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===[[Zspace Linux Fix | Automatic Stereo Switcher for the ZSpace]] (Matt Kubasak, Thomas Gray, 2013-2014)===
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===[[ZSculpt | ZSculpt - 3D Sculpting with the Leap]] (Thinh Nguyen, 2013)===
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===[[StreamingGraphics | Multi-User Graphics with Interactive Control (MUGIC)]] (Shahrokh Yadegari, Philip Weber, Andy Muehlhausen, 2012-)===
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  <td>Allow users simplified and versatile access to CalVR systems via network rendering commands. Users can create computer graphics in their own environments and easily display the output on any CalVR wall or system. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-q8cl9EUD4&noredirect=1 See the project in action], and [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bS0Borb-f8&noredirect=1 a condensed lecture on the mechanisms.]</td>
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  <td>Researchers at UIC/EVL and UCSD/Calit2 have developed a method to acquire very high resolution, surround and stereo panorama images using dual SLR cameras. This VR application allows viewing these approximately gigabyte sized images in real-time and supports real-time changes of the viewing direction and zooming.</td>
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Revision as of 00:31, 7 December 2020

Contents

Fringe Physics (Robert Maloney, 2014-2015)

PhysicsLab FinalScene.png

Boxing Simulator (Russell Larson, 2014)

Boxer.png

Parallel Raytracing (Rex West, 2014)

NightSky Frame Introduction 01.png

Altered Reality (Jonathan Shamblen, Cody Waite, Zach Lee, Larry Huynh, Liz Cai 2013)

AR.jpg

Focal Stacks (Jurgen Schulze, 2013)

Coral-thumbnail.png SIO will soon have a new microscope which can generate focal stacks faster than before. We are working on algorithms to visualize and analyze these focal stacks.

Android Head Tracking (Ken Dang, 2013)

Android-head-tracking2-250.jpg The Project Goal is to create a Android App that would use face detection algorithms to allows head tracking on mobile devices

Automatic Stereo Switcher for the ZSpace (Matt Kubasak, Thomas Gray, 2013-2014)

ZspaceProduct.jpg We created an Arduino-based solution to fix the problem that in Linux the Zspace's left and right views are initially in random order. The Arduino, along with custom software, is used to sense which eye is displayed when, so that CalVR can switch the eyes if necessary, in order to show a correct stereo image.

ZSculpt - 3D Sculpting with the Leap (Thinh Nguyen, 2013)

Zsculpt-250.jpg The goal of this project is to explore the use of the Leap Motion device for 3D sculpting.

Magic Lens (Tony Chan, Michael Chao, 2013)

MagicLens2.jpg The goal of this project is to research the use of smart phones in a virtual reality environment.

Pose Estimation for a Mobile Device (Kuen-Han Lin, 2013)

Kitchen-250.jpg The goal of this project is to develop an algorithm which runs on a PC to estimate the pose of a mobile Android device, linked via wifi.

Multi-User Graphics with Interactive Control (MUGIC) (Shahrokh Yadegari, Philip Weber, Andy Muehlhausen, 2012-)

TD performance-250.jpg Allow users simplified and versatile access to CalVR systems via network rendering commands. Users can create computer graphics in their own environments and easily display the output on any CalVR wall or system. See the project in action, and a condensed lecture on the mechanisms.

PanoView360 (Andrew Prudhomme, Dan Sandin, 2010-)

Panoview-in-tourcave-250.jpg Researchers at UIC/EVL and UCSD/Calit2 have developed a method to acquire very high resolution, surround and stereo panorama images using dual SLR cameras. This VR application allows viewing these approximately gigabyte sized images in real-time and supports real-time changes of the viewing direction and zooming.

VR Deep Packet Inspector (Marlon West, 2017)

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Explore the network communications in Virtual Reality

MoveInVR (Lachlan Smith, 2016)

Move-and-eye.jpg If you want to use the Sony Move as a 3D controller for the PC look here.

Rendezvous for Glass (Qiwen Gao, 2014)

Google-glass-250.jpg

GoPro Synchronization (Thomas Gray, 2013)

GoProHero2Stereoscopic.jpg The goal of this project is to create a multi-camera video capture system.

