Applications of Scientiic Visualization in a Physics Environment

Scientiic visualization is rapidly becoming an indispensable tool for presentation of scientiic data. Reaching beyond the indisputable success of presentation of (large) data sets requires among others some form of quan-tiication of the visualization. This together with the possibility to interact with a visualization and to tightly couple it to model calculations are necessary ingredients for successful application of the tool in physics. For the quantiication to a certain extent methods from image processing seem applicable. However, more general methods usable for quantiication need to be developed in close cooperation between the visualization tool-maker and tool-user. The same applies to the coupling of simulation and visualization. As an illustration, some applications realizing aspects of the above mentioned topics with commercially available software, are surveyed.