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Collaborative Research: Frameworks: Cyberinfrastructure to Catalyze and Sustain the Urban Computing Community
Fabio Miranda, Gustavo Moreira, Claudio T. Silva, Juliana Freire, Graham Dove (New York University) September 1, 2024 - August 31, 2029 Project Overview Cities are the loci of resource consumption, economic activity, and innovation; they are where our looming sustainability problems… Read more |
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Curio: A Dataflow-Based Framework for Collaborative Urban Visual Analytics
Fabio Miranda, Gustavo Moreira January 1, 2024 - Ongoing Curio is a framework for collaborative urban visual analytics that uses a dataflow model with multiple abstraction levels (code, grammar, GUI… Read more |
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Enhancing biomedical search interfaces with images
G. Elisabeta Marai, Juan Trelles Trabucco August 31, 2023 Searching for scientific documents is a pervasive task among researchers. While most academic search engines, such as Google Scholar, search over… Read more |
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Multi-Organ Spatial Stratification of 3-D Dose Distributions Improves Risk Prediction of Long-Term Self-Reported Severe Symptoms in Oropharyngeal Cancer Patients Receiving Radiotherapy: Development of a Pre-Treatment Decision Support Tool
Andrew Wentzel, G. Elisabeta Marai, Abdallah Sherif Radwan Mohamed, Mohamed A Naser, Lisanne V Van Dijk, Katherine Hutcheson, Amy M Moreno, Clifton D Fuller, Guadalupe Canahuate July 17, 2023 Advanced radiotherapy treatments for Oropharyngeal cancer have improved patient survival rates, although they lead to understudied long-term… Read more |
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Roses Have Thorns: Understanding the Downside of Oncological Care Delivery Through Visual Analytics and Sequential Rule Mining
Andrew Wentzel, Carla Floricel, G. Elisabeta Marai, A. Mohamed, C.D. Fuller, G. Canahuate January 1, 2023 We present an interactive analysis system to support sequential rule mining (SRM) model builders who work in cancer symptom research. SRM is a… Read more |
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HIgh Performance Computing Research
Hal Brynteson, Jyotsna Rajaraman, Marco Bonafini, Michael E. Papka, Nguyen Hoa Pham, Revathi Dhotre, Yash Kurkure August 16, 2022 - August 15, 2024 High-Performance Computing research and development supports the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF) supercomputer’s use and… Read more |
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Crowdsourcing and Sidewalk Data: A Preliminary Study on the Trustworthiness of OpenStreetMap Data in the US
Fabio Miranda, Gustavo Moreira, Kazi Shahrukh Omar May 16, 2022 - Ongoing Sidewalks impart a safe walkway for pedestrians, links public transportation facilities, and equip people with limited abilities with routing and… Read more |
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GeoDataOnSphere: Collaborative Exploration of GeoData on Multi-touch Spherical Displays for Future Teachers
Nikita Nandish Soni, Stefany Sit, co-PI, UIC Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences April 10, 2022 - April 9, 2023 Researchers at UIC from the Departments of Computer Science and the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences are studying how to design… Read more |
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Pacific Research Platform (PRP) - Nautilus
Lance Long, Luc Renambot, Maxine Brown, University of California San Diego January 1, 2022 - Ongoing EVL is a technology Innovator, building industry and cross-institutional connections and partnerships. In 2022, EVL deployed two GPU FIONAs in… Read more |
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Deep Umbra: A Global-Scale Generative Adversarial Approach for Sunlight Access and Shadow Accumulation in Urban Spaces
Fabio Miranda, Farah Kamleh, Kazi Shahrukh Omar, Stefan Cobeli August 16, 2021 - Ongoing Deep Umbra is a novel computational framework that enables the quantification of sunlight access and shadows at a global scale. Our framework is… Read more |
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COVID-19 EnsembleVis: Visual Analysis of County-level Ensemble Forecast Models
Fabio Miranda, G. Elisabeta Marai, Sanjana Srabanti May 16, 2021 - Ongoing The COVID-19 pandemic has upended the world over the past year, in a health crisis not seen since the 1918 flu pandemic. As of July 2021, the disease… Read more |
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Longitudinal Spatial-Nonspatial Decision Support for Competing Outcomes in Head and Neck Cancer Therapy
G. Elisabeta Marai, Xinhua Zhang (UIC); Guadalupe Canahuate (UIA); Dave Fuller (MDACC) March 1, 2021 - February 28, 2026 Cancers that depend on the spatial location of the disease affect all ethnicities, and are diagnosed each year in large numbers in the United States… Read more |
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DASS
Andrew Wentzel, Carla Floricel, G. Elisabeta Marai, G. Canahuate (Universite of Iowa,); M. Naser, A. Mohamed, C.D. Fuller, L. Van Dijk (MD Anderson Cancer Center, University of Texas) March 1, 2021 - Ongoing DASS is a visual computing system designed to help scientists build machine learning models that classify head and neck cancer patients into groups… Read more |
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Midwest Comprehensive Visualization Dashboards: A New Environmental Justice Tool for Chicago Communities
Fabio Miranda, Sanjana Srabanti, Joel Flax-Hatch, Fabio Miranda, Apostolis Sambanis, Michael D. Cailas, Michael Siciliano, Sybil Derrible, Yuan Shao, Greg Arling January 10, 2021 - Ongoing The UIC School of Public Health (UIC-SPH) Emergency Management and Resiliency Planning (EMRP) program, in collaboration with the Electronic… Read more |
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Articulate+ - A Conversational Interface for Democratizing Visual Analysis
Andrew Johnson, Jillian Aurisano, Veronica Grosso October 1, 2020 - September 30, 2022 PI: Andrew Johnson (UIC/EVL); co-PIs: Barbara DiEugenio (UIC/CS), Moira Zellner (Norheastern University) Collaborator: Jason Leigh (University of… Read more |
