They say an image is worth a thousand words. We're showing that an image is easily worth a thousand words and may even be priceless. When you're showing images, it's much easier for the scientist, and people in general, to see a concept than if you try to explain it with words or numbers.
Vision is the most important sense in our everyday lives.
The brain perceives information more readily in a graphical way. Scientific visualization has emerged as a critical part of the scientific process by exploiting the human brain's natural pattern recognition ability. This simulation of shock wave propagation and detonation helps to elucidate the role of shock waves in turbulent flames. This is the basis for understanding more complex phenomena such as supernovae. In the image, a shock wave was propagated from left to right.