Scientific illustrations use drawings and renderings to visually communicate scientific concepts to a specific audience.
Scientific illustrations follow strict conventions. They are particularly useful for showing perspective (the representation of reality determined by the position from which it is observed) and scale (the proportional ratio of a linear dimension of the representation to the same feature of the original). They are also useful for showing complex or essential attributes of a system.
Disciplines that use scientific illustrations include:
- astronomy
- botany
- medicine
- physics
- zoology.
