A picture - preferably in 3-D with ...

A picture - preferably in 3-D with detailed, photorealistic features afforded by a computer - is worth a thousand words.

Design professionals are finding that the aged cliche takes on some of the present day meaning as they experiment with visualization software programs that breathe life into designs and presentations. While computer visualization applications are not just discovered programs that can run forward modest PCs have single recently become available, resulting in recently made known levels of sophistication, ease of use and price. "Visualization" software now looks to be supplanting "rendering"