3-D Reservoir Modeling: Hydrocarbons and Aquifers

From the moment we are born, we begin taking in data through our senses: smell, taste, touch, sound, and, perhaps the most important of all senses, sight. Our visual input is a color, 4-D animation of the world around us. The physical tools we are given at birth dictate the way we learn, analyze, and interpret external input. Computer animation has evolved to the point where we can visualize, and in fact analyze, animated 3-D and 4-D datasets in real time, in a way similar to the way we have been trained since birth. In the earth sciences, we are just beginning to scratch the surface of possibility.