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High-performance computing and data-driven modeling of aircraft contrails
G. Elisabeta Marai, Jonathan Vega, Md Nafiul Alam Nipu, Roberto Paoli (PI, UIC MIE) July 1, 2019 - June 30, 2023 In this project, a novel computational method to model the evolution of aircraft contrail (ice particles forming in aircraft engine’s exhaust)… Read more |
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COMPaaS DLV User Community
Andrew Johnson, Lance Long, Luc Renambot, Maxine Brown, Timothy Bargo, Zhongyi Chen October 1, 2018 - September 30, 2022 The COMPaaS DLV: Composable Platform as a Service Instrument for Deep Learning & Visualization user community consists of faculty from Physics and… Read more |
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Vis for Deep Learning for Biology
Jillian Aurisano May 16, 2017 - May 15, 2018 Deep learning is often referred to as a ‘black box’, because, aside from selecting model and the model hyperparameters (like the learning… Read more |
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MRI - Development of Continuum: A Virtualized Attentive Environment for Amplified Collaboration
Andrew Johnson, Debaleena Chattopadhyay, G. Elisabeta Marai, Jack O'Donnell, Jillian Aurisano, Joe Borowicz, Jonas Talandis, Kayla Condrella, Kenan Arica, Lance Long, Luc Renambot, Maxine Brown, Michael Avendano, Navya Reddy, Robert V. Kenyon, Sumayya Siddiqui, Szymon Popowski, Vijayraj Mahida, Barbara DiEugenio October 1, 2016 - September 30, 2019 Just as NSF cyberinfrastructure produces greater volumes and varieties of data from data storage systems, online instrumentation and major… Read more |
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Interactive Exploration and Tracking of Viscous Fingers in Large-Scale Ensemble Simulations
Andrew Burks, Cassiano Sugiyama, G. Elisabeta Marai, Timothy Luciani May 16, 2016 - August 15, 2016 The visualization of aleatoric uncertainty in ensemble simulations - i.e. the study of high concentrations in mixtures - provides many challenges due… Read more |
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SENSEI-Panama
James Hwang, Jillian Aurisano, Oliver San-Juan, Ishta Bhagat November 1, 2015 - Ongoing SENSEI: Sensor Environment Imaging (SENSEI) Instrument is a National Science Foundation award to construct a reconfigurable, ultra-high-resolution… Read more |
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Reading and Assembling Contextual and Holistic Big Mechanisms
Angus Forbes, M. Surdeanu, K. Barnard, C. Morrison, R. Gutenkunst, G. Yao July 1, 2014 - June 30, 2018 The REACH system extracts (i.e., reads and assembles) causal mechanisms from research abstracts and papers. The fundamental research proposed has… Read more |
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Connectome
Andrew Johnson, Jason Leigh, Electronic Visualization Laboratory; Olusola Ajilore, UIC Department of Psychiatry April 1, 2013 - Ongoing A connectome is a map of neural connections in the brain. In this CAVE2™ Hybrid Reality Environment application, participants walk inside… Read more |
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MOSBIE: A Tool for Comparison and Analysis of Rule-Based Biochemical Models
G. Elisabeta Marai, John R. Wenskovitch, Leonard A. Harris, Jose-Juan Tapia, James R. Faeder February 1, 2013 - January 31, 2015 Mechanistic models that describe the dynamical behaviors of biochemical systems are common in computational systems biology, especially in the realm… Read more |
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SIMPLE project (Sub-ice Investigation of Marine and Planetary-analog Ecosystems)
Andrew Johnson, Arthur Nishimoto January 7, 2013 - January 8, 2018 Funded by NASA, the SIMPLE project (Sub-ice Investigation of Marine and Planetary-analog Ecosystems) is to deploy an autonomous underwater vehicle… Read more |
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Architectural Design of a UCSD Engineering Building
Steve Cady, Thomas A. DeFanti, The Graphics, Visualization and Virtual Reality Laboratory (GRAVITY) and California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2), University of California San Diego January 1, 2013 - Ongoing Participants walk through an architectural model of University of California, San Diego’s recently dedicated Structural and Materials… Read more |
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Burning Aluminum Nanoparticles for use in Fuel Cells
Jason Leigh, Khairi Reda, Electronic Visualization Laboratory; Mike Papka, Argonne National Laboratory; Kenichi Nomura, Priya Vashishta, University of Southern California January 1, 2013 - Ongoing This CAVE2™ Hybrid Reality Environment simulation depicts the burning of three aluminum nanoparticles at very high temperatures (approximately… Read more |
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ENDURANCE (Environmentally Non-Disturbing Under-ice Robotic ANtarctiC Explorer)
Alessandro Febretti, Andrew Johnson, Electronic Visualization Laboratory; Peter Doran, UIC Earth and Environmental Sciences Department; Stone Aerospace; NASA Ames Research Center; Montana State University January 1, 2013 - Ongoing Professor Peter Doran of the Earth and Environmental Sciences Department at University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) employs virtual-reality to… Read more |
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ENDURANCE (Environmentally Non-Disturbing Under-ice Robotic ANtarctiC Explorer) (SAGE™ Collaboration)
Alessandro Febretti, Andrew Johnson, Electronic Visualization Laboratory; Peter Doran, UIC Earth and Environmental Sciences Department; Stone Aerospace; NASA Ames Research Center; Montana State University January 1, 2013 - Ongoing This application uses EVL’s SAGE™ software to display both 2D and 3D data in the CAVE2™ Hybrid Reality Environment. In a… Read more |
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FixingTIM: Interactive Exploration of Sequence and Structural Data to Identify Functional Mutations in Protein Families
