Science with Cosmic Visualization

The formation of the large scale structure in the Universe is a highly complex, nonlinear process. Understanding the physics of structure formation requires large simulations tracking the evolution of the Universe over time. In order to gain deeper insights into the simulation results, visualization is an invaluable tool. In this talk I will show some results where visualization helped as to sharpen our understanding of large scale structure formation, understand differences in the results from different computational approaches to solve the N-body problem, and tracking the formation of structures over time. We have implemented important analysis tools into ParaView for cosmological simulation which I will introduce.