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High Resolution Displays
iCluster
One of the more recent and prominent features
that the Visualization Center has to offer is the iCluster,
a twelve unit array of 30" Apple Cinema HD displays, powered
by 6 G5 Mac towers and used for purposes of exhibiting up-to-date
seismic data. From the beginning of my internship, I have helped deal with the setup and maintenance
of the iCluster: the hook-up between the monitors and the computer
cluster, troubleshooting, managing the content that appears, and setting up
and transporting the portable apparatus.
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The
iCluster display mounted on a wall in the Revelle Labs at UCSD.
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MiniME
The Mobile INteractive Imaging Macintosh Environment, or MiniME, is the newest tile wall composed of a 3x5 arrangement of
24" Dell Ultra Sharp LCD monitors, each powered by an Apple Mac Mini. Installed directly
into its carrying case and raised by an air-shock system, the MiniME is designed to be more conveniently portable while maintaining the
imaging power of the iCluster.
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The MiniME at the 2007 AAAS Conference.
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Visualizations
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The
Category 5 hurricane,
Katrina, off the Gulf Coast.
When Hurricane Katrina struck the Gulf Coast this last September, a great
deal of media attention diverted in particular to the devastated shores of
Louisiana. The VizCenter, here at the Scripps Institute of Oceanography,
was besieged with requests for composited satellite imagery of both before
and after views of the New Orleans region, as well as, any other helpful
visualization.
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The Huntington
Beach scene containing imagery, bathymetry, and sensors.
With the California and World Ocean Conference on the horizon
affiliates of SCCOOS want to present
various visualizations of the deployment plans for sensors and instruments. In addition to the very high resolution aerial photography
masking bathymetry of the Huntington Beach scene file found here, models were imported and positioned
in accordance with their actual deployment pattern.
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While
the three-dimensional visualized models generated here at IGPP are striking
in their own right, it is possible to explore the models to utilize the technology
to its fullest functionality. On several occasions, I have used an exploration
device that allows for a more fluid transition between views. My abilities
with the so-dubbed BAT have been used to accommodate a touring group
from NASA as well as a pitch for use of visualization tools and applications
for the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP).
Some of the movies and data files I have flown through have been shown for Bluesky
Productions, at a SCEC meeting, AGU talks, and several other events.
Click on the images below to see some examples of movies that I've worked on.
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A
helicopter view of Sumatra and Japan following the December 26th tsunami
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Extras
Posters and Publications
--Nayak, Atul, G. Dawe, D. Samilo, C. Keen, J.B. Matthews, A. Patel, T. Im, J. Orcutt, T. Defanti. "Design of a High Resolution Scalable Cluster Based Portable Tiled Display for Earth Sciences Visualization."
Eos Transactions AGU, Fall Meeting Supplement 87 (52) Abstract IN31A-1309.
--Samilo, Dane, A. Nayak, D. Kilb, T. Im, F.L. Vernon, L. Astiz, J. Eakins, M. Moschetti, M.H. Ritzwoller (2006). "Scientific Visualizations of Multidimensional Data from Various Sensors." Eos Transactions
AGU, Fall Meeting Supplement 87 (52) Abstract IN31A-1321.
--Taesombut, Nut, X. Wu, A. Chien, A. Nayak, B. Smith, D. Kilb, T. Im, D. Samilo, G. Kent, J. Orcutt (2006). "Collaborative Data Visualization for Earth Sciences with the OptIPuter." Future Generation
Computer Systems, Volume 22, Issue 8, 955-96.
Awards
An award I received upon my departure from IGPP.
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Earthquake Picking from Waveforms
Because the Viz Center collaborates with such a wide variety of research projects and institutions, opportunities have presented themselves
wherein I worked directly with the data at hand aside from visualizing it. I had originally started working with the Array Network Facility
to backup data tapes for them, and when they needed an extra hand in picking earthquakes from waveforms, I learned about their system of earthquake
detection and how to manually pick earthquake arrivals based on waveform data fed from the various real-time data sensors.
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Amery Ice Shelf
Dr. Helen Amanda Fricker needed some help processing satellite imagery that had been taken of a particular area of interest called the Amery
Ice Shelf, the focus of Dr. Fricker's research. As part of a natural cycle, the ice shelf has been breaking off from the continental Antarctica
as the result of ice flow from the higher elevations and water cycling underneath the shelf, which will ultimately lead to what is referred to as
iceberg calving. I aided in filtering out the images in which cloud cover obscured the cracks which show the progression of the calving process.
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Contact: dsamilo -@- ucsd.edu
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