Observation and intuition
How visual contact with a flow creates physical intuition, suggests questions and lets the experimenter challenge the adequacy of a model.
Seeing the flow: from observation to understanding
50th anniversary
A session in preparation
To mark fifty years of the International Symposium on Flow Visualization, ISFV22 is preparing a special session around a question that is central to the field but rarely made explicit: what kind of knowledge is produced when a flow is made visible?
Visualization can be a first, direct contact with a flow, through which an experimenter builds intuition and formulates questions, and also a final means of confronting models and interpretations with physical reality. At a time when computation and artificial intelligence increasingly mediate scientific interpretation, the session will ask what remains distinctive about seeing a physical phenomenon.
Programme, format and contributors: to be announced
Themes
What the session may explore
The themes below are indicative and may evolve as the session takes shape.
Instruments and representations
How tracers, illumination, apparatus, images and models shape what can be seen, and what conditions make a particular flow visible.
Computation, sensing and AI
New forms of sensing and imaging, such as event-based cameras, and what it means to “see” when a representation may be designed as much for an algorithm as for a human observer.
Science and art
A dialogue with the history and philosophy of scientific images and with artistic research, asking whether different ways of observing can generate different scientific questions.
Call for abstracts
Contribute to this theme
Contributions within this scope are welcome in the call for abstracts, under the scientific area Science and art. Depending on the submissions received, parallel sessions on this subject may be organised.
To help the Scientific Committee, you may include a keyword such as “science and art” or “seeing the flow” in your abstract.
Flow visualization
Science in motion
