FusionGrid.org: Workers Section - 3D Visualization Requirements

Workers: Proposal

9. Advanced 3D Visualization: The following are a list of user requirements.

Low cost solution
- Willing to trade some people-costs for commercial software costs
- Hardware requirements should be modest (e.g. Linux Vis station ~$2K)
- Efficient U.S. fusion community wide licensing scheme for commercial hardware would be acceptable
Simulation Community is Target Audience
- Experimental sciences does not have this requirement at this time.
- Focus on user groups such as NIMROD, M3D, GS2, GRYO, etc.
Easy and Robust to use
- This is the most important piece.
- Reliable so that it can be used for every day science
- Easy to use so one does not need to be a visualization specialist
2D Graphics Important
- Even in a 3D world 2D quantitative graphics are important
- This is the way simulation and experiment will be compared
- See this link for details (orginally posted 10/01). Although generated by the NIRMOD project these requirements should cover most simulation groups.
3D Graphics
- See this link
- This is specific to NIMROD, needs to be expanded. More info on NIMROD needs is posted here and examples of their 3D graphics is here
- Speed is an issue here with very large datasets. Question involves moving data or pixels (remote vis).
Animation
- The ability to easily and rapidly create movies from simulation runs is critical for both understanding and presentation to larger audiences.
Collaborative Visualization
- Distributed groups will want to share the same complex 3D visualization for interactive discussion.
- Ability to share a piece of your display real estate. This gets into the concept of a private and public space on the scientists desktop.
- Needs to be fast
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