Maya is due to be ported to Linux and Mac in the near future. We use Wrap and the Microscribe for 3d digitizing. A digital video camera is available. Art has the capacity to leave the viewer with an altered and enriched capacity to experience the universe. 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.