Many of the projects carried out by members of the Boston University research community involve computer graphics, ranging from simple plots to complex animations. The projects described here involve a significant graphics component, used for exploration and understanding of the work in progress, as well as for presentation.
Many of the projects described here included the production of a video segment by members of the Research Computing Services group. Many included extensive consulting, production, and/or custom programming by RCS staff members, as well.
To see a description and selected images from any of the visualizations, click on the piece below. For some projects, you can view short video sequences by clicking on the image for the particular sequence you wish to see. Static images can also be seen at their full-size by clicking on the individual image.
Projects are listed in the order they were added to the Gallery, with the more recent projects shown towards the top of the page. The date given for each project is the year the piece was added to the Visualization Gallery.
Some more recent projects, including ones that had no visualization component, are also listed in our Research Computing Highlights section.
Triggering of El Niño Onset by Northern Hemisphere Sea-level Pressure Variations (2011)
Bruce T. Anderson, Renellys Perez, and Katia Oleinik
Kinetic Farley-Buneman Turbulence (2010)
M. Oppenheim, L. Dyrud, A. vom Endt, R. Putnam, R. Gasser, and E. Brisson
3-D Reconstruction of Melt Geometry from 2-D Electron-microscope Images (2009)
Gordana Garapic, Ulrich Faul, and Erik Brisson
Edgetone Simulation (2009)
Douglas L. Sondak
Simulation of Lattice Quantum-Chromodynamics and Other Lattice Models (2009)
Claudio Rebbi, Adam Avakian, Ron Babich, Richard Brower, Mike Clark, James Osborn, and David Schaich
PetRBF – A Parallel O(N) Algorithm for Radial Basis Function Interpolation (2009)
Rio Yokota, Lorena A. Barba, and Matthew Knepley
Tomographic Reconstruction of Forest Structure from a Ground-Based Lidar Instrument (2008)
Xiaoyuan Yang, Alan Strahler, and Erik Brisson
Fan Acoustics (2007)
Sheryl M. Grace, Douglas L. Sondak, Daniel J. Dorney, Michaela Logue, and Michael J. Cannamela
Experimental Validation of the Influence of White Matter Anisotropy on EEG Forward Solution (2007)
Nitin B. Bangera, Donald L. Schomer, Steve Papavasiliou, Don Hagler, Nima Dehghani, Istvan Ulbert, Eric Halgren, and Anders M. Dale
Structural Hole Theory: The Relationship between Corporate Ties and Corporate Innovation (2007)
Erik Noyes
Optimal Space-Time Finite Difference Scheme for Binaural Room Impulse Response Calculation (2006)
Yusuke Naka, Assad A. Oberai, and Barbara G. Shinn-Cunningham
Baryon Structure in QCD (2006)
R. Babich, J. Howard, C. Rebbi, F. Berruto, C. Hoelbling, N. Garron, L. Lellouch, and N. Shoresh
The Center for Integrated Space Weather Modeling (2005)
Jeffrey Hughes, Director
EarLab: A Virtual Laboratory for Auditory Experimentation (2005)
David Mountain, David Anderson, Glenn Bresnahan, Andrew Brughera, Socrates Deligeorges, Allyn Hubbard, David Lancia, and Viktor Vajda
Vortex Shedding Simulation (2005)
Douglas L. Sondak and Erik Brisson
Lattice QCD (2004)
R. Babich, J. Howard, C. Rebbi, C. Hoelbling, N. Garron, L. Lellouch, S. Necco, F. Berruto, and N. Shoresh
Interactive Streakline Rendering in a Rocket Engine Turbopump Inducer on a Tiled Display Wall (2004)
Douglas L. Sondak, Erik Brisson, and Daniel J. Dorney
General Equation Set Method for Compressible and Incompressible Turbomachinery Flows (2004)
Douglas L. Sondak and Daniel J. Dorney
