NCSA’s Advanced Visualization Laboratory, has contributed cinematic visualizations to a new space show that debuted at Chicago’s Adler Planetarium (www.adlerplanetarium.org) on Friday, March 6.
“IBEX: Search for the Edge of the Solar System“ narrates the mission of NASA’s Interstellar Boundary Explorer (http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/ibex/), which set out in the Fall of 2008 to map the boundaries of our solar system by studying the interaction of hot solar winds with the cold of deep space. The three scenes created for the show, totaling 4.5 minutes of dome rendering, serve as the opening, finale, and a centerpiece. The introductory scene allows audiences to ride with the sun and its heliosphere as it moves above and below the galactic plane, while the finale gives them a panoramic view of the Milky Way. The centerpiece shows star orbits in motion around our galaxy's distant center; the scene's rendering required original calculations that provide a new scientific visualization of our home galaxy's astrophysics.
Cinematic visualizations produced by AVL are also part of “3-D Universe: A Symphony,” a unique sensory experience that combines high-definition stereo pictures and data-driven animations with the music of Mussorgsky's "Pictures at an Exhibition," as performed by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. “3-D Universe: A Symphony” is being presented at the Adler as part of its 2009 celebration of the International Year of Astronomy; the show opened March 6.
For show times and other information, see: www.adlerplanetarium.org
Monday April 20th
5:30 - 7pm
Krannert Center for the Performing Arts hosted a kickoff reception for the
Illinois Emerging Digital Research and Education in Arts Media Institute (eDream).
Click through for an interview with eDream's director, Donna Cox
Watch the kickoff event at Krannert Center for the Performing Arts
The goal of the Advanced Visualization Laboratory is to communicate science, inspire, and provide outreach to large, non-expert audiences about scientific concepts.
This CyberOutreach is the development and use of cyberinfrastructure to create high-end, high-fidelity, and high-resolution data-driven scientific visualizations. These visualizations are technically developed and aesthetically designed to support scientific narratives and provide insight to computational science.
In the creation of these scientific outreach productions for IMAX movies, full dome digital planetaria, and educational public television programs, the AVL team develops new cyber-technologies and advanced visualization tools and software production pipelines.
Each member of the team plays a unique role and contributes a variety of skills to the process, development and production. These expertise include advanced graphics and visualization techniques, artistic design, cinematic choreography, multimedia and video production, data management and render wrangling.
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