Examples of Scientific Visualisation

-- RobAllan - 02 Mar 2010

VACET

DOE SciDAC Visualisation and Analytics Center for Enabling Technologies, using SciRun, VisIt, ImageVis3D and VisTrails. Application areas: General, Accelerator, Adaptive Mesh Refinement, Astrophysics, Book & Journal Covers, Climate, Combustion, Fundamental Algorithms, Fusion, High-D Data Visualization, Ray Tracing, Turbulent Flow, Software, Statistical Visualization.

• images and videos

Henry Moseley X-Ray Imaging Centre

A variety of research topics, mostly using Avizo.

• information and images

FLASH Center, University of Chicago

Using VisIt with Flash for research in high energy density physics.

• gallery
• movies

UCSF

Chimera

• gallery
• animations

UIUC

VMD

• gallery

CEI

• video and other examples - using enSight

from UK VizNet Consortium

• Heart model rendering - Lakshmi Sastry et al. using ParaView
• Engineering design - Phil Withers et al.
• Exploration of large datasets - Mike Parker et al. using RTRT from University of Utah
• Heart model rendering - Chris Goodyer et al. using oView
• Molecular modelling - N. Zonta et al. using ZODIAC with haptic devices
• Materials Engineering - Kevin Tan et al. using an augmented reality toolkit
• Volume Rendering - George Leaver et al. using AVS/ Express on CPU/ GPU combinations

from Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute at U. Utah

Software used: SciRun and ImageVis3D.

• http://www.sci.utah.edu/gallery2/main.php
• VACET - physics and engineering
• CIBC - integrative bio-medicine
• CSAFE - fires and explosions
• SCI - scientific computing and imaging core research
• UCNIA - neuro-image analysis
• MRL - musculo-skeletal studies
• SSE - scientific software environments
• NCR - computational neuro-science

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Gallery of inages created using VisIt

• https://wci.llnl.gov/codes/visit/gallery.html

University of Illinois

Galleries of images and movies from the Theoretical and Computational Biophysics Group using VMD:

• http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Gallery/Science/Structure/
• http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Gallery/Science/Old/
• http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Gallery/Movies/

from Tech-X Corporation

Software used: Vorpal and VisIt.

• SciDac award winning visual Inspection of a crab cavity modelled using Vorpal: http://www.txcorp.com/SciDAC08/ to download .mov files
• Visualisations by Peter Messmer - using Vorpal models of electromagnetic cavities, laser wakefield acceleration and many others.

from Technium (University of Bangor)

• images
• movies

Interactive Visualisation Lab, University of Minnesota

• Bio-mechanics
• Scientific user interfaces
• Bio-flows and medical devices

from Virtalis

• general VR demo click on the video link

from VSG

Software used: Avizo, see the examples under Media Gallery.