Lattice QCD (2004)
R. Babich, J. Howard, C. Rebbi, N. Shoresh, C. Hoelbling, N. Garron, L. Lellouch, S. Necco, and F. Berruto
EarLab: A Virtual Laboratory for Auditory Experimentation 2003 (2004)
David Mountain, David Anderson, Glenn Bresnahan, Socrates Deligeorges, Andrew Howitt, Lan Hu, Lee Lichtenstein, Diana Ma and Viktor Vajda
Lintao Bu and John E. Straub
A Patient-Specific Computational Analysis of Electrical Defibrillation (2003)
Daniel Mocanu, Joachim Kettenbach, Michael O. Sweeney, Bruce H. KenKnight, Ron Kikinis and Solomon R. Eisenberg
Quantum Dynamics of Excess Electrons in Metal – Molten Salts Solutions (2003)
Daniel Montemayor, Tomas Castonguay, David Coker, Serena Causo and Giovanni Ciccotti
Interactive Streakline Rendering in a Distributed Computing Environment (2002)
Douglas L. Sondak, Erik Brisson and Daniel J. Dorney
Center for Integrated Space Weather Modeling (2002)
W. Jeffrey Hughes, Director
Excited State Dynamics of Molecules in Liquids and Solids (2002)
Ning Yu, David Coker and Claudio Margulis
Patient Specific Modeling of Internal Defibrillation (2000)
Daniel Mocanu, Joachim Kettenbach, Michael O. Sweeney and Solomon R. Eisenberg
Simulation of Coupled Unsteady Fluid Dynamics and Conduction Heat Transfer in a Turbine Stage (2000)
Douglas L. Sondak and Daniel J. Dorney
Simulations and Analysis of Meteor Trail Plasma Dynamics in the Ionosphere (2000)
L. P. Dyrud, M. M. Oppenheim, G. Vetoulis and A. F. vom Endt
Electron Phase-Space Tornados: Observations in Space, Simulations, and Animations (2000)
M. Oppenheim, D. L. Newman and M. V. Goldman
Photodissociation Dynamics of I2¯ in CO2 Clusters (1998)
Claudio J. Margulis and David F. Coker
Applications of statistical mechanics in the study of Alzheimer’s disease (1998)
Luis Cruz
Baryon Number Violation (1997)
Claudio Rebbi
Instantons and Monopoles are Locally Correlated with the Chiral Condensate (1997)
S. Thurner, M.C. Feurstein and H. Markum
P.W. Gross, P.R. Kotiuga, E. Brisson and G.J. Bresnahan
Stretched Liquid Water: Finite Size Effects (1997)
Francis Starr and H. Eugene Stanley
Photofragmentation of I2¯·Ar17Clusters (1997)
Victor S. Batista and Prof. David F. Coker
Modeling Molecular Photodissociation and Recombination in Liquids and Solids (1996)
David F. Coker and Victor Batista
Particle-in-Cell Simulation of Two-Dimensional Drift Turbulence in a Pure Electron Plasma Column (1996)
Bruce M. Boghosian
Nucleation of a Modulated Phase in Ordering Alloys:Labyrinths or Columns? (1996)
Professors Nicholas Angelo Gross, Ken Elder and Bulbul Chakraborty
Crystalline Computation (1996)
Norman Margolus and Raissa D’Souza
Relativistic Hydrodynamic and Emission Simulations of Jets (1996)
Jose L. Gomez and Alan P. Marscher
Gravitation Migration of a 3-D Droplet Along an Inclined Plane (1996)
Mark Ford and Ali Nadim
Simulations of 3D Non-Periodic Structures of Pi-VBL and 2Pi-VBL in Magnetic Garnet (1996)
Makhlouf Redjdal and Floyd Humphrey
Quantum Molecular Dynamics Studies of H2 Transport in Water (1996)
H.S. Doris Mei and David F. Coker
Non-linear Field Evolution in Nucleon Production Processes (1996)
Claudio Rebbi and Robert Singleton
Acoustic Field Visualization of Thin Airfoil in Nonuniform Subsonic Flow (1996)
Dr. Sheryl Grace and Brad Mahoney
Vorticity and Temperature in the Measurement Plane (1996)
Dr. Donald Wroblewski and William Arminger
Molecular Dynamics Simulation of Ion Propagation through a Protein Ion Channel (1996)
Ljubomir T. Citkusev, Richard Brower and Charles DeLisi
TERRIERS Satellite Project (1996)
Daniel Cotton
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