Scientific visualization: From data to insight.

Scientific visualization refers to the study and design of visual representation of data that arises in science and engineering disciplines. The aim of the visualization is the identification of patterns leading to a better understanding of the underlying phenomena. This article will briefly introduce this topic by first providing the motivation in the form of applications, next describing a couple of well-studied visualization methods and algorithms, outlining some of the current research challenges in this area, and finally presenting a summary of related ongoing research work IISc Bangalore. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]