G. Elisabeta Marai, Timothy Luciani, J. Wenskovitch, K. Chen, D. Koes, T. Travers January 1, 2013 - December 31, 2019 We present the design and implementation of a visual mining and analysis tool to help identify protein mutations across family structural models, and… Read more |
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Mars Curiosity (SAGE in CAVE2™)
Luc Renambot October 1, 2012 - Ongoing In this application, participants view several 2-dimensional high-resolution images captured by the Mars Curiosity Rover in EVL’s CAVE2™… Read more |
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Hospital Architecture Study
Jason Leigh September 1, 2012 - Ongoing The CAVE2™ System is a hybrid environment that enables users to mash-up a number of 2D and 3D images at the same time using SAGE™… Read more |
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Gold Nanoparticle
Alessandro Febretti, Jason Leigh, Electronic Visualization Laboratory; Petr Kral Research Group, UIC Department of Chemistry; Vincent M. Rotello Research Group, University of Massachusetts September 1, 2012 - Ongoing Participants can explore the self-assembly of a ligated gold nanoparticle and proteins inside an ionic solution in the CAVE2™ Hybrid Reality… Read more |
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High-Speed Trains
Andrew Johnson, Jason Leigh, Krishna Bharadwaj, Vaibhav Govilkar, Electronic Visualization Laboratory; National University Rail (NURail) Center September 1, 2012 - Ongoing Participants stand inside virtual train tracks in the CAVE2™ System to observe distortion as high-speed trains roar past. This visualization of… Read more |
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Molecular Dynamics Simulation of a Glass Fissure
Jason Leigh, Khairi Reda, Electronic Visualization Laboratory; Aaron Knoll, Mike Papka, Argonne National Laboratory; Kenichi Nomura, Priya Vashishta, University of Southern California September 1, 2012 - Ongoing Participants fly through a close-up of a glass fissure computed in a 5-Million atom molecular dynamics nanoscale simulation. Visualization by Aaron… Read more |
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Electron Density of a Molecular Dataset
Jason Leigh, Khairi Reda, Electronic Visualization Laboratory; Aslihan Sumer, Juliuis Jellineck, Michael Papka, Argonne National Laboratory August 1, 2012 - Ongoing Participants in the CAVE2™ System stand inside a balls-and-sticks model of a molecular chemistry dataset. The clouds represent the density of… Read more |
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BactoGeNIE, the Bacterial Gene Neighborhood Investigation Environment
Jillian Aurisano August 1, 2012 - Ongoing BactoGeNIE, the Bacterial Gene Neighborhood Investigation Environment, is a genome visualization approach developed at Electronic Visualization… Read more |
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omegalib
Alessandro Febretti May 16, 2012 - Ongoing omegalib is middleware designed to ease the development of applications for virtual reality (VR) and immersive display environments. A C++ and Python… Read more |
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Reconstructing the Cerebral Vascular Network
Thomas Marrinan, (Computer Science); Dr. Linninger, Chih Yang Hsu, Ian Gould, (BioEngineering) June 1, 2011 - May 15, 2013 Researchers from the UIC Departments of Computer Science and BioEngineering propose to develop graphical stereoscopic visual applications for a… Read more |
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Rebar Cage
Thomas A. DeFanti, Andre Barbosa, Jurgen Schulze (University of California San Diego); American Bridge Company / Fluor Enterprises Inc. May 1, 2011 - Ongoing Participants walk through a 3D model of an 80x60x20-foot section of the rebar cage of the new San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge. Note that this model… Read more |
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Predictive Computational Models for Orthopaedics
G. Elisabeta Marai, M. A. Haque January 1, 2010 - Ongoing We developed a framework for integrating measured data - such as medical images, tracked motion, and anatomy-book knowledge - into the… Read more |
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Visual Analysis for Tensors in Computational Turbulent Combustion
G. Elisabeta Marai, Timothy Luciani, P. Givi, M.A. Haque, A. Maries, M. Nik, P. Pisciuneri, S. L. Yilmaz January 1, 2010 - Ongoing Simulation and modeling of turbulent flow, and of turbulent reacting flowin particular, involves solving for and analyzing time-dependent and… Read more |
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Astroshelf: Panning and Zooming the Observable Universe
G. Elisabeta Marai, Timothy Luciani, B. Cherinka, P. Chrysanthis, A. Conn, R. Hachey, M. Liegey, S. Myers, J. Newman, D. Oliphant, M. Seiler, M. Wood-Vasey January 1, 2010 - Ongoing The growing onslaught of astronomical data available presents a great challenge. Astronomy lacks an easy-to-use and scalable way to collect and… Read more |
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SAGE on Argonne’s Highly Interactive Parallelized Display Wall
Hyejung Hur, Jason Leigh November 16, 2009 - August 15, 2011 The research collaboration between Argonne National Laboratory’s Center for Nanoscale Materials (CNM) and the Electronic Visualization… Read more |
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Cli-Mate: An Interactive Climate Application for TacTile Multi-touch Display
Ed Kahler, Jason Leigh, Mark Hereld, Michael Papka (Argonne National Laboratory) November 1, 2009 - October 31, 2011 Cli-Mate is an interactive multi-touch application for the visualization of climate data. Developed to explore new interaction modalities with the… Read more |
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Laser Emitting Diode for Stabilization of Cutaneous Battlefield Wounds for Air Evacuation and Transport
Andrew Johnson, Jason Leigh, Paul Grenning, Maxine Brown, Patrick Hallihan, Victor Mateevitsi, Yiwen Sun September 30, 2009 - November 14, 2011 Wartime injuries present extreme problems in wound management and the modern battlefield places extraordinary adaptability demands on combat medical… Read more |
