Re: Wk05 - Elings Open House OR Review Assigned Paper
Posted: Mon Dec 10, 2012 8:22 pm
"Visualizing, hearing and exploring complex multi-dimensional data provides insight that is essential for progress in a number of critical areas of science and engineering." The Allosphere is a unique scientific instrument that supplies its audience with rich and compelling visualizations. Located in the California Nano Systems Institute building (Elings Hall) at the University of California, Santa Barbara, the Allosphere delivers rich, coherent, interactive, high-resolution 3D video and audio streams. It displays an extensive amount of scientific data in real-time. This 3-story cube is truly revolutionary and provides means for more complex and much varied research uses.
The Allosphere, as a research tool, tests the visual capabilities of new technologies. With this instrument, scientists, artists, and engineers have complete control over their audience by manipulating variables with computer technology. Upon entering this virtual environment one is presented with a immersive landscape. As one travels through the landscape, viewing at a microorganism perspective, they find themselves immersed in scientific data to better understand it.