| Project | SSEC Visualization Project |
| Contact | Bill Hibbard |
| hibbard@facstaff.wisc.edu | |
| URL | http://www.ssec.wisc.edu/~billh/vis.html |
| Project description | The SSEC Visualization Project makes advanced interactive visualization techniques available to physical scientists and others through its free Vis5D and VisAD software systems. Vis5D is widely used to visualize numerical simulations of the environment. VisAD provides interactive visualization and steering of more general numerical computations. VisAD is being re-written in pure Java in order to support distributed computing and collaborative user interfaces. Information about Vis5D and VisAD is available at: http://www.ssec.wisc.edu/~billh/vis5d.html http://www.ssec.wisc.edu/~billh/visad.html |
| Theoretical background | Our research focuses in interaction: 1. How to acheive the performance needed for interactive visualization. 2. What interactive choices users want and how to present those choices. 3. Exploring new kinds of ineraction (for example, VisAD enables users to interactively explore the design space for visualizations, as well as supporting direct manipulation of data and computational steering). 4. The role of new technology such as high speed networks and immersive virtual reality. A summary of our research is available at: http://www.ssec.wisc.edu/~billh/vis.html |
| Challenges | The Java rewrite of VisAD has ambitious goals, including: 1. Applicability to any numerical data or computation. 2. Enabling collaborative applications with data, computations, displays and user interfaces distributed around the network. 3. Supporting a wide variety of different forms of interaction. 4. Ease of use for application developers. |
| Partnership | We looking for partners with expertise in education who will develop educational applications and Applets based on VisAD or Vis5D. |