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Research, Analysis, and Databasing of Emerging High Power Directed Energy Technologies Marketed to the Clinical and Research Communities
Andrew Johnson, Jason Leigh, Patrick Hallihan, Victor Mateevitsi, Yiwen Sun September 30, 2009 - September 29, 2015 This project applies a multidisciplinary approach to the assessment of medical devices and laboratory equipment that utilize directed energy (DE)… Read more |
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Hands-on Automated Nursing Data System (HANDS)
Alessandro Febretti, Andrew Johnson, Yu-Chung Chen, Gail M. Keenan and Diana Wilke (University of Florida College of Nursing); Karen Dunn Lopez (UIC College of Nursing) September 18, 2009 - May 31, 2015 The Hands-on Automated Nursing Data System (HANDS) is a standardized plan of care method in which the patient’s plan is updated at every nurse… Read more |
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OptIPlanet Cyber-Mashup
Andrew Johnson, Jason Leigh, Luc Renambot, Maxine Brown September 1, 2009 - August 31, 2012 STCI: OptIPlanet Cyber-Mashup: Persistent Visualization and Collaboration Services for Global Cyber Infrastructure The goal of this project is to… Read more |
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Future Earth Initiative
Andrew Johnson, Jason Leigh, Khairi Reda, Science Museum of Minnesota April 1, 2009 - December 31, 2011 EVL is working with the Science Museum of Minnesota on a museum exhibit titled Future Earth. This exhibit addresses the long-term human impact on out… Read more |
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Articulate: a Semi-automated System for Translating Natural Language Queries into Meaningful Visualizations
Abeer Alsaiari, Abhinav Kumar, Andrew Johnson, Jason Leigh, Jillian Aurisano, Joe Borowicz, Luc Renambot, Vijayraj Mahida, Yiwen Sun, Barbara DiEugenio March 1, 2009 - Ongoing While many visualization tools exist that offer sophisticated functions for charting complex data, they still expect users to possess a high degree… Read more |
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Rising Tide
Andrew Johnson, Jason Leigh, Khairi Reda January 1, 2009 - December 31, 2011 EVL collaborators at the Science Museum of Minnesota (SMM) built a TacTile multi-touch display in 2009 after seeing it at EVL, and made several… Read more |
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TacTile
Andrew Johnson, Arthur Nishimoto, Ed Kahler, Jason Leigh, Jenny Kinahan, Karan Chakrapani, Lance Long, Naomi Yarin, Robert Kooima, Todd Richard Silvia August 16, 2008 - October 15, 2011 TacTile is a multi-touch 52-inch LCD tabletop display design to support collaborative applications through a highly intuitive, multi-user touch… Read more |
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Visual Analysis of Social Behavior of Wild Animals
Khairi Reda August 16, 2008 - August 16, 2009 Understanding the social interaction of wild animals in the context of their ecology is imperative to the conservation of endangered species. Our… Read more |
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MERRA Computation Using LambdaRAM
Venkatram Vishwanath, Software Integration and Visualization Office (SIVO), NASA Goddard Space Flight Center May 16, 2008 - November 4, 2008 Data-intensive scientific applications require rapid access to local and geographically distributed data, however, there are significant I/O latency… Read more |
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Cyber-Commons
Andrew Johnson, Jason Leigh January 1, 2008 - January 1, 2018 A Cyber-Commons is a technology-enhanced meeting room on a university campus that supports local and distance collaboration and promotes… Read more |
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Planetary-scale Terrain Composition
Robert Kooima August 1, 2007 - October 23, 2008 Planetary-scale Terrain Composition is a GPU-centric real-time approach to generating and rendering planetary bodies composed of arbitrary quantities… Read more |
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NASA Environmentally Non-Disturbing Under-ice Robotic ANtarctiC Explorer (ENDURANCE)
Alessandro Febretti, Andrew Johnson, Ratko Jagodic, Shriram Iyer, Peter Doran (PI UIC); John Priscu (Montana State University); Christopher McKay (NASA Ames Research Center); Bill Stone (Stone Aerospace) May 1, 2007 - April 30, 2010 NASA’s Astrobiology Science and Technology for Exploring Planets (ASTEP) Program is supporting ENDURANCE - the Environmentally Non-Disturbing… Read more |
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Towards Lifelike Computer Interfaces that Learn
Andrew Johnson, Gordon Carlson, Jason Leigh, Luc Renambot, Sangyoon Lee, Steve Jones, (EVL); Avelino J Gonzalez, Ronald F DeMara (University of Central Florida) February 15, 2007 - January 30, 2010 This collaborative research project investigates, develops and evaluates lifelike, natural computer interfaces as portals to intelligent programs in… Read more |
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Tellurion
Robert Kooima January 1, 2007 - December 30, 2008 Tellurion is a real-time planetary-scale data visualization. It uses a GPU-based algorithm to adaptively tessellate the sphere and apply terrain… Read more |
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Constellations
Robert Kooima January 1, 2007 - October 1, 2012 Individuals standing in the CAVE2™ System interactively fly through Earth’s galaxy to observe constellations from different viewpoints… Read more |
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Mars
Robert Kooima January 1, 2007 - October 1, 2012 Participants interactively fly around a 3D representation of Mars in the CAVE2™ System. The 3D model was originally created by EVL graduate… Read more |
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Adler Planetarium and Astronomy Museum’s Space Visualization Laboratory
Andrew Johnson, Jason Leigh, Robert Kooima December 1, 2006 - Ongoing EVL has been working with the Adler Planetarium over the last several years to deploy EVL’s advanced visualization display technologies and… Read more |
