Visualization Resources
Visualization Resources for Education
The following list of resources and information begins with a series of exemplary applications categorized by the various scales they most closely pertain to. These examples are followed by brief overviews of issues related to visualization. Finally, a partial list of hardware and software technology resources is provided.
Applications: The Microscopic Scale
Physics
Molecular Exploration
Rasmol (a precursor to Protein Explorer)
Virtual Molecular Dynamics Laboratory
Applications: The Anthroscopic Scale
Medical Research
The Visible Human Project
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/research/visible/visible_human.html
The Digital Anatomist
http://www9.biostr.washington.edu/da.html
Muscle Physiology
http://www.sci.sdsu.edu/movies/actin_myosin.html
Applications: The Geoscopic Scale
Geophysics of Earthquakes
Geo-referenced Heterogeneous Data Integration and Visualization for Earthquake Disaster Mitigation
Scripps Vizlab, Debi Kilb
ECCSE, Sara Whipple, Jeff Sale
Visual Geophysical Exploration Environment
9/11 Pentagon Crash Simulation
http://www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/cmh/simulation/index.html
Earth Flythroughs
Terra Explorer , from Skyline Software (not to be confused with Microsoft's Terra Server)
Google Earth, the best free and commercially available and reasonably affordable 3D planetary flythrough program
Geofusion , tremendous potential, a bit pricey ($8000, or $2500 for one year), recently announced as the 3D tool to be integrated into ESRI's ArcGIS system, and major accomplishment.
World Wind, a free application from NASA's JPL. Very cool, a bit buggy, but very oriented towards academic and not commercial applications.
Urban Modeling
Virtual Los Angeles, UCLA
http://www.ust.ucla.edu/ustweb/ust.html
3D Regional Planning, Tampa Planning Commission (using Terra Explorer from Skyline Software)
http://www.plancom.org/visual/webpages/startmenu.htm
ENVIRONMENTAL SIMULATION CENTER, LTD.
http://www.simcenter.org/About_Us/about_us.html
Ecological Modeling
http://landscape.forest.wisc.edu/Projects/Visualization/visualization.html
Wisconsin Coastal GIS Applications Project
http://coastal.lic.wisc.edu/visualization/Visualization.htm
James Reserve - UC Irvine, Michael Hamilton, Director
http://www.jamesreserve.edu/news.html
Shockwave 3D Interactive Interface to SDSU Field Station Data
http://www.edcenter.sdsu.edu/3d/fuse3d/
Regional Planning and Decision-making: the Regional WorkBench Consortium
World-building programs
VTP's e xtensive list of Commercial Terrain Tools & Software Packages
Device-Independent Virtual Environments - Reconfigurable, Scalable, Extensible (DIVERSE)
Network Traffic Visualization
http://www.caida.org/tools/visualization/walrus/gallery1/
Applications: The Macroscopic Scale
3D Space Simulation
Celestia: A 3D Space Simulator
Astrophysics
NPACI Milky Way/Andromeda Collision
http://www.npaci.edu/online/v4.9/galaxies2.html
NASA Images of Earth and Space (from NASA's Computational Technologies Project)
http://sdcd.gsfc.nasa.gov/ESS/images2/transcript.html
Orion Nebula Simulation
http://vis.sdsc.edu/research/orion.html
'Visualization' is not Synonymous with '3D':
Brief Overview of 1D and 2D Viz
Dots and Lines and Areas
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Time as the 3rd dimension
Cascade (Waterfall) Plots
Compressed Spectral Array
Spatiotemporal Isosurfaces
Spatiotemporal isosurfaces are a way of representing 2-dimensional data as it changes over time. Learn more...
Perception Issues in Visualization
The visual system is just a part of your perceptual repertoire
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| This is your brain... | This is your visual system... |
Excerpts from Mike Bailey's 1999 GA Plasma Workshop Presentation on Visualization
Sensitivity to Visible Emission Spectrum of the Sun
http://sd.znet.com/~schester/facts/solar_energy.html
3D Stereo Modes of Representation
Freeviewing Stereograms
How to 'freeview' 3D stereograms
Stereograms for 3D Models of SDSU and Mission Trails Regional Park
http://www.studio3d.com/pages/compstereo.html
Polarized Display (Screen or Glasses)
Stereographics Corp.
http://www.stereographics.com/
Panoram Technologies Corp.
http://www.panoramtech.com/
Chromadepth
http://dvl.sdsc.edu/chromadepth/
Traditional Stereoscopes
http://www.studio3d.com/pages/compstereo.html
3D Visualization "Hardcopy"
SDSC's Telemanufacturing Facility
http://www.sdsc.edu/tmf/Examples/examples.html
Immersive or "Pseudo-immersive" 3D Technologies
Electronic Visualization Lab (EVL) CAVERN
Stereographics Corp.
http://www.stereographics.com/
Panoram Technologies Corp.
http://www.panoramtech.com/
Spatial Tracking Systems
Force-feedback Systems
Local Visualization Centers
SDSC Visualization Center
The SDSC Visualization Lab is headed by Dr. Mike Bailey. Mike is one of the leaders at educating the world about the various issues involved in visualization, bringing it down to earth and making it understandable.
UCSD/Scripps Vizlab
Scripps Institute of Oceanography, Institute for Geophysics and Planetary Physics
Ida and Helen Green Visualization Center (the Revelle Conference Room)
Debi Kilb, Director, Geophysicist
http://www.calit2.net/visualization/dedication_3-4-02.html
Visualization Software, Hardware, Organizations
Software
Advanced Visualization System (AVS) and Muse
http://www.avs.com/
OpenDX
Open Source version of IBM's Data Explorer
http://www.opendx.org/
ViPEr
http://www.scripps.edu/~sanner/python/viper/index.html
3D Active Chart
http://www.rinvoice.com/activechart.htm
SPIRE, Pacific Northwest Labs
http://www.pnl.gov/infoviz/
Starlight, Pacific Northwest Labs
http://starlight.pnl.gov/
SCIRun
http://software.sci.utah.edu/
Fledermaus and IView 3D
POV Ray (Persistence Of View Ray Tracer)
SDSC MPIRE
http://mpire.sdsc.edu/
Hardware
SGI Onyx 3000 Series - 141 million triangles per second and 3.8 billion pixels per second to a single display
SGI Onyx 300 - 32 MIPS® R14000TM 600 MHz CPUs and up to 8 InfiniteReality family graphics pipes. It offers up to 11.2Gbytes per second of sustained I/O bandwidth
Desktop Graphics Card Overview
Organizations
ACM SIGs, particularly SIGGRAPH, SIGCHI
Additional Links
Collaborative Visualization
Walden RC-SIG Earth Science Collaborative Visualization
EPIC Education Data Portal, SDSC Education Group, 2005