The Visualization Handbook

可视化领域的权威图书-The field of visualization is focused on creating

images that convey salient information about

underlying data and processes. In the past

three decades, the field has seen unprecedented

growth in computational and acquisition technologies,

which has resulted in an increased

ability both to sense the physical world with

very detailed precision and to model and simulate

complex physical phenomena. Given these

capabilities, visualization plays a crucial enabling

role in our ability to comprehend such large

and complex data—data that, in two, three, or

more dimensions, conveys insight into such diverse

applications as medical processes, earth

and space sciences, complex flow of fluids, and

biological processes, among many other areas