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Solar Video Visualization for the NASA / NRL STEREO Satellite Mission
Andrew Johnson, Cole Krumbholz, Jason Leigh, Lance Long, Luc Renambot, Tae Jin Kim June 1, 2006 - May 1, 2007 The ??STEREO?? mission, scheduled for launch in late October, will capture the first ever stereo solar imagery by sending two telescope suites in… Read more |
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RainTable
Andrew Johnson, Dmitri Svistula, Jason Leigh, Patrick Hamilton (Science Museum of Minnesota) and Paul Morin (Department of Geology at the University of Minnesota) January 15, 2006 - June 17, 2009 RainTable is an interactive multi-user application developed by the Electronic Visualization Laboratory (EVL) at the University of Illinois at… Read more |
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Dynallax: Dynamic Parallax Barrier Autostereoscopic Display
Daniel J. Sandin, Javier Girado, Jinghua Ge, Robert Kooima, Tom Peterka, Jason Leigh, Andrew Johnson, Jurgen Schulze (UCSD), Thomas A. DeFanti January 1, 2006 - Ongoing Parallax barrier strip autostereoscopic virtual reality displays such as Varrier™ have been constructed by placing a barrier of lines in front… Read more |
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Visualcasting
Byungil Jeong January 1, 2006 - Ongoing Visualcasting is a new SAGE network service that supports global collaboration by enabling two or more users to share application content, sending… Read more |
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Distributed Volume Rendering of Very Large Data on High-Resolution Scalable Displays
Nicholas Schwarz January 1, 2006 - December 31, 2007 Scientific instruments increasing collect higher spatial resolution samples providing scientists with larger volumetric datasets. For example… Read more |
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PAVIS: Pervasive Adaptive Visualization and Interaction Service
Andrew Johnson, Arun Rao, Brenda Lopez Silva, Jason Leigh, Javid Alimohideen, Julieta Aguilera, Luc Renambot, Robert Grossman, Mike Sabala December 10, 2005 - May 15, 2007 PAVIS: Pervasive Adaptive Visualization and Interaction Service is an adaptive system intended to automatically generate resource-aware… Read more |
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Corelyzer
Andrew Johnson, Arun Rao, Jason Leigh, Sangyoon Lee, Yu-Chung Chen September 1, 2005 - Ongoing Ice cores drilled from lake and ocean floors, continents, and ice sheets provide geoscientists with the most extensive and accurate picture of the… Read more |
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OptIPuter and Global Lambda Visualization Facility (GLVF)
Alan Verlo, Jason Leigh, Luc Renambot, Maxine Brown, Thomas A. DeFanti September 1, 2005 - Ongoing The Global Lambda Visualization Facility (GLVF), established in September 2005, addresses the need to integrate visualization and collaboration… Read more |
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Magic Carpet
Andrew Johnson, Dmitri Svistula, Jason Leigh, Paul Morin, Science Museum of Minnesota August 16, 2005 - August 15, 2006 MagicCarpet is a cluster-based ultra-high-resolution image viewer for scalable tiled displays. Unlike JuxtaView, MagicCarpet uses pre-processed… Read more |
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GeoWall2 for Informal Science Education in Museums
Andrew Johnson, Jason Leigh, Patrick Hamilton, Science Museum of Minnesota, Paul Morin, Geology and Geophysics, University of Minnesota May 1, 2005 - January 13, 2009 The GeoWall2 is a tiled advanced visualization system (5x3 array of LCD panels) designed to cost-effectively serve Geoscience applications that… Read more |
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A Point-Based Remote Visualization Pipeline For Large-Scale Virtual Reality
Jinghua Ge March 1, 2005 - March 1, 2007 This research project focuses on a distributed visualization pipeline which combines VR technologies and remote computing resources through high… Read more |
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LambdaCam
Rajvikram Singh December 1, 2004 - June 1, 2005 LambdaCam is a real-time screen capture and distribution utility for cluster driven tiled-displays. It allows users to remotely view the output of… Read more |
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Electro
Robert Kooima August 16, 2004 - Ongoing Electro is an application development environment designed for use on both cluster-driven tiled displays and desktop systems. Electro is based on the… Read more |
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Haptics-Based Virtual Reality Periodontal Training Simulator
Cristian J. Luciano, Thomas A. DeFanti August 16, 2004 - October 17, 2006 The haptics-based virtual reality periodontal training simulator project focuses upon the research and development of a prototype dental simulator… Read more |
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ImmersiveTouch™
Cristian J. Luciano, Greg Dawe, Pat Banerjee, Lucian Florea August 1, 2004 - Ongoing ImmersiveTouch™ is the next generation of augmented virtual reality technology. ImmersiveTouch™ is the first system that integrates a… Read more |
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LambdaTable
Andrew Johnson, Cole Krumbholz, Hyejung Hur, Jason Leigh August 1, 2004 - June 17, 2009 The LambdaTable is a tiled LCD tabletop display connected to high-bandwidth optical networks that supports interactive group-based visualization of… Read more |
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CoreWall
Andrew Johnson, Arun Rao, Jason Leigh, Luc Renambot, Nicholas Schwarz, Yu-Chung Chen, Paul Morin (University of Minnesota) May 16, 2004 - May 15, 2011 CoreWall is an integrated visualization tool for the study of lake and ocean sediment cores. It is a collaborative project among the University of… Read more |
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LambdaVision
Andrew Johnson, Byungil Jeong, Charles Zhang, Jason Leigh, Luc Renambot, Naveen Krishnaprasad, Nicholas Schwarz, Rajvikram Singh, Ratko Jagodic, Venkatram Vishwanath May 1, 2004 - August 31, 2008 LambdaVision is an ultra-high-resolution visualization and networking instrument for research and education in geoscience, computer science and other… Read more |
