Annotated Scientific Visualization Weblet BibliographyAnnotated Scientific Visualization Weblet BibliographyThis page is an annotated bibliography of (hopefully) all scientific visualization weblets,it is a service of theThe NAS Applied Research BranchVisualization Group.Last change: 25 July 1994.Scientific Visualization Weblets Universities The REINAS Projectat the University of California at Santa Cruz. The REINASproject involves Monterey Bay environmental data aquisition, management,and visualization. The weblet includes some pretty pictures,descriptions of facilities, equipment and staff, many mpeg moviesof current profile data from the Monterey Bay, and concept,requirements and design documents for the system. Center for Applied Parallel Processing at the University ofColorado at Boulder.This weblet contains examples of visualizations done at thecenter. Movies, pictures, and research papers are available. Software Support Lab software archive at the Laboratoryfor Atmospheric and Space Physics at the University ofColorado in Boulder.This weblet contains descriptions of and access to a great dealof software, including visualizationpackages such as AVS, IRIS Explorer, Vis-5D, HDF, NCSA Image,NIH Image, Interactive NCAR Graphics, and many others.Many of the descriptions are incomplete and still contain someautomatically generated boilerplate. Hopefully this will change soon. Colorado State University Visualization Laboratory.This weblet is primarily aimed at potential users atColorado State as it describes the facilities and personelvery well. Of general interest area couple of very large movies andHTML tutorials for some public domain software (e.g., xv, ximage, ...). Visualization at the Cornell Theory Center. This URL contains pictures,movies, list of personnel, and much descriptive text, but no research papers.The group makes extensive use of the IBM Data Explorer visualizationsystem and WaveFront's Advanced Visualizer. There is a Data Explorertutorial, an archive of modules, discipline specific networks and macros,and related materials.There are clear signs that more material will come on line inthe future. Dr. Michael Prisant's page at Duke University.This weblet contains images, videos, and html descriptions of a numberof chemistry related visualizations. This work includesusing parallel processing to ray cast computational chemistry results.There is a copywrite notice on this weblet. Graphics, Visualization, and Usability Center at Georgia Tech.This weblet contains project and facility descriptions, pictures, movies,and at least one research paper.Application areas are diverse. The Center for Innovative Computer Applications (CICA) at theIndiana University Bloomington Campus.This extensive weblet contains project descriptions, pictures, AVSrelated software, movies, and technical reports.Application areas are diverse. Scientific Visualization at the University of Manchester (UK).This weblet contains an article on scientific visualization inthe United Kingdom academic community, including one picture.The paper includes a discussion of the AVS repository shadow in the UK. MIT Aero/Astro Scientific VisualizationThis weblet is home to Visual2, Visual3, and pV3. These arevisualization systems for unsteady, unstructured (and structured)CFD visualization (mostly). Visual2 is for 2D flows,Visual3 for 3D flows, and pV3 takes data from solvers ondistributed workstations on the fly. There are papers, software, and usersmanuals. The author assures me that pictures will be coming. Thesoftware is binary and libraries only, not source code. The University of Minnesota The University of Minnesota Supercomputing Institute.This weblet contains pointers to URLs of interest to thescientific visualization community. Scientific Visualization and Graphics page of the University of Minnesota Supercomputing Institute.This weblet is a scivis user oriented page with pointersto software packages, descriptions of techniques and data formats, and soon. Users should be able to go here to learn a lot about how to do scientificvisualization. The weblet is pretty sparse at the moment, but its a nobleeffort which I hope succeeds. The Geometry Center, University of Minnesota. This excellent weblet contains examples of, software for, and technical and other information aboutsome of the premier mathematical visualizations on the planet. A Gallery of Interactive On-Line Geometry The Geometry Center also has an incredible page with links to their interactive, web-based,visualizations of various mathematical objects. Interaction isslow due to the network, but these forms-based programs arewell worth looking at. The SHASTRA Collaborative Modelling and VisualizationEnvironment at Purdue University. This weblet contains descriptions of software and projects, pictures,and many mpeg movies. There are instructions for obtaining thesoftware, but you cannot get the software through the web. The ParVis visualization project. This weblet contains project and software descriptions,technical papers, pictures, and movies. The work focuses onvolume rendering using a message passing, distributed memory,parallel machine. The Rutgers VizLab. This weblet contains pictures, movies, html descriptions of projectsand software, a faculty list, and upcomming events. This labhas done excellent work in feature detection.They plan to add research papers in the future. Stanford Computer Graphics Laboratory. Good projects, pictures, movies, software, technical papers and descriptionsof some of the graphics work at Stanford University. Lab for Scientific Visual Analysis at Virginia Tech.This weblet contains pictures, movies, description of facilitiesand projects, and some student projects, but no research papers.The lab is an NCSA academic affiliate. The lab uses mostly Macintoshcomputers. Government Laboratories CRS4: Centre for Advanced Studies Research and Development in Sardinia (Cagliari, Italy).This extensive weblet contains pictures, movies, projects, staff, research papers, and hypertextual MPEG info. A few papers arein Italian, but most of the weblet is in English. The National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR).This weblet contains a couple of pictures, a movie, andextensive documentation for the NCAR graphics package. European Community Joint Research Centre in Italy. This weblet has personel and project descriptions along witha few images. There are also several mpeg movies, includingthe global weather over Africa for July 92 (my favorite).The work is by the visualization groupat the Institute for Informatics and System Engineering. Centre for Scientific Computing (CSC), Espoo, FinlandThis weblet contains a number of movies and images of molecular,molecular biological, and viral processes alongwith at least one research paper. The usual facilities and staffdescriptions are there too. Clickhere to goto CSCs home page. Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory Imaging and DistributedComputing Group.This weblet contains some html research papers, images, and movies.There is a paper on visualization of MRI images. There is alsosome educational material: the "Whole Frog" project and the"Video Microscope" project. Los Alamos National Laboratory Advanced Computing Lab.This weblet contains a description of staff and facilites andand number of pictures with brief explainations. The National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) NCSA Visualization and Virtual Environments page. This extensive weblet contains pictures,movies, descriptive text, and research papers.Visualization work covers a wide variety of application areas. NCSA Digital Information Systems Overview contains many visualizations. NCSA Virtual Reality Lab briefly describes some VR projectsincluding some scientific visualization. There are also someresearch papers. NCSA Electronic Visualization Lab includes a couple ofpapers in html format and some nicely described, comprehensible visualizations. NASA Ames Computer Graphics and Scientific VisualizationGroup. This weblet is designed primarily for NASA Ames internaluse. Of general interest are a number of technical papers, descriptionsof local software, and some very nice scivis images -- although thereare no descriptions to help one understand the science. NASA Langeley Research Center ICASE Visualization and Graphics Highlights. This weblet contains several nice images with descriptions.No movies or technical papers. Mathematical Visualization by David BanksThis weblet contains Dr. Banks' dissertation and pointers to relatedwork. A number of interesting mathematical visualizations of4-dimensional spaces can be found here. NASA's Numerical Aerodynamic Simulation Division (NAS) NAS Applied ResearchBranch Visualization Group. This weblet contains pictures,all of the group's research papers, movies, and this annotated URL bibliography.Most of the work focuses on visualization of computationalfluid dynamics results. NAS Division Technical Summaries.This weblet is contains short descriptions, including pictures, ofa few examples of computational research conducted at the NAS.The focus is on the computation rather than the visualization. Flow Analysis Software Toolkit (FAST)This weblet contains extensive information on FAST, an enduser visualization system particularly suited to CFDdeveloped by the NAS. The NSF/ARPA Science and Technology Center for Computer Graphicsor Computer Graphicsand Scientific Visualization.A one page description of the center and a couple ofinlined computer graphics images. Hopefully this sitewill expand some day. Commercial AVS. This weblet has excellent information and links toinformation about AVS, even thoughit is maintained by the University of Colorado at Bolder Software Support Laboratory. 3DVIEWNIX Home Page. This weblet is home to a medically oriented visualization softwareproduct sold by the Medical Image Processing Group of theUniversity of Pennsylvania. The weblet includes movies, descriptionof the software, downloadable demos (the link was broken whenI checked it!), library reference manual, list of personnel, ordering information, etc. The Lateiner Dataspace weblet contains papers in HTML formatand other documents which relate to research performed atLateiner Dataspace on subjects such as stereoscopic volumevisualization and the visualization of discrete physicalsimulation models. It includes many pictures, as well as alink to their FTP site, where one can find demonstrationsoftware. IRIS Explorer Center.This weblet contains information about the IRISExplorer scientific visualization system originally developedby SGI and now supported by NAG (the NumericalAlgorithms Group - a non-profit). IRIS Explorer uses the data flowprogramming model for scientific visualization.There is documentation,maps (data flow programs), modules (nodes in data flow programs), reviews, ftp site access, newsgroup access, an FAQ, etc. MATLAB Gallery.This weblet contains visualizations created using MATLAB -- ascientific and engineering software tools specializing inmatrix manipulations. There are a number of nice images, somewith decent explainations. PixelMotion HYPERCOMP Division. These folks do parallel workstation computing and visualization ofthe results, apparently using AVS. They're in the services business.The weblet contains one thunderstorm visualization (as of 9/94). Military The Army High Performance Computing Research Center. This weblet contains pictures, movies, descriptions of software, projects,and staff, but no research papers. Many of the visualizationscome with enough information to gain at least a superficial understanding.A wide variety of application areas are represented. Army Research Laboratory Scientific Visualization Team. This weblet contains pictures, movies, descriptions of the facility, projects,and staff, but no research papers. Most of the visualizations areweapons related. Visualization Using GRASS GIS (U.S. Army Construction Engineering Research Laboratories). This weblet contains pictures, animations,brief explanations, links to an online manual for GRASS (GeographicResources Analysis Support System), but no research papers.You can also get a demo of one module of GRASS. Current visualization examples include surface modeling, erosion modeling, rainfall runoff, keyframe animation, and global images.The visualizations are accompanied by enough information to understand them,at least at a superficial level. Naval Research Laboratory Visualization Lab.This weblet contain images, movies, and description of facilities and staff.There are no research papers. Realization Reports by Larry Rosenblum from the Office of Naval ResearchEuropean Office. This is newsletter devoted to European and Middle Eastern activities in data visualization, virtual reality, and related technologies.Definition: weblet - a small, highly connected portion ofthe World Wide Web maintained by a single organization orindividual.Comment and suggestions: Al Globus, globus@nas.nasa.gov |
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