We usually take this to mean the rapid presentation of sequences of images with the goal of producing the illusion of motion. Visualization is the visual representation of information. By extension we come to the concept of representing ideas through media based on an appreciation of human sensory systems, e.g. sight, sound, touch, etc. Visualization is similar to analogy. Simulation is based on testable, predictive models.
Simulation is similar to isomorphism.
Editing is the manipulation of pace, pattern and scale. Film editing was first done by Edwin Porter, film maker for Thomas Edison. It was taken up in the area of painting and drawing by P. Picasso and G. Braque when they invented cubism and collage. Editing takes material generated by other means and cuts, copies, resizes, transforms and re-presents. We will follow a course of study that parallels the Learning MAYA book.