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[[File:50 years of datavisulization berengueres own work.png|thumb|Selected milestones and inventions]]

The modern study of visualization started with [[computer graphics]], which "has from its beginning been used to study scientific problems. However, in its early days the lack of graphics power often limited its usefulness. The recent emphasis on visualization started in 1987 with the special issue of Computer Graphics on Visualization in ''[[ScientificComputational Computing (magazine)science|Scientific Computing]]''. Since then there have been several conferences and workshops, co-sponsored by the [[IEEE Computer Society]] and [[ACM SIGGRAPH]]".<ref>G. Scott Owen (1999). [http://www.siggraph.org/education/materials/HyperVis/visgoals/visgoal3.htm History of Visualization] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121008032217/http://www.siggraph.org/education/materials/HyperVis/visgoals/visgoal3.htm |date=2012-10-08 }}. Accessed Jan 19, 2010.</ref> They have been devoted to the general topics of [[data visualization]], information visualization and [[scientific visualization]], and more specific areas such as [[volume visualization]].

In 1786, [[William Playfair]] published the first presentation graphics.