Visualization is about making sense of potentially large and complex structures by finding an adequate graphical representation that our visual and cognitive systems can process effectively.
Large scale numerical simulations are producing an ever growing amount of data that represent a double challenge. First, these amounts of data are becoming increasingly difficult to analyse relying on the traditional tools. Next, moving these data from the simulation to disks, to latter retrieve them from disks to the analysis machine is becoming increasingly costly in term of time and energy.
