The National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) is a state-federal partnership to develop and deploy national-scale computer infrastructure that advances research,science and engineering based in the United States. NCSA operates as a unit of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign,and provides high-performance computing resources to researchers across the country. Support for NCSA comes from the National Science Foundation,the state of Illinois,the University of Illinois,business and industry partners,and other federal agencies.
Scientific visualization is an interdisciplinary branch of science concerned with the visualization of scientific phenomena. It is also considered a subset of computer graphics,a branch of computer science. The purpose of scientific visualization is to graphically illustrate scientific data to enable scientists to understand,illustrate,and glean insight from their data. Research into how people read and misread various types of visualizations is helping to determine what types and features of visualizations are most understandable and effective in conveying information.
Visualization or visualisation is any technique for creating images,diagrams,or animations to communicate a message. Visualization through visual imagery has been an effective way to communicate both abstract and concrete ideas since the dawn of humanity. from history include cave paintings,Egyptian hieroglyphs,Greek geometry,and Leonardo da Vinci's revolutionary methods of technical drawing for engineering and scientific purposes.
A cave automatic virtual environment is an immersive virtual reality environment where projectors are directed to between three and six of the walls of a room-sized cube. The name is also a reference to the allegory of the Cave in Plato's Republic in which a philosopher contemplates perception,reality,and illusion.
Donna J. Cox is an American artist and scientist,Michael Aiken Endowed Chair;Professor of Art + Design;Director,Advanced Visualization Lab at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC);Director,Visualization and Experimental Technologies at National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA);and Director,edream. She is a recognized pioneer in computer art and scientific visualization,specifically cinematic scientific visualization.
Theresa-Marie Rhyne is an expert in the field of computer-generated visualization and a consultant who specializes in applying artistic color theories to visualization and digital media. She has consulted with the Stanford University Visualization Group on a color suggestion prototype system (2013),the Center for Visualization at the University of California at Davis (2013),the Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute at the University of Utah &(2014) on applying color theory to ensemble data visualization and the Advanced Research Computing Unit at Virginia Tech (2019).
Daniel J. Sandin is an American video and computer graphics artist,designer and researcher. He is a Professor Emeritus of the School of Art &Design at University of Illinois at Chicago,and co-director of the Electronic Visualization Laboratory (EVL) at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He is an internationally recognized pioneer in computer graphics,electronic art and visualization.
Thomas Albert "Tom" DeFanti is an American computer graphics researcher and pioneer. His work has ranged from early computer animation,to scientific visualization,virtual reality,and grid computing. He is a distinguished professor of Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Chicago,and a research scientist at the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2).
The Electronic Visualization Laboratory (EVL) is an interdisciplinary research lab and graduate studies program at the University of Illinois at Chicago,bringing together faculty,students and staff primarily from the Art and Computer Science departments of UIC. The primary areas of research are in computer graphics,visualization,virtual and augmented reality,advanced networking,and media art. Graduates of EVL either earn a Masters or Doctoral degree in Computer Science.
Patrick M. Hanrahan is an American computer graphics researcher,the Canon USA Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering in the Computer Graphics Laboratory at Stanford University. His research focuses on rendering algorithms,graphics processing units,as well as scientific illustration and visualization. He has received numerous awards,including the 2019 Turing Award.
Edward Seidel is an American academic administrator and scientist serving as the president of the University of Wyoming since July 1,2020. He previously served as the Vice President for Economic Development and Innovation for the University of Illinois System,as well as a Founder Professor in the Department of Physics and a professor in the Department of Astronomy at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He was the director of the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at Illinois from 2014 to 2017.
Lawrence Jay Rosenblum is an American mathematician,and Program Director for Graphics and Visualization at the National Science Foundation.
Bruce Howard McCormick (1928–2007) was an American computer scientist,Emeritus Professor at the Department of Computer Science,and founding director of the Brain Networks Lab at Texas A&M University.
William Douglas Gropp is the director of the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) and the Thomas M. Siebel Chair in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. He is also the founding Director of the Parallel Computing Institute. Gropp helped to create the Message Passing Interface,also known as MPI,and the Portable,Extensible Toolkit for Scientific Computation,also known as PETSc.
Christopher Ray Johnson is an American computer scientist. He is a distinguished professor of computer science at the University of Utah,and founding director of the Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute (SCI). His research interests are in the areas of scientific computing and scientific visualization.
Maureen C. Stone is an American computer scientist,specializing in color modeling.
Holly Rushmeier is an American computer scientist and is the John C. Malone Professor of Computer Science at Yale University. She is known for her contributions to the field of computer graphics.
Jane Veeder is an American digital artist,filmmaker and educator. She is a professor at San Francisco State University in the Department of Design and Industry,at which she held the position of chair between 2012 and 2015. Veeder is best known for her pioneering work in early computer graphics,however she has also worked extensively with traditional art forms such as painting,ceramics,theatre,and photography.
Hanspeter Pfister is a Swiss computer scientist. He is the An Wang Professor of Computer Science at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and an affiliate faculty member of the Center for Brain Science at Harvard University. His research in visual computing lies at the intersection of scientific visualization,information visualization,computer graphics,and computer vision and spans a wide range of topics,including biomedical image analysis and visualization,image and video analysis,and visual analytics in data science.
The Advanced Visualization Lab (AVL) is a team at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The AVL specializes in creating cinematic scientific visualizations of large,three-dimensional,time-evolving data. The AVL has contributed to a number of scientific documentaries including the IMAX films "A Beautiful Planet". and "Hubble 3D",a number of fulldome films,and television documentaries.
