I hope to eventually make this a site explaining scientific visualization and the concepts behind it. For now, I'll keep it to a brief introduction and some screenshots of software I wrote.

Scientific visualization is a broad term describing methods of analyzing and displaying scientific data. This data can be 1D, 2D, 3D or even time elapsed. The methods of viewing depend entirely upon the data given and the requirements of analysis.

Most of the work I've done is three-dimensional, and this appears to be becoming more popular as hardware improves. Some of the most common methods for viewing 3D volumes are slice planes, isosurfacing, and volume rendering. For vector based data sets, streamlines is the most prevalent method, but this area is being rapidly researched for better more comprehensive methods.

software screenshots

simple data slicer isosurfaces simple volume renderer streaming particles scattered data slicer

datasets

flame toe foot

links

computer graphics geometric modeling