Editing Scientific visualization (section)

{{for|Mathematical visualization|mathematical visualization}}
{{Short description|Interdisciplinary branch of science concerned with presenting scientific data visually}}
[[File:Rayleigh-Taylor instability.jpg|thumb|280px|A scientific visualization of a simulation of a [[Rayleigh–Taylor instability]] caused by two mixing fluids.<ref>[https://wci.llnl.gov/codes/visit/gallery.html Visualizations that have been created with VisIt]. at wci.llnl.gov. Updated: November 8, 2007</ref>]]
[[File:Tolmuterad.jpg|thumb|Surface rendering of ''[[Arabidopsis thaliana]]'' [[pollen]] grains with [[Confocal microscopy|confocal microscope]].]]
'''Scientific visualization''' ([[ise vs ize|also spelled]] '''scientific visualisation''') is an [[interdisciplinary]] [[Branches of science|branch of science]] concerned with the [[visualization (computer graphics)|visualization]] of scientific phenomena.<ref name = "MF08">[[Michael Friendly]] (2008). [http://www.math.yorku.ca/SCS/Gallery/milestone/milestone.pdf "Milestones in the history of thematic cartography, statistical graphics, and data visualization"].</ref> It is also considered a subset of [[computer graphics]], a branch of computer science. The purpose of scientific visualization is to graphically illustrate scientific data to enable scientists to understand, illustrate, and glean insight from their data. Research into how people read and misread various types of visualizations is helping to determine what types and features of visualizations are most understandable and effective in conveying information.<ref name="Mason">{{Cite journal |first1=Betsy  |last1=Mason |title=Why scientists need to be better at data visualization |url=https://knowablemagazine.org/article/mind/2019/science-data-visualization |journal=Knowable Magazine |date=November 12, 2019 |year=2019 |doi=10.1146/knowable-110919-1 |s2cid=209062044 |doi-access=free}}</ref><ref name="O'Donoghue">{{cite journal |last1=O'Donoghue |first1=Seán I. |last2=Baldi |first2=Benedetta Frida |last3=Clark |first3=Susan J. |last4=Darling |first4=Aaron E. |last5=Hogan |first5=James M. |last6=Kaur |first6=Sandeep |last7=Maier-Hein |first7=Lena |last8=McCarthy |first8=Davis J. |last9=Moore |first9=William J. |last10=Stenau |first10=Esther |last11=Swedlow |first11=Jason R. |last12=Vuong |first12=Jenny |last13=Procter |first13=James B. |title=Visualization of Biomedical Data |journal=Annual Review of Biomedical Data Science |date=2018-07-20 |volume=1 |issue=1 |pages=275–304 |doi=10.1146/annurev-biodatasci-080917-013424 |url=https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/full/10.1146/annurev-biodatasci-080917-013424 |access-date=25 June 2021|hdl=10453/125943 |s2cid=199591321 |hdl-access=free }}</ref>