The annual SciDAC Visualization Night was last month and another 10 great HPC Scientific Visualizations brought home awards. Wired magazine has the list of winners, complete with their videos.
“The human eye can pick out patterns in simulations that are are otherwise hard to describe, and they can do it better than any computer,” said visualization scientist Joseph Insley of Argonne National Laboratory. “Plus, with the incredible amount of data gathered these days, it’s difficult to analyze it any other way.”
Making a useful scientific simulation isn’t light work. If field researchers want to do it themselves, they must learn to code instructions for computer processing and control advanced 3-D animation software. Because of these hurdles, and the increasing sophistication of modeling methods, most team up with computer and visualization scientists to get the job done.
Disclosure: Me & My Team are included among the winners, the Overhead Threat Protection System video included below.
via 10 Award-Winning Scientific Simulation Videos | Wired Science | Wired.com.
