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The visualization of real astrophysical data sets is a powerful tool for communicating science to the public and for teaching. The confluence of high quality data sets such as SDSS & WMAP, advances in computational techniques, and the continued march of Moore's law has enabled the use of stunningly beautiful and scientifically accurate images, animations, and interactives in a variety of settings (e.g. TV programs, museums, websites, digital planetaria, magazines, & undergraduate classrooms). Two dimensional, three dimensional, and hyper-dimensional (e.g. color coded 3D data) representations convey large amounts of information in a visceral fashion that can inform both experts and the public. As the data and techniques have progressed the boundaries between art and science have begun to blur and move towards research. This workshop will bring together astrophysicists, visualizers, and educators to discuss the current status and to debate the future direction of astronomical visualization as a tool for research, education, and public outreach.
Organizers: Randy Landsberg, Josh Frieman, Andrew Hamilton (CU Boulder), Andrey Kravtsov, Mark SubbaRao, & Alex Szalay (JHU). |
| Presenter | Topic | Presentation+Resources | |
 | Randy Landsberg | Welcome and Intro | Talk(PDF) |
 | Adrienne Gauthier | Instructional Design Strategies for Instructional Technologies Utilizing Data Visualization | Poster(PDF) |
 | Curtis Wong | Interactive narrative content and context for visualization | Talk(PPT) - Interactive from Da Vinci CDROM (Windows only) Codescope.zip |
 | Frank Summers | Accuracy & Aesthetics: Scientific Visualizations Using Hollywood Tools | Talk(PPT),movie 47MB(avi) |
| Stuart Levy | Telling Lies to Visualize | Talk(PDF), movie1(mpeg), movie2(quicktime) | |
 | Ryan Wyatt | Immersive Visualization | wyatt_ucViz2005.tar(194 MB!!!) |
 | Ka Chun Yu | Ka Chun Yu, Denver Museum of Nature & Science A Real-Time Milky Way Galaxy Simulation | Talk |
| Kaoru Kimura | 3D Science Live Show | Talk(PPT) | |
| Toshiyuki Takahei | Embedding | Talk(PPT)Printable(PPT) | |
 | Andrew Johnson | Collaborative visualization using high-resolution tile displays | Talk(PPT) |
| Mark Whittle | Big Bang Acoustics: The Sound of Creation | Talk(PPT) | |
| Dinoj Surendran | Automating Visualization | Talk(PPT) | |
 | Randy Landsberg, Dinoj Surendran, Mark SubbaRao | Cosmus GeoWall demos | Mapping the Universe video short shown on the PSP(90MB) |
| Alexandra Barnett | Outcomes from a NASA Explorer Institute session on digital domes and data. | Poster(PPT) | |
 | Alex Griswold | Expanding the Universe in the Classroom'': Visualizing Key Cosmological Principles Using 3-D Animation | Poster(PPT) |
 | Alexander Szalay | Visual exploration of large astronomical databases | |
 | Jordan Raddick | Using Data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey in the Classroom | Talk(PPT) |
| Tin Kam Ho | Mirage -- Interactive Pattern Discovery with Large Imaging Databases | Talk(PPT) also a flyer for Mirage. | |
 | Andrew Hamilton | Black Hole Flight Simulator | Curtis Wong took some movies of the presentation on his digital camera movie1, movie2, movie3 . |
 | John Dubinski | Gravitas: Animations of Galaxy Dynamics | |
 | Alyssa Goodman | An "Institute for Innovative Computing" at Harvard | Talk(PPT),Movie1(mpeg) |
| Andrew Hanson | Solar Journey | Black Hole zoom in movie(mov) | |
| Doug Roberts | Stereo Image Database Demo | ||
| Brian Abbott | Digital Universe Demo | ||
 | Carter Emmart | Uniview Demo | |
| Edward Bachta | A Case Study in the Visualization of Supernova Simulation Data | Talk(PPT) | |
| Chris Mihos | Visualizing Galaxy Collisions | Talk |
