We are looking for partnerships with academic research and teaching groups to help you to use our visualization facilities, including development of software. We have been successful in acquiring grant funding for specific software development. Below are some examples of projects where staff of the Vislab have integrated visualization into teaching and research.
  • Pixzilla - Reacting to the current needs of NU researchers and educators and anticipating future needs, Academic Technologies has built Pixzilla, an interactive ultra-high resolution collaborative display environment. This system is both an image repository that is accessible from any web browser and a large interactive tiled display system capable of displaying 23 millions pixels.
  • Mars Stereo Imaging - We have worked with the Adler Planetarium & Astronomy Museum to create color stereo images from the Mars Exploration Rover mission. These stereo images are used in undergraduate education and public outreach.
  • HST Astronomy Imaging Workbench - We have developed a workbench in Java to allow astronomy analysis and visualization for electronic homework assignments. These electronic homework assignments will be deployed in several undergraduate astronomy classes. They will be used both by individuals working on their home PC's as well as in our visualization lab for group visualization and analysis.
  • Astro3d - Stereoscopic 3D viewer.
  • Ghemical - Added stereoscopic display to molecular modeling package.
  • Planetary Geology - created interactive 3D interface to a large image database from the Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous (NEAR) mission.
  • Stellar Collision Simulation - helped to create ordinary and stereoscopic animations from 3D simulations of stellar collisions.
  • NUMIS - ported visualization front end from older Apollo computer systems to cross-platform OpenGL systems.