Applications Department
Mike Potel, Department Editor, 1994-present
July
Leonel Valbom and
Aderito Marcos (
May 2007
Where We At? Mobile
Phones Bring GPS to the Masses
Mar
Tom Geller: A look at how Google,
MapQuest, Yahoo, etc. acquire and combine satellite, aerial, & map
data to create geographic web services.
May 2006 Computer
Graphics Advances the Art of Anime
Jan Krikke: Japanese
animation industry cuts costs and extend capabilities by deploying
computer graphics.
Mar 2006 Visual
Effects and Video Analysis Lead to Olympics Victories
Laurel Sheppard: Graphics
applications for the 2006 Winter Olympics including
training/performance, venue design, broadcast technologies.
Jan 2006 A 3D
Visualization System for Hurricane Storm-Surge Flooding
K. Zhang, S-C Chen, P.
Singh, K Saleem, N. Zhao (Florida Intl. Univ): Modeling and
visualization of flooding due to hurricane storm surges.
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Nov 2005 Visualization
of Fluid Mixing in Microchannels
Kai Kang, Rene Chevray
(Columbia University): Visualization of fluid flow dynamics and
molecular diffusion in nanotechnology applications.
Sept 2005 Near Real-Time Tsunami Computer Simulations within Reach
Jan Krikke: Advances in
simulation and visualization of tsunami propagation in the aftermath of
the 2004 Indonesian tsunami.
July 2005 Cinematic Meeting Facilities Utilizing Large Displays
Gordan Kurtenbach,
George Fitzmaurice (Alias Wavefront): Practical experience with large
display installations in corporate briefing centers.
May 2005 Autostereoscopic Displays: Forget
the Funny Glasses
Ben Delaney: History of 3D displays with focus on
the underlying technologies and applications of autostereoscopic
display systems.
Mar 2005 Applications of
Computers to Dance
Tom Calvert, Lars Wilke, Rhonda Ryman, Ilene
Fox (Simon Fraser Univ., Credo Interactive, Univ. of Waterloo, Dance
Notation Bureau): Visualizing choreography, compose, edit, and animate
dance notation.
Jan
2005 Virtual Surgery Brings Back Smiles
Laurel Sheppard: "Smile Train" virtual surgery
software on CD sent to doctors in developing countries for training in
cleft palette surgery.
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Nov 2004 A
Decade
of Applications
Mike Potel (Wildcrest Associates): Reflections on
ten years of editing the IEEE CG&A Applications Department.
Sept 2004 Visual Analytics in the
Pharmaceutical Industry
Jeff Saffer, Vicki Burnett, Guang Chen,
Peter van der Spec (OmniViz,
Jan Krikke: Streaming video technologies
for cell phones, netcasters, portals, media convergence, and “The
World's Smallest Film Festival”.
May 2004
Seeing Data: New Methods for Understanding Information
Kirk Kroeker: Thinkmap, Insight, and TheBrain, three
innovative mapping & categorization systems for database and web
navigation.
Mar 2004 Noble Ape Simulation
Tom Barbalet (NobleApe): Landscape rendering
and brain activity modeling in the open source “Noble Ape Simulation”
project.
Jan
2004 Virtual Building for Construction Projects
Laurel Sheppard: Examples of construction
engineering projects which employ 4D modeling & planning using
time-dependent CAD systems.
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Nov 2003 Modeling
Supernovae: Braving a Bold New Frontier
Anna Turnage: Astrophysicists
use supercomputing and visualization software and hardware to probe
black holes.
Sept
2003 An Animated Day At The Races
Gene Koprowski: A real-time horseracing animation
& broadcast system by
July 2003 Understanding
Fire and Smoke Flow Through Modeling and
Visualization
G Forney, D Madrzykowski, K McGrattan,
L. Sheppard (NIST): Fire Dynamics Simulator & Smokeview viewer for
studying building fires.