AndroidAR (Kristian Hansen, Mads Pedersen, 2012)

AndroidAR.jpg Tracked Android phones are used to view 3D models and to draw in 3D.

ArtifactVis with Android Device (Sahar Aseeri, 2012)

B.jpg In this project, an Android device is used to control the ArtifactVis application and to view images of the artifacts on the mobile device.

Bubble Menu (Cathy Hughes, 2012)

BubbleMenuSmall.jpg The purpose of this project is to create a new 3D user interface designed to be controlled using a Microsoft Kinect. The new menu system is based on wireframe spheres designed to be selected using gestures, and it features animated menu transitions, customizable menus, and sound effects.

Multi-user virtual reality on mobile phones (James Lue, 2012-2013)

Multi users VR android phone2.JPG This project is based on android phones. Users can navigate in a virtual world in the phone and see other users in the virtual world. They can interact with the objects (such as opening doors) in the scene and other users can see the actions The phones are connected by wireless network. Currently it only can support 2 phones to connect to each other

Mobile Old Town Osaka Viewer (Sumin Wang, 2012)

Image-missing.jpg This project aims at creating an Android-based viewer similar to Google Streetview, which allows the user to view a 3D model of old town Osaka, Japan. We collaborate with the Cybermedia Institute of Osaka University on this project.

3D Chromosome Viewer (Yixin Zhu, 2012)

Chromosome7 domain.jpg The purpose of this project is to create a three-dimensional chromosome viewer to facilitate the visualization of intra-chromosomal interactions, genomic features and their relationships, and the discovery of new genes.

CameraFlight (William Seo, 2012)

CameraFlight.png This project's goal is to create automatic camera flights from one place to another in osgEarth.

AppGlobe Infrastructure (Chris McFarland, Philip Weber, 2012)

AppSwitchMini.png This project's goal is to create an application switcher for osgEarth-based CalVR plugins.

GUI Sketching Tool (Cathy Hughes, Andrew Prudhomme, 2012)

SketchThumb.jpg This project's goal is to develop a 3D sketching tool for a VR GUI.

San Diego Wildfires (Philip Weber, Jessica Block, 2011)

Image-missing.jpg The Cedar Fire was a human-caused wildfire which destroyed a large number of buildings and infrastructure in San Diego County in October 2003. This application shows high resolution aerial data of the areas affected by the fires. The data resolution is extremely high at 0.5 meters for the imagery and 2 meters for elevation. Our demonstration shows this data embedded into an osgEarth-based visualization framework, which allows adding such data to any place on our planet and viewing it in a way similar to Google Earth, but with full support for high-end visualization systems.

ArtifactVis (Kyle Knabb, Jurgen Schulze, Connor DeFanti, 2008-2012)

Khirbit.jpg For the past ten years, a joint University of California, San Diego and Department of Antiquities of Jordan research team led by Professor Tom Levy and Dr. Mohammad Najjar has been investigating the role of mining and metallurgy on social evolution from the Neolithic period (ca. 7500 BC) to medieval Islamic times (ca. 12th century AD). Kyle Knabb has been working with the IVL as a master's student under Professor Thomas Levy from the archaeology department. He created a 3D visualization for the StarCAVE which displays several excavation sites in Jordan, along with artifacts found there, and radio carbon dating sites. The data resides in a PostgreSQL data bank with the PostGIS extension, which the VR application uses to pull down the data at run-time.

OpenAL Audio Server (Shreenidhi Chowkwale, Summer 2011)

Image-missing.jpg A Linux-based audio server that uses the OpenAL API to deliver surround sound to virtual visualization environments.

GreenLight BlackBox 2.0 (John Mangan, Alfred Tarng, 2011-2012)

GreenLight.png The SUN Mobile Data Center at UCSD has been equipped with a myriad of sensors within the NSF funded Greenlight project. This virtual reality application attempts to convey the sensor information to the user while retaining spatial information inherent in the data by the arrangement of hardware in the data center. The application links on-line to a data base which collects all sensor information as it becomes available and stores a complete history of it. The VR application can show current energy consumption and temperatures of the hardware in the container, but it can also be used to query arbitrary time windows in the past.

ScreenMultiViewer (John Mangan 2011)

Image-missing.jpg A display mode within CalVR that allows two users to simultaneously use head trackers within either the StarCAVE or Nexcave, with minimal immersion loss.

CaveCAD (Lelin Zhang 2009-2011)

CaveCAD.jpg Calit2 researcher Lelin ZHANG provides architect designers with pure immersive 3D experience in virtual reality environment of StarCAVE.

Neuroscience and Architecture (Daniel Rohrlick, Michael Bajorek, Mabel Zhang, Lelin Zhang 2007-2011)

Neuroscience.jpg This projects started off as a Calit2 seed funded project to do a pilot study with the Swartz Center for Neuroscience in which a human subject has to find their way to specific locations in the Calit2 building while their brain waves are being scanned by a high resolution EEG. Michael's responsibility was the interface between the StarCAVE and the EEG system, to transfer tracker data and other application parameters to allow for the correlation of EEG data with VR parameters. Daniel created the 3D model of the New Media Arts wing of the building using 3ds Max. Mabel refined the Calit2 building geometry. This project has been receiving funding from HMC.

Android Navigator (Brooklyn Schlamp, Summer 2011)

Image-missing.jpg This project implements an Android phone based navigaton tool for the CalVR environment.

Ground Penetrating Radar (Philip Weber, Albert Lin, 2011)

Image-missing.jpg Calit2's Albert Yu-Min Lin has been named to the 2010 class of National Geographic Emerging Explorers. His current research interest is to find the tomb of Genghis Khan in Mongolia, albeit without physically turning a single rock, but only by analyzing a variety of data modalities such as satellite imagery, aerial photography, and sub-surface radar. This demonstration shows three scanning modalities in one visualization application: magnetic, electro-magnetic, and ground penetrating radar. The latter is able to penetrate the ground the deepest, so we chose to focus on it when it comes to visualizing depth data. Spheres with a depth-based color scheme are used to visualize the data. The user can interactively select how deep they want to go under ground, and then fly around to examine the data and put it in perspective with the other two modalities.

3D Reconstruction of Photographs (Matthew Religioso, 2011)

Wiki.jpg Reconstruct static objects from photographs into 3D models using the Bundler Algorithm and the Texturing Algorithm developed by prior students. This project's goal is to optimize the Texturing to maximize photorealism and efficiency, and run the resulting application in the StarCAVE.

Real-Time Geometry Scanning System (Daniel Tenedorio, 2011)

Dtenedor-wiki-icon.png This interactive system constructs a 3D model of the environment as a user moves an infrared geometry camera around a room. We display the intermediate representation of the scene in real-time on virtual reality displays ranging from a single computer monitor to immersive, stereoscopic projection systems like the StarCAVE.

Real-Time Meshing of Dynamic Point Clouds (Robert Pardridge, James Lue, 2011)

Marchingcubes.png This project involves generating a triangle mesh in over a point cloud that grows dynamically. The goal is to implement a meshing algorithm that is fast enough to keep up with the streaming input from a scanning device. We are using a CUDA implementation of the Marching Cubes algorithm to triangulate in real-time a point cloud obtained from the Kinect depth-camera.

LSystems (Sarah Larsen 2011)

LSystems2.png Creates an LSystem and displays it with either line or cylinder connections

Android Controller (Jeanne Wang 2011)

Androidscreenshot.png An Android based controller for a visualization system such as StarCave or a multiscreen grid.

Object-Oriented Interaction with Large High Resolution Displays (Lynn Nguyen 2011)

Lynn selected.jpg Investigate the practicality of using smartphones to interact with large high resolution displays. To accomplish such a task, it is not necessary to find the spatial location of the phone relative to the display, rather we can identify the object a user wants to interact with through image recognition. The interaction with the object itself can be done by using the smart-phone as the medium. The feasibility of this concept is investigated by implementing a prototype.

MatEdit (Khanh Luc, 2011)

Screenshot MaterialEditor small.jpg A graphical user interface for programmers to adjust and preview material properties on an object. Once a programmer determines the proper parameters for the look of his material, he can then generate code to achieve that look

Kinect UI for 3D Pacman (Tony Lu, 2011)

Pacmanscreenshot small.png An experimentation with the Kinect to implement a device free, gesture controlled user interface in the StarCAVE to run a 3D Pacman game.

TelePresence (Seth Rotkin, Mabel Zhang, 2010-2011)

TelePresenceDualView thumb.png A virtual representation of the Cisco TelePresence telecommunications system. The room includes a full 3D reproduction of an actual TelePresence 3000 room, live streaming video footage, pre-recorded stereo videos, a 3D powerpoint projection zone, and a movable floating 3D model.

GreenLight Blackbox (Mabel Zhang, Andrew Prudhomme, Seth Rotkin, Philip Weber, Grant van Horn, Connor Worley, Quan Le, Hesler Rodriguez, 2008-2011)

Sun Blackbox rear view We created a 3D model of the SUN Mobile Data Center which is a core component of the instrument procured by the GreenLight project. We added an on-line connection to the physical container to display the output of the power modules. The project was demonstrated at SIGGRAPH, ISC, and Supercomputing.

Volumetric Blood Flow Rendering (Yuri Bazilevs, Jurgen Schulze, Alison Marsden, Greg Long, Han Kim 2011)

VolumeBloodFlow-small.png An extension of the BloodFlow (2009-2010) Project. We attempt to create more useful visualizations of blood flow in a blood vessel, through volume rendering techniques, and tackle challenges resulting from volumetric rendering of large datasets.

Meshing and Texturing Point Clouds (Robert Pardridge, Vikash Nandkeshwar, James Lue, 2011)

Image-missing.jpg These students are using data from the previous PhotosynthVR project to create 3D geometry and textures.

BloodFlow (Yuri Bazilevs, Jurgen Schulze, Alison Marsden, Ming-Chen Hsu, Kenneth Benner, Sasha Koruga; 2009-2010)

VelocityVectorField-small.png In this project, we are working on visualizing the blood flow in an artery, as simulated by Professor Bazilev at UCSD. Read the Blood Flow Manual for usage instructions.
Videos and pictures of the visualizations in 2D can be found here, and the corresponding iPhone versions of the videos can be downloaded here.

PanoView360 (Andrew Prudhomme, 2008-2010)

Image-missing.jpg In collaboration with Professor Dan Sandin from EVL, Andrew created a COVISE plugin to display photographer Richard Ainsworth's panoramic stereo images in the StarCAVE and the Varrier.

PhotosynthVR (Sasha Koruga, Haili Wang, Phi Nguyen, Velu Ganapathy; 2009)

Sungod-small.png UCSD Sasha Koruga has created a Photosynth-like system with which he can display a number of photographs in the StarCAVE. The images appear and disappear as the user moves around the photographed object. Read the PhotosynthVR Manual for usage instructions.

Multi-Volume Rendering (Han Kim, 2009)

Volume rendering.jpg The goal of multi-volume rendering is to visualize multiple volume data sets. Each volume has three or more channels.

How Much Information (Andrew Prudhomme, 2008-2009)

Hmi.jpg In this project we visualize the data from various collaborating companies which provide us with data stored on harddisks or data transferred over networks. In the first stage, Andrew created an application which can display the directory structures of 70,000 harddisk drives of Microsoft employees, sampled over the course of five years. The visualization uses an interactive hyperbolic 3D graph to visualize the directory trees and to compare different users' trees, and it uses various novel data display methods like wheel graphs to display file sizes, etc. More information about this project can be found at [1].

Hotspot Mitigation (Jordan Rhee, 2008-2009)

Hotspot.png ECE Undergraduate student Jordan Rhee has been working on algorithms for hotspot mitigation in projected virtual reality environments such as the StarCAVE. His COVISE plugin is based on a GLSL shader which performs the mitigation in real-time, minimizing the performance impact on the application.

ATLAS in Parallel (Ruth West, Daniel Tenedorio, Todd Margolis, 2008-2009)

Image-missing.jpg UCSD graduate Daniel Tenedorio is working on parallelizing the simulation algorithm of the Atlas in Silico art piece, supported by an NSF funded SGER grant. Daniel's goal is to be able to support the entire CAMERA data set, consisting of 17 million data points (open reading frames). Daniel is going to use the CUDA architecture of NVidia's graphics cards to achieve a considerable performance increase.

Animated Point Clouds (Daniel Tenedorio, Rachel Chu, Sasha Koruga, 2008)

Rachel.jpg UCSD students Daniel Tenedorio and Rachel Chu collaborated as PRIME students between NCHC in Taiwan and Osaka University. They worked on a 3D teleconferencing project, for which they used data from a 3D video scanner at Osaka University and streamed it across the network between NCHC and Osaka. Their VR application now runs in the StarCAVE at UCSD. Sasha Koruga has been continuing this project in the winter quarter 2009.

6DOF Tracking with Wii Remotes (Sage Browning, Philip Weber, 2008)

Image-missing.jpg Past research at Calit2 has developed an affordable means of creating large high-resolution computer displays, the OptiPortals. Contemporary input devices for tiled display walls, which go beyond the capabilities a desktop mouse can offer, are either very expensive, or less than satisfactory. Some controllers can cost $40,000, which defeats the benefits of the relatively inexpensive OptiPortal. Alternately, currently available inexpensive methods leave much to be desired: the same image output on the tiled display wall is also shown on a standard sized control monitor using a standard mouse as input, leaving the user without a means of direct interface with the OptiPortal. In order to create an improved interface for the OptiPortal, research must be done in the area of 3D location tracking that is accurate to within a few millimeters, yet maintains a reasonable cost of production and an intuitive design. The focus of this project is to use multiple Wii Remotes for six degree of freedom tracking. We are going to integrate this new input device scheme into the COVISE software, so that existing software applications can directly benefit from this research.

Spatialized Sound (Toshiro Yamada, Suketu Kamdar, 2008)

Image-missing.jpg Peter Otto's group created a 3D sound system which we can control from the StarCAVE by positioning a sound source in a 3D environment. In our demonstration, the sound source is represented as a cone and can be placed in the pre-function area on the 1st floor of the virtual Calit2 building.

Video in Virtual Environments (Han Kim, 2008-2010)

Mipmap-video.jpg Computer Science graduate student Han Kim has developed an efficient "mip-map" algorithm that "shrinks" high-resolution video content so that it can be played interactively in VEs. He has also created several optimization solutions for sustaining a stable video playback frame rate when the video is projected onto non-rectangular VE screens.


LOOING/ORION (Philip Weber, 2007-2009)

Orion.jpg Under the direction of Matt Arrott, Philip created an interactive 3D exploration tool for simulated ocean currents in Monterey Bay. The software uses OssimPlanet to display terrain and bathymetry of the area to give context to streamlines and iso-surfaces of the vector field representing the ocean currents.

OssimPlanet (Philip Weber, Jurgen Schulze, 2007)

Ossimplanet.jpg In this project we ported the open source OssimPlanet library to COVISE, so that it can run in our VR environments, including the Varrier tiled display wall and the StarCAVE.

CineGrid (Leo Liu, 2007)

Fountain-code.jpg Computer science graduate student Leo Liu has been working on new algorithms for long distance 4k video streaming, as well as 4k movie data management. He has been working in close collaboration with the iRods group at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) and has helped create iRods servers for CineGrid content in San Diego, Amsterdam, and Keio University in Japan.

Virtual Calit2 Building (Daniel Rohrlick, Mabel Zhang, 2006-2009)

Calit2-building.jpg The goal the Virtual Calit2 Building is to provide an accurate and accessible virtual replica of the Calit2 building that can be used by any researcher or scientist to conduct projects or tests that require the need for a detailed architectural layout.

Interaction with Multi-Spectral Images (Philip Weber, Praveen Subramani, Andrew Prudhomme, 2006-2009)

Adoration.jpg In this project, a versatile high resolution image viewer was created which allows loading multi-gigabyte size image files to display in the StarCAVE and on tiled display walls. Images can consist of multiple layers, like Maurizio Seracini's multi-spectral painting scans. The "Walking into a DaVinci Masterpiece" demonstration in the auditiorium uses this COVISE module. Other images we can display with this technique are the Golden Gate Bridge, an USGS map of La Jolla, NCMIR's mouse cerebellum, the Brain Observatory's monkey brain, and cancer cells from Andy Kummel's lab.

Finite Elements Simulation (Fabian Gerold, 2008-2009)

Fem-vis.jpg In this project, Fabian created a simulation module with attached visualization capability. The simulation calculates the stress on a 3D structure which the user can design directly in the StarCAVE. Then the user can run a pre-recorded earthquake on the structure to see where and how strong the forces are on the various elements of the structure.

Palazzo Vecchio (Philip Weber, 2008)

Vecchio.jpg Philip Weber created the PointModel viewer, which renders LIDAR point data sets like Palazzo Vecchio in the StarCAVE. Philip implemented a hierarchical rendering algorithm which allows rendering two million points in real-time. This application also supports other point data sets like UCSD's shake table at the Englekirk site.

Virtual Architectural Walkthroughs (Edward Kezeli, 2008)

Image-missing.jpg We have 3D models of several buildings on and off UCSD's campus which we can bring up in the StarCAVE to view them life size. We got the Structural Engineering and Visual Arts building from Professor Kuester. The architectural firm HMC made available to use the following CAD models: the Rady School of Management at UCSD, HMC's offices in Los Angeles, and a section of the library at San Francisco State University. In collaboration with HMC, Edward created an art piece showing a gigantic Moebius torus floating over Los Angeles.

NASA (Andrew Prudhomme, 2008)

Image-missing.jpg In collaboration with scientists from NASA, we have created several data sets which can be viewed in the StarCAVE: a 3D model of a site Mars rover Spirit took a picture of, a short time after its right front wheel had jammed. Other demonstrations are a 3D model of the International Space Station, a 3D model of a Mars rover, as well as several 2D and 3D surround image panoramas of sites on Mars.

Digital Lightbox (Philip Weber, 2007-2008)

Digital-lightbox.jpg In collaboration with Professor Jacopo Annese's Brain Observatory, Philip created an application for Jacopo's 5x3 tiled display wall which allows displaying up to 90 different cross sections of monkey brains at once. Selected scans exist at super high resolution of hundreds of millions of pixels and can be magnified across the whole wall.

Research Intelligence Portal (Alex Zavodny, Andrew Prudhomme, 2007-2008)

Image-missing.jpg Alex and Andrew created the Research Intelligence kiosk application under a Calit2 grant. They use a visualization technique which is based on smooth transitions between different states of the displayed 2D and 3D geometry. This demonstration runs on a 2x2 tiled display wall on the 5th floor.

New San Francisco Bay Bridge (Andre Barbosa, 2007-2008)

Baybridge.jpg Structural engineering graduate student Andre Barbosa developed a virtual reality application for the StarCAVE. The software allows the user to view and fly through a 3D model of a large part of the new San Francisco bay bridge. His application uses a layered approach to reduce the number of concurrently displayed polygons in order to achieve real-time frame rates. The original data set was created by CalTrans with Bentley's Microstation CAD software. One of Andre's accomplishments was to convert the original, highly detailed CAD data set to a 3D model that could be rendered at interactive frame rates in the StarCAVE.

Birch Aquarium (Daniel Rohrlick, 2007-2008)

Image-missing.jpg For a project funded by the Birch Aquarium Daniel created a 3D underwater scene with a remote controllable submarine, showing the ocean floor around a hydrothermic vent. This project incorporates sound effects, created in collaboration with Peter Otto's group.

CAMERA Meta-Data Visualization (Sara Richardson, Andrew Prudhomme, 2007-2008)

Camera-metadata.png This project started with Sara's Calit2 Undergraduate Scholarship and was later continued by Andrew. The visualization tool they created can display the meta-data of the CAMERA sample sites, and real-time usage data from the CAMERA project's BLAST server on a world map.

Depth of Field (Karen Lin, 2007)

Karen.jpg Karen Lin wrote her computer science master's thesis under the direction of Professor Matthias Zwicker and Jurgen Schulze. She created a software application which can introduce depth of field into a scene rendered using an image based technique.

HD Camera Array (Alex Zavodny, Andrew Prudhomme, 2007)

Hd-camera-array.jpg In this Rincon funded project, we are able to stream video from the two Ethernet HD cameras and display the warped videos simultaneously on the receiving end. The user can then interactively change the bitrate of the stream, change the focal depth of the virtual camera, and manually align the images. The tiled display wall is accessed through a SAGE module.

Atlas in Silico for Varrier (Ruth West, Iman Mostafavi, Todd Margolis, 2007)

Atlas-in-silico.jpg As genomics digitizes life, the organism and self are initially lost to data, but ultimately a broader meaning is re-attained. ATLAS in silico blends art, science, dynamic media and emerging technologies to reflect upon humanity's long-standing quest for an understanding of the nature, origins, and unity of life. This multimedia art installation was displayed at SIGGRAPH 2007.

Screen (Noah Wardrip-Fruin, 2007)

Screen.jpg Under the guidance of Noah Wardrip-Fruin and Jurgen Schulze, Ava Pierce, David Coughlan, Jeffrey Kuramoto, and Stephen Boyd are adapting the multimedia art installation Screen from the four-wall cave system at Brown University to the StarCAVE. This piece was displayed at SIGGRAPH 2007 and was the first virtual reality application to demoed in the StarCAVE. It was also displayed at the Beall Center at UC Irvine in the fall of 2007. For this purpose, it was ported to a single stereo wall display.

Children's Hospital (Jurgen Schulze, 2007)

Newton.jpg From our collaboration with Dr. Peter Newton from San Diego's Children's Hospital we have a few computer tomography (CT) data sets of childerens' upper bodies, showing irregularities of their spines.

Super Browser (Vinh Huynh, Andrew Prudhomme, 2006)

Image-missing.jpg In this project, a gnuhtml based web browser was developed, which can display various types of HTML tags, as well as very large images on web pages. There is no limit to the spatial extent of the web page, because all content is displayed with vector graphics, rather than on a pixel grid.

Cell Structures (Iman Mostafavi, 2006)

Mitochondria.jpg NCMIR funded graduate student Iman Mostafavi created an interactive visualization tool for the visualization of mitchondria. The user can click on the various components of a mitochondrion and take them apart to understand what it is composited of.

Terashake Volume Visualization (Jurgen Schulze, 2006)

Sage-vox-thumb.jpg As part of the NSF funded Optiputer project, Jurgen visualized part of the 4.5 terabyte TeraShake earthquake data set on a the 100 megapixel LambdaVision display at Calit2. For this project, he integrated his volume visualization tool VOX into EVL's SAGE.

Protein Visualization (Philip Weber, Andrew Prudhomme, Krishna Subramanian, Sendhil Panchadsaram, 2005-2009)

Topsan.jpg A VR application to view protein structures from UCSD Professor Philip Bourne's Protein Data Bank (PDB). The popular molecular biology toolkit PyMol is used to create the 3D models of the PDB files. Our application also supports protein alignment, an aminoacid sequence viewer, integration of TOPSAN annotations, as well as a variety of visualization modes. Among the users of this application are: UC Riverside (Peter Atkinson), UCSD Pharmacy (Zoran Radic), Scripps Research Institute (James Fee/Jon Huntoon).

Earthquake Visualization (Jurgen Schulze, 2005)

Earthquakes-thumb.jpg Along with Debi Kilb from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO) we visualized 3D earthquake locations on a world-wide scale.

Geoscience (Jurgen Schulze, 2005)

Geoscience-thumb.jpg In collaboration with SIO's research scientist Graham Kent, we created the 3D reconstruction of an area of the floor of the Pacific Ocean. Sonar scans allow us to see the rock formations under the sea floor. The data we used in this project is typical for oil and gas companies looking for oil reservoirs under ground.
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