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The Personal GeoWall 2 (PG-2)
Andrew Johnson, Jason Leigh, Luc Renambot, Nicholas Schwarz, Arun Rao January 1, 2004 - May 1, 2004 GeoWall is an affordable PC / Mac / Linux 3D passive-stereo projection display developed by the University of Illinois at Chicago, Electronic… Read more |
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ImmersaView Launcher
Allan Spale July 1, 2003 - November 9, 2004 ImmersaView Launcher is an application that allows a user to run ImmersaView remotely from any computer and transfer the appropriate files from the… Read more |
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Transitive
Brenda Lopez Silva, Luc Renambot, Naveen Krishnaprasad, Shalini Venkataraman April 30, 2003 - August 30, 2004 The Transitive project was conceived and developed as a means to visualize point-to-point file transfers like those most commonly exchanged on the… Read more |
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The OptIPuter
Alan Verlo, Jason Leigh, Luc Renambot, Maxine Brown, Thomas A. DeFanti, Tom Moher, Larry Smarr (CalIT2), Bob Grossman (NCDM / UIC) October 1, 2002 - September 30, 2007 related url: www.evl.uic.edu/cavern/optiputer The OptIPuter is a five-year, $13.9 million National Science Foundation funded project to interconnect… Read more |
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The OptIPlanet Collaboratory
Jason Leigh, Luc Renambot, Maxine Brown, Thomas A. DeFanti October 1, 2002 - September 30, 2008 VIEW OptIPortal WORLD LOCATIONS From 2002-2008, EVL has been part of the NSF-funded OptIPuter project, the goal of which is to develop advanced… Read more |
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Wiggleview
Andrew Johnson, Atul Nayak, Jason Leigh September 1, 2002 - August 30, 2003 Wiggleview is a tool developed by the Electronic Visualization Laboratory (EVL) at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) for visualizing… Read more |
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GeoWall Consortium
Andrew Johnson, Jason Leigh, Paul Morin, Department of Geology and Geophysics, University of Minnesota, Peter van Keken, Geological Sciences, University of Michigan May 1, 2002 - August 1, 2005 The GeoWall is low-cost, non-tracked, passive-stereo system that allows distributed audiences to view and interact with 3D immersive content. While… Read more |
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JuxtaView
Andrew Johnson, Jason Leigh, Luc Renambot, Naveen Krishnaprasad, Nicholas Schwarz, Shalini Venkataraman January 16, 2002 - January 15, 2005 JuxtaView is a tool designed specifically for scalable tiled displays to visualize extremely high-resolution images. Scientists are finding an… Read more |
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Effective Use of Large Visualization Displays
Andrew Johnson, Byungil Jeong, Hyejung Hur, Jason Leigh, Khairi Reda, Luc Renambot, Ratko Jagodic January 2, 2002 - Ongoing Global-scale cyberinfrastructure, whether sensor nets or supercomputers, is transforming the way teams of scientists and engineers study and… Read more |
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Immersive Design and Fabrication of Cranial Implants on PARIS™
Andrew Johnson, Chris Scharver, Jason Leigh, Vaidya Chandrasekhar, Ray Evenhouse, School of Biomedical and Health Information Sciences September 1, 2001 - August 31, 2006 The Electronic Visualization Laboratory (EVL) at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) in cooperation with UIC’s Virtual Reality in… Read more |
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Remote Data Mining, Visualization and Collaboration on Tera-Nodes
Jason Leigh, Thomas A. DeFanti, Robert Grossman August 1, 2001 - September 1, 2005 The goal of this project is to develop advanced data mining, visualization and collaboration technologies that maximize the use of high-speed Gigabit… Read more |
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ImmersaView
Allan Spale, Andrew Johnson, Atul Nayak, Chris Scharver, Jason Leigh, Vikas Chowdry August 1, 2001 - July 30, 2002 Immersaview is an Open Inventor / VRML model viewer for the GeoWall / AGAVE. The data can be a single Inventor model or a flipbook of models that you… Read more |
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TeraScope
Charles Zhang, Jason Leigh, Rajvikram Singh August 1, 2001 - August 1, 2002 TeraScope is a massively parallelized set of information visualization tools for Visual Data Mining. TeraScope enables researchers to interactively… Read more |
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Personal Varrier™ Autostereo Display
Daniel J. Sandin, Javier Girado, Jinghua Ge, Robert Kooima, Thomas A. DeFanti, Tom Peterka August 1, 2001 - August 31, 2005 The Personal Varrier™ display consists of a 30” LCD widescreen display with 2560x1600 native resolution. A photographic film barrier… Read more |
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Collaboration and Visualization over High Speed Networks
Andrew Johnson, Chris Scharver, Dave Pape, Jason Leigh, Javier Girado, Kyoung Shin Park, Michael Lewis, Naveen Krishnaprasad, Yongjoo Cho, T. Imai, R. Fang, Y. Lin, T. Portlock, B. Silva, L. Wang, J. Eliason, J. Ge, E. He, A. Nayak, S. Venkatamaran March 1, 2001 - February 28, 2003 This research focuses on the development of Tele-immersive (collaborative virtual reality) applications, the middleware (software infrastructure)… Read more |
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Image-based Measurements and Models
G. Elisabeta Marai January 1, 2001 - Ongoing With appropriate tools, models of small structures that are currently not measurable directly can be inferred from medical image data. We introduced… Read more |
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TIDE: Tele-Immersive Data Explorer
Andrew Johnson, Chris Scharver, Jason Leigh, Nikita Sawant, G. Reinhart, S. Batchu, E. Creel, S. Bailey, R. Grossman May 1, 1999 - June 1, 2000 The Tele-Immersive Data Explorer is a CAVERNsoft-based collaborative, immersive environment for querying and visualizing data from massive and… Read more |
