Its role is to bring together workers in different subject disciplines with a common interest in visualization and virtual environments, whether that interest is as a researcher, developer or user. Overview Visualization has become an essential tool in solving problems of difficult and voluminous data in a wide variety of disciplines.
Engineering is no exception.
In addition to CFD, which stimulated much early visualization work, visualization is used in such fields as terrain modelling, process engineering, biomechanics, solid mechanics, architecture and electromagnetics. It is used both for experimental data and for data resulting from simulations. Although each subject evolves its own visualization methods, there are many advances in visualization which are applicable across a wide range of disciplines. Thus a Community Club for visualization is able to act as a means of transferring ideas, methods and experiences between disciplines. In 1996, the Steering Group decided to broaden the role of the Community Club, to introduce virtual reality concepts and techniques to the well-established area of visualization.