2East Newsletter

Published every two weeks, December 5th, 2001

Visualization Lab Open to Faculty

On November 15, the NUIT Visualization Lab (vislab) in 2East was officially opened. Mort Rahimi, Provost Dumas and Bob Taylor presented some brief comments and then the group of deans and invited faculty moved into the vislab itself for a tour and demonstrations of the visualization hardware and software systems. Doug Roberts, Jim Lindsay and Fred Arnold from the Research Technology Group of AT lead the demonstrations of some interesting research software as well as a fun helicopter flight simulator. Mike Cruz was on hand to show off his 3D VRML (Virtual Reality Modeling Language) viewer written in Java3D. Intan Hashim finished off a new website for the vislab that includes resources for people use the rather complex hardware sand software in the lab.

The opening was a great success, thanks to everyone's efforts. The vislab has four desktop stereoscopic systems (two Sun workstations and two Dell PCs); the output of any computer can be routed to a large stereo projection wall for immersive or group projects. The lab is in room 2650 and is open officially 10 am - 5 pm Monday to Friday, although you will probably find someone around later than that. In addition to the innovative graphics hardware systems, we are developing software for a few projects. Periodically, there are openings for student cons who are interested in 3D software development; stop by if you are want to see what we are doing. Also, starting the winter quarter, the vislab will be coordinating a monthly series of seminars revolving around visualization.

For information on the vislab facilities, projects, seminars or anything else we are doing please look up our web site at http://vislab.northwestern.edu.

IN THIS ISSUE: Visualization Lab Open to Faculty The New Technology Series: Upcoming Faculty Presentations New Developments in Digital Media Services Getting to Know 2East: Rochelle S. Elstein Archives The 2East: eNewsletter will be taking a break over the holiday season. Please find us at the beginning of winter quarter with a new site and more indepth articles.		*Published every two weeks, December 5th, 2001* Visualization Lab Open to Faculty On November 15, the NUIT Visualization Lab (vislab) in 2East was officially opened. Mort Rahimi, Provost Dumas and Bob Taylor presented some brief comments and then the group of deans and invited faculty moved into the vislab itself for a tour and demonstrations of the visualization hardware and software systems. Doug Roberts, Jim Lindsay and Fred Arnold from the Research Technology Group of AT lead the demonstrations of some interesting research software as well as a fun helicopter flight simulator. Mike Cruz was on hand to show off his 3D VRML (Virtual Reality Modeling Language) viewer written in Java3D. Intan Hashim finished off a new website for the vislab that includes resources for people use the rather complex hardware sand software in the lab. The opening was a great success, thanks to everyone's efforts. The vislab has four desktop stereoscopic systems (two Sun workstations and two Dell PCs); the output of any computer can be routed to a large stereo projection wall for immersive or group projects. The lab is in room 2650 and is open officially 10 am - 5 pm Monday to Friday, although you will probably find someone around later than that. In addition to the innovative graphics hardware systems, we are developing software for a few projects. Periodically, there are openings for student cons who are interested in 3D software development; stop by if you are want to see what we are doing. Also, starting the winter quarter, the vislab will be coordinating a monthly series of seminars revolving around visualization. For information on the vislab facilities, projects, seminars or anything else we are doing please look up our web site at http://vislab.northwestern.edu.