The Visualization of Astrophysical Data:

Bringing together Science, Art and Education

This site will serve as a staging area for workshop material, until the official workshop page is up on the KICP website.

Presentations and Video Clips

	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

Annotated Resources

• Astro-viz group: Frank Summers moderates this Yahoo Group
• Skyserver: The SDSS database site was presented by both Alex Szalay and Jordan Raddick.
• Partiview: Stuart Levy's partiview software came up repeatedly at the workshop.
• 3D Slicer: Alyssa Goodman showed how this brain imaging software can be used for Astronomy visualization.
• Digital Universe: Brian Abbott demonstrated this AMNH software
• Ndaona: Dinoj Surendran's Matlab and Partiview based automated visualization scheme.
• Gravitas: John Dubinski's artistic offerings with composer John Farrah
• Mirage: Tin Kam Ho's data manipulation and pattern recognition software.
• StarSplatter: Visualization software mentioned by both Chris Mihos and John Dubinski
• GeoWall: This passive stereoscopic display system was demonstrated both at the KICP and Adler.
• 3D Science Live Show: Toshikazu Ebisuzaki, Kaoru Kimura and Toshiyuki Takahei are all involved in this production at the Tokyo Science Museum
• Cosmus: Mostly GeoWall & PSP based cosmology content from Randy Landsberg, Dinoj Surendran and Mark SubbaRao.

The Value of Visualization

Anecdotes

• Chris Mihos described how the visualization he was doing for the Cosmic Voyage IMAX film helped him understand observations of offset stars and gas in Arp 299.

Educational Research

• Jordan Raddick and Adrienne Gauthier will be doing an extensive literature review in and around education issues dealing with, or peripherally with, "data visualization" and "real data in educational applications". We'll be perusing all sorts of educational and scientific communities trying to find qualitative, quantitative, and even anecdotal evidence that data viz works well in an educational setting. We'll probably publish in AER, if not informally through other means like AAS.

Outcomes and Recomendations

Recomendations

• Andy Hanson argues for a particular universal resource concept
• Alex Szalay suggests a funding model that would reward "cowboy" Viz projects.

• See "The Value of Visualization" above for compilations of anecdotes and reasearch which demonstraits that visualization is a worthwile endeavor.
• Daniela Rosner's presentation at the INSAP conference will showcase work by Matt Turk, Mark Whittle and John Dubinski as well as that of Dinoj Surendran, Randy Landsberg and Mark SubbaRao.
• Frank Summers, Alex Griswold, and Alyssa Goodman are planning to leverage IIC resources and Harvard student-power to set up a site to not only showcase Astronomical visualizations, but also to archive and/or provide access to code and its authors/suppliers. More on that soon.

Photos

• From Randy Landsberg
• From Curtis Wong