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[[File:FAE visualization.jpg|thumb|250px|Visualization of how a car deforms in an asymmetrical crash using [[finite element analysis]]]]

'''Visualization''' (or [[American and British English spelling differences#-ise, -ize (-isation, -ization)|'''visualisation''' ]]), also known as '''graphics visualization''', is any technique for creating [[image]]s, [[diagram]]s, or [[animation]]s to communicate a message. Visualization through visual imagery has been an effective way to communicate both abstract and concrete ideas since the dawn of humanity. Examples from history include [[cave painting]]s, [[Egyptian hieroglyphs]], Greek [[geometry]], and [[Leonardo da Vinci]]'s revolutionary methods of technical drawing for engineering purposes that actively involve scientific requirements.

Visualization today has ever-expanding applications in science, education, engineering (e.g., product visualization), [[interactive visualization|interactive multimedia]], [[medical visualization|medicine]], etc. Typical of a visualization application is the field of [[computer graphics]]. The invention of computer graphics (and [[3D computer graphics]]) may be the most important development in visualization since the invention of [[perspective projection|central perspective]] in the [[Renaissance]] period. The development of [[animation]] also helped advance visualization.