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Computer games and scientific visualization

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How should scientists approach the innovations in visualization-rendering systems increasingly derived from computer game tools, interfaces, navigation techniques, and plot lines?

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            cover image Communications of the ACM
            Communications of the ACM  Volume 45, Issue 7
            How the virtual inspires the real
            July 2002
            103 pages
            ISSN:0001-0782
            EISSN:1557-7317
            DOI:10.1145/514236
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