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CIBRView: Collaborative Image Based Rendering
Andrew Johnson, Jason Leigh, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory January 1, 1999 - July 1, 2000 The Collaborative Image Based Rendering Viewer (or CIBRView) is a CAVERNsoft-based tool for viewing animated sequences of image based renderings from… Read more |
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35 Panel Cylindrical Varrier™ Autostereo Display
Daniel J. Sandin, Jason Leigh, Jinghua Ge, Javier Girado, Todd Margolis, Tom Peterka January 1, 1999 - Ongoing The Cylindrical Varrier™ display consists of 35 LCD panels tiled in a 7x5 configuration with a 6’x8’ footprint. A photographic film… Read more |
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LIMBO / VTK
Jason Leigh, Paul J. Rajlich, Robert J. Stein September 1, 1998 - May 15, 2001 LIMBO / VTK combines LIMBO with the Visualization Toolkit to allow application developers to use the rich set of visualization tools built into VTK… Read more |
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NCSA: National Computational Science Alliance
Thomas A. DeFanti, L. Smarr, R. Abdulla, C. Bender, D. Ceperley, J. Connolly, R. GileJ. Hennessy, K. Kennedy;. McRae, J. Ostriker, D. Reed, R. Stevens, M. Vernon, P. Woodward October 1, 1997 - September 30, 2005 After 10 years, the NSF Supercomputer Centers Program was replaced with the NSF Partnerships for Advanced Computational Infrastructure (PACI)… Read more |
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Alliance Expeditions
Jason Leigh, Maxine Brown, Thomas A. DeFanti, National Center for Supercomputing Applications, Argnonne National Laboratory, Network for Earthquake Simulation, Earthscope, GriPhyN, TeraGrid communities October 1, 1997 - September 30, 2004 For the past 17 years, EVL’s partnership with NCSA and the Alliance has enabled the rapid deployment and acceptance of EVL’s advanced… Read more |
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CAVE6D
Abhinav Kapoor, Jason Leigh, G.H. Wheless, C. Lascara - Center for Coastal Physcial Oceanography, Old Dominion University January 1, 1997 - December 1, 1999 CAVE5D, co-developed by Wheless and Lascara from ODU and Dr. Bill Hibbard from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, is a configurable virtual reality… Read more |
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Participatory Artificial Life Demonstration
Matthew Szymanski, Michael E. Papka, Terry Disz, Terry Franguiadakis, Rick Stevens December 3, 1995 - December 8, 1995 The science being visualized is a demonstration of artificial life by generating computer programs that mimic organic life in simple ways. The… Read more |
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IMAX Cosmic Voyage
Marcus Thiebaux, R. Patterson, D. Cox, E. Wesselak, C. Mihos, L. Hernquist, F. Summers January 1, 1995 - March 1, 1995 Two high-resolution astrophysical simulations are explored, choreographed, and rendered. The first is a visualization of the collision / merging of… Read more |
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Walkabout
Andrew Johnson January 1, 1995 - December 16, 2002 Walkabout is an application that allows users to explore geo-referenced terrains. It is an educational application for elementary school kids to… Read more |
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Jason Interactive Mapper
Dave Pape, G. Feldman, R. Haleblian, A. Maffei, M. Marra, C. Molyneaux, K. Stewart July 1, 1994 - July 15, 1994 The JASON is an underwater remotely operated vehicle operated by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute. This virtual-reality demonstration re-enacts… Read more |
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Interactive Adaptive Mesh Refinement
Michael E. Papka, Steven Cohen, Lori Freitag, Mark Jones, Paul Plassmann, John Rowlan July 1, 1994 - July 15, 1994 Adaptive mesh refinement / derefinement techniques have been shown to be very successful in reducing the computational and storage requirements for… Read more |
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Parallel Real-Time Radiosity
Craig Barnes, Jon Goldman July 1, 1994 - July 15, 1994 This application demonstrates how parallel architectures are being used to render scenes in real time or close-to-real-time using physically based… Read more |
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The SIGGRAPH 94 Daily Weather Forecast
Bill Hibbard, Steven Cohen, Brian Paul, Andre Battaiola, Gregory Tripoli, Peter Pokrant July 1, 1994 - July 15, 1994 Interactive 3D visualization has proved its value for finding and understanding problems with numerical simulations of the atmosphere. Scientists are… Read more |
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Interactive Molecular Modeling Using Real-Time Molecular Dynamics Simulations and Virtual Reality Computer Graphics
Carolina Cruz-Neira, Paul Bash;eorge Lent July 1, 1994 - July 14, 1994 Using real-time interactive molecular modeling and molecular dynamics simulations, this project demonstrates the docking of a drug molecule to its… Read more |
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Simulation of a Grinding Process in Virtual Reality
Michael E. Papka, Thomas Canifield, William Jester, John Rowlan, Edward Plaskacz July 1, 1994 - July 15, 1994 Simulation of a grinding process in the CAVE enables users to explore a commonly used manufacturing process from an entirely new vantage point. An… Read more |
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SANDBOX: Scientists Accessing Necessary Data Based on eXperimentation
Andrew Johnson, Farshad Fotouhi July 1, 1994 - July 15, 1994 Scientific databases contain enormous amounts of data collected through experimentation. They are accessed by investigators from many disciplines… Read more |
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Computational Modeling for Crashworthiness of Electric Vehicles Using Nonlinear Finite Element Methods
