具。作为那次会议的结果，该小组现在想要生成一份报告，定义可视化领域并详细说明其在学科科学（例如生物学、物理学、经济学）中的应用。该提案旨在支持编写该报告。报告将由两部分组成：一份书面报告和一份录像带。该报告将定义科学计算可视化领域，其领域，人员和关键规范问题。报告的主体将由来自某些学科的研究人员撰写，这些学科需要在可视化的基础科学方面取得进展。该录像带将展示计算机生成的科学模拟图形的范例。该报告汇集了一些有待科学计算可视化进展的硬科学问题的样本，这些问题来自nsf支持的研究人员和其他政府机构；并提出了一些方案、政策和技术来满足这些需求。研究人员希望改变在先进的科学计算机上进行科学研究的方式，从而提高科学生产力和国家竞争力

On February 9-10, 1987, an advisory panel met at NSF to represent the views of the scientific community on issues arising from graphics, image processing, and workstations. The panel consisted of representative, prominent scientists who build or use sophisticated visualization tools in the conduct of their research. As a result of that meeting, the panel now wants to generate a report defining the field of visualization and detailing its uses in the discipline sciences (e.g. biology, physics, economics). The proposal seeks to support the generation of that report. The report will consist of two pieces: a written report and a videotape. The report will define the field of Visualization in Scientific Computing, its domain, personnel, and key canonical problems. The body of the report will be written by researchers from certain discipline sciences that need advances in the underlying sciences of visualization. The videotape will present exemplary computer-generated graphics of scientific simulations. The report brings together a sampling of hard scientific problems that await advances in visualization in scientific computing, from NSF-supported researchers and other agencies of government; and , it suggest some programs, policies, and technologies to meet those needs. The investigators hope to change the way that science gets done on advanced scientific computers, with implications for scientific productivity and national competitiveness