Scientific visualization in the next millennium

One of the most interesting ways to consider scientific visualization is to define it as a computationally intensive visual thinking. For centuries, scientists and engineers used illustration and drawing to visually depict their ideas. As we step into the next millennium, new computer graphics algorithms and interactive techniques provide us with the ability to computationally generate images that look like hand-drawn or paintbrush scientific visualization. These emerging computer graphics techniques will be used to `draw on the (electronic) wall'.