Roger Engelman, Bruce Engelmann, Robert Whirley July 1, 1994 - July 15, 1994 This project uses transient nonlinear finite element analysis to model the crash-worthiness of a vehicle modified from gasoline to electric power… Read more |
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Scientific Visualization of Gyrofluid Tokamak Turbulence Simulation
Alan Verlo, G. Kerbel, R. Waltz, D. Shumaker, J. Milovich;. Hammett, M. Beer, The Numerical Tokamak Project Consortium July 1, 1994 - July 15, 1994 High-performance algorithms for simulating and visualizing 3D plasma turbulence in magnetic fusion experiments have been developed as an aid in the… Read more |
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Post-Euclidean Walkabout
Joanna Mason, G. Francis, C. Hartman, U. Axen, A. Arias, P. McCreary;. Chappell July 1, 1994 - July 15, 1994 This real-time interactive CAVE application takes you on a visit to the post-Euclidean geometry of Gauss, Riemann, Klein, Poincare, and Thurston… Read more |
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Phase and Amplitude Maps of the Electric Organ Discharge of the Weakly Electric Fish
Jason Leigh, Thomas A. DeFanti, C. Assad, B. Rasnow, J. Bower July 1, 1994 - July 15, 1994 This demonstration models the Apteronotus Leptorhynchus (commonly known as the Brown Ghost). It displays simulated data of the electric fields… Read more |
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Spacetime Splashes: Catching the Wave of Einstein’s Equations
Jon Goldman, Trina Roy, Joan Masso, Ed Seidel, Paul Walker, Dan Weber November 1, 1992 - July 15, 1994 Astrophysicists are interested in applying virtual reality and scientific visualization to spacetime simulations to help them better understand and… Read more |
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The Fluid Universe: Rayleigh-Taylor Instability in Fluid Flow
Jon Goldman, Trina Roy, Greg Bryan, Mike Norman November 1, 1992 - July 15, 1994 This interactive simulation of Rayleigh-Taylor instability shows what happens when a heavier fluid lies on top of a lighter fluid. The gravitational… Read more |
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Topological Surface Deformation
Alan Verlo, Louis H. Kauffman November 1, 1992 - July 15, 1994 The CAVE’s immersive virtual environment enables participants to walk around mathematical shapes, step through complex surfaces, or move a… Read more |
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The Fluid Universe: Formation of Structures After the Big Bang
Jon Goldman, Trina Roy, M. Norman, G. Bryan November 1, 1992 - November 1, 1993 The physics of fluid flow coupled with gravity is of crucial importance to the understanding of many astrophysical phenomena. In this application… Read more |
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Blowing Snow
Daniel J. Sandin November 1, 1992 - November 1, 1993 “Blowing Snow” is a simplified simulation of wind interacting with the person who is being tracked inside the CAVE. CAVE participants… Read more |
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Mathenautics: Three-Eighths of Thurston’s Eight-Fold Way
Daniel J. Sandin, Randy Hudson (1951-2020), George Francis, Charlie Gunn, The Geometry Center November 1, 1992 - November 1, 1993 Mathematicians study the behavior of lines and curves on the surfaces of different shapes, such as a sphere and a donut-shaped torus. While these… Read more |
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Distributed VIS-5D for Large Atmospheric Simulations
Bill Hibbard, Steven Cohen, B. Paul, A. Battaiola, G. Tripoli, P. Pokrandt November 1, 1992 - November 1, 1993 A simulation of Hurricane Gilbert, using VIS-5D software, lets CAVE participants stand inside the hurricane, experiencing such phenomena as wind… Read more |
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The Cosmic Explorer
Carolina Cruz-Neira, Michael Norman, Deyand Song August 1, 1991 - August 1, 1992 “The Cosmic Explorer” is a research tool for exploring the stages of the evolution of the universe. We visualize the result of numerical… Read more |
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Realistic Modeling of Brain Structures with Remote Interaction between Simulations of the Inferior Olivary Neuron & the Cerebellar Purkinje Cell
Jason Leigh, Computational Neuroscience Lab at CALTECH August 1, 1991 - August 1, 1992 Up until now, modeling of single neurons and neural networks has been relegated to single workstations or parallel computers. Our work involves the… Read more |
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Mapping of Cognitive Function with Subdural Electrodes & Registration of Cerebral Evoked Potentials on 3-D MRI
Marty Ryan, Robert Grzeszczuk, Steven Cohen, Vernon Towle August 1, 1991 - August 1, 1992 This application is an example of sensory evoked potentials mapped onto a 3D surface model of a human head. Included in the model is a 3D brain… Read more |
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Remote Visualization of XRay Diffraction Data from the X8C Beamline at NSLS
Craig Barnes, Ed Westbrook August 1, 1991 - July 1, 1992 This project allows for crystallographic data to be remotely collected from the XC8 Beamline located at Brookhaven National Laboratory. This beamline… Read more |
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Visualization for the Management of Renewable Resources in an Uncertain Environment
Chris Pratico, A. Hanson, H.H. Xu, D.J. Jarvis, M.S. Vetter August 1, 1991 - August 1, 1992 The management of renewable resources such as commercial and recreational fisheries can be difficult due to lack of data, environmental uncertainty… Read more |
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Datamax UV-1
Thomas A. DeFanti January 1, 1980 - January 1, 1981 The Datamax UV-1 was a pioneering computer designed by a working group of computer graphics artists at the University of Illinois at Chicago. The… Read more |
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Sandin Image Processor (IP)
Daniel J. Sandin January 1, 1971 - January 1, 1973 Between 1971 and 1973, Dan Sandin designed and built the Sandin Image Processor (IP) a patch programmable analog computer for real-time manipulation… Read more |
