Articles and Books: There are several good books on scientific visualization and animation, including the following:

Tufte, E.R. (2001) The Visual Display of Quantitative Information, Graphics Press.
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Ware, C. (2004) Information Visualization, Morgan Kaufmann.
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Examples: There are many WWW pages that contain examples of scientific visualization and animation, including the following: