Tag Archives: visualization

Virtual and Augmented Reality for Space Science and Exploration

Posted on February 16, 2018 by astrocompute

This is the title of a Symposium held at the Keck Institute for Space Studies on January 30 2018 in Pasadena.  According to the website, the goals of the meeting were: “The emerging technologies of Virtual and Augmented Reality (VR/AR) … Continue reading →

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Spherical Panoramas for Astrophysical Data Visualization

Posted on February 10, 2017 by astrocompute

This is the title of a paper by Brian Kent (NRAO), which has been accepted for publication in the PASP Special Focus Issue: Techniques and Methods for Astrophysical Data Visualization. You can download the paper from arXiv at https://arxiv.org/abs/1701.08807 .(I … Continue reading →

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Version 4.0 of the Montage Image Mosaic Engine Released: Data Cubes and more.

Posted on October 24, 2015 by astrocompute

Version 4.0 is a major upgrade of Montage, released with a BSD 3-clause license. The distribution is available from Git Hub at https://github.com/Caltech-IPAC/Montage and from the Montage web page at http://montage.ipac.caltech.edu/docs/download.html. The release supports aggregation of of data stored as … Continue reading →

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The 2015 Sagan Exoplanet Summer Workshop – Exoplanetary System Demographics: Theory and Observations

Posted on August 25, 2015 by astrocompute

Every Summer, the NASA Exoplanet Science Institute (NExScI) hosts the Sagan Workshop, which sets out to advance scientific and technical understanding of the objectives of the NASA Exoplanet Exploration Program, and is aimed primarily at early career scientists. This year, the topic … Continue reading →

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Interactive Visualization of Billion-Point Data Sets: Nanocubes

Posted on April 23, 2015 by astrocompute

One of the most interesting talks I heard at the “Tools for Astronomical Big Data” Meeting I attended in March was by Carlos Scheidegger (University of Arizona) on “How do you look at a billion data points? Exploratory Visualization for Big Data.”  It was … Continue reading →

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Tools For Astronomical Big Data

Posted on March 12, 2015 by astrocompute

This week, I attended the Tools for Astronomical Big Data Workshop, held in Tucson from March 9 -11 and sponsored by NOAO. Over 100 practitioners gathered to “survey the present state of the art in addressing the challenges of conducting … Continue reading →

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Review of A Hack Day: Coding Comes to the U.K. National Astronomy Meeting (NAM)

Posted on October 30, 2014 by astrocompute

Hack Days have become very popular in the past few years. If you want to know what happens at one and what value they offer, read this excellent post by Robert Simpson on the Hack Day at the U.K. National Astronomy … Continue reading →

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From The Front Lines of ADASS 2014 – Visualization

Posted on October 7, 2014 by astrocompute

Visualization technology is undergoing a transformation these days, and the October 7 morning session was devoted to advances in visualization. Here I will give a synopsis of some of the talks. Chris Beaumont described Glue as a “Hackable User Interface,” … Continue reading →

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The CAVE2 Immersive Visualisation Platform at Monash University

Posted on August 4, 2014 by astrocompute

The availability of massive data sets is driving the development of new large-scale visualization systems. One such is the CAVE2 Immersive Visualisation Platform built at Monash University. Described as a next-generation immersive hybrid 2D and 3D virtual reality environment, this … Continue reading →

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Cosmology, Computers and the VisIVO package.

Posted on March 23, 2014 by astrocompute

We all know how massively parallel programming is assuming ever greater importance in astronomy. This week, I  describe the Visual Interface for the Virtual Observatory (VisIVO) package and describe how it was used to visualize the results of a cosmological … Continue reading →

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