Visualization
The technique of visualization (or visualisation) consists of creating a mental image of a desired outcome, and repeatedly playing that image in the mind.In alternative medicine visualization sometimes occurs in conjunction with medical treatment, including cancer treatment (see oncology).
In one example of a visualization, one can imagine cancer cells as some slimy form of sea life being consumed by white sharks, which represent the body's immune cells.
Athletes sometimes use visualization to try to help them succeed at their sport.
Visualization forms part of Rosicrucianism and Esotericism in general. Magick also employs visualization.
Compare with meditation and with petitionary prayer.
Visualization of how a car deforms in an asymetical crash based on final element analysis
Graphic Visualization
The term visualization also refers to any technique for creating images, diagrams, or animations to communicate any message. Visualization through visual imagery has been an effective way to communicate both abstract and concrete ideas since the dawn of man.
From history we know Cave painting, Hieroglyphs, greek geometry, Leonardo da Vinci's revolutionary methods of technical drawing for engieneering and scientific purposes.
Visualization today has ever expanding applications in science, engieneering, in any form of education, interactive multimedia, medicine etc. Typicall for most applicatons of visualization these days is the extensive use of computer graphics. The invention of computer graphics may be the most important development for the visualization field since the invention of the central perspective in the Renaissance. The development of animation also helped advance the field of visualization.