Advanced Visualization Lab
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The Advanced Visualization Lab (AVL) is a team at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The AVL specializes in creating cinematic scientific visualizations of large, three-dimensional, time-evolving data. The AVL has contributed to a number of scientific documentaries including the IMAX films "A Beautiful Planet"[1] and "Hubble 3D"[2], a number of fulldome films[3], and television documentaries.
History
The AVL was established in 2006 by Art + Design Professor Donna Cox. Cox coined the term "Renaissance Team"[4] to describe the combination of artists, technologists, and scientists that it takes to create cinematic scientific visualizations. Unlike many visualization teams who use visualization software to create their imagery, the AVL relies primarily on visual effects tools and techniques to achieve a cinematic look[5]. In addition to creating visualizations, the AVL actively participates in teaching visualization at the SIGGRAPH conferences [6][7][8][9][10], on Coursera[11], and at the University of Illinois.
As of 2020, the core AVL team members are Donna Cox (director), Robert Patterson (designer), Stuart Levy (senior programmer), Kalina Borkiewicz (senior programmer), AJ Christensen (designer), and Jeff Carpenter[12]. Past team members include Gretchen Hall and Alex Betts.
Work
In 2015-2019, the AVL created a number of visualizations as part of the National Science Foundation funded grant, CADENS[13]. This grant resulted in three fulldome documentaries - "Solar Superstorms" (2015)[14][15], "Birth of Planet Earth" (2019)[16], and "Atlas of a Changing Earth" (2021)[17] - as well as a number of flat-screen documentaries and making-of documentaries for international television and streaming.
References
- ^ http://www.smilepolitely.com/splog/ncsa_enabled_imax_movie_a_beautiful_planet_premiering_at_savoy_16_may_1st/
- ^ https://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2011-01/advanced-visualization-lab/
- ^ https://www.fddb.org/organizations/advanced-visualization-lab-at-the-national-center-for-supercomputing-applications
- ^ 1988. "Renaissance Teams and Scientific Visualization: A Convergence of Art and Science". In: Collaboration in Computer Graphics Education, SIGGRAPH 88 Educator's Workshop Proceedings, D. Cox, August 1–5, 1988, p. 81 - 104;
- ^ https://www.sidefx.com/community/advanced-visualization-lab-avl-houdini-connect/
- ^ https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3084873.3084935
- ^ https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3134472.3134488
- ^ https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3305366.3328056
- ^ https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3355047.3359398
- ^ https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3388769.3407502
- ^ https://www.coursera.org/learn/data-visualization-science-communication
- ^ https://www.hpcwire.com/off-the-wire/ncsas-donna-j-cox-honored-with-rare-ips-technology-innovation-award/
- ^ https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1445176
- ^ https://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=135550
- ^ Rubin, J. (2015, March). Visualizing the Data. Planetarian, 44(1), 12-16. Retrieved September 10, 2020, from https://cdn.ymaws.com/www.ips-planetarium.org/resource/resmgr/planetarian/201503planetarian.pdf
- ^ https://www.hpcwire.com/off-the-wire/ncsa-visualization-team-co-produces-birth-of-planet-earth/
- ^ https://www.spitzcreativemedia.com/atlas-of-a-changing-earth-now-in-production/#:~:text=Using%20stunning%2C%20latest%2Dgeneration%20imagery,threaten%20coastlines%20the%20world%20over.