May
2003 3D Design Tools Speed NASA Space Shuttle Work
Mar
2003 Pervasive 3D Viewing for Product Data Management
Bruce D’Amora, Fausto Bernardini (IBM):
Design, implementation, and performance of 3D viewers on PDAs for
mechanical CAD applications.
Jan
2003 Samurai Romanesque, J2ME, and the
Jan Krikke: Mobile/phone-based games, including
massive multi-player games, technologies, development, and standards
(J2ME v. MS).
May 2002 Reducing Aircraft Noise with Computer
Graphics
Anna Turnage, Cramblitt & Co.:
Reducing
noise pollution caused by jets & helicopters using parallel
computers,
VR systems, and advanced viz software in the Penn State's Aerospace
Engineering
Dept.
Mar 2002 Computer
Graphics: Helping to Cope With
Terrorism
Ben Delaney: Graphics technology in the
aftermath of the September 11 WTC attack including media coverage,
rescue
& recovery, analysis of structural failures, rebuilding and
memorial
plans.
Jan 2002 Understanding Normal Cardiac Development
Using
Animated Models
J.-M. Schleich, C. Almange, J.-L.
Dillenseger,
J.-L. Coatrieux, & Stephane Andru, Univ. of Renne: Modeling &
animation
of heart morphology & development.
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Nov 2001 Graphics in Computational Paleontology
Stephen Figgins: Techniques used to
analyze
fossils including serial sectioning, scanning, surface reconstruction,
& mathematical modeling.
Sept 2001 Speeding Things Up: Bicycle Racing Uses
Computers
Before Reaching Starting Line
Mary Hanson & Emmanouil Skoufos:
Graphics
for optimizing design & performance in world-class bicycle racing
such
as the Tour de France.
July 2001 Something to Smile About: 3D Graphics
are
Revolutionizing Oral Health Care
Mary Hanson: Examples of how 3D graphics
are enabling new techniques in orthodontia, dental implants, and
maxillofacial
surgery.
May 2001 Graphics Applications over the Wireless
Web:
Japan Sets the Pace
Jan Krikke: The latest developments in
third
generation wireless standards and applications for cellular phones.
Mar 2001 3D
Mapping of Underwater Caves
Barbara Anne am Ende, US Deep Caving Team,
Inc.: Exploration and mapping of Florida’s Wakulla Springs underwater
caves
with the US Deep Caving Team.
Jan 2001 Wired Worlds: Exploring the Digital
Frontier
Tony Sweeny, National Museum of
Photography,
Film & Television: Expert guided tour of NMPFT and sampler of
innovative
digital media.
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Nov 2000 Beyond First Aid: Emergency Response
Teams
Turn to Graphics
Mary E. Hanson: Mapping, training, and
emergency
situation management using GIS, visualization, web, and wireless
technologies.
Sept 2000 Fingerprint-based forensics in Argentina
Mary E. Hanson: Fingerprint identification
systems used in investigation of Argentina’s Desaparecidos (“The
Dissappeared”)
July 2000 Axonometry: A Matter of Perspective
Jan Krikke: Discussion of axonometric
drawing,
its origins in Japanese art, and its applications in computer graphics.
May 2000 Visualization in Urban Planning: They
Didn’t
Build LA in a Day
Ben Delaney: Cities use visualization and
simulation for community planning, with examples in LA, Philadelphia,
NYC,
Washington DC.
Mar 2000 Maya: “So Ya Wanna Be a Rock ‘n Roll
Star”
Revisited
Jeffrey Abouaf: Impact of Maya on art
education
and its use by graphic arts students in film, game, and video
production.
Jan 2000 Envisioning
Yuan Ming Yuan (Garden of
Perfect
Brightness)
Lifeng Wang, Christine Wang, and Alain
Fournier,
University of British Columbia. Detailed computer reconstruction
of the Yuan Ming Yuan gardens in Beijing, China, destroyed in 1860
.
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Nov 1999 The NYSE's 3D Trading Floor
Ben Delaney. The New York Stock
Exchange's
ambitious command and control center for real-time monitoring of stock
trading activities.
Sept 1999 Night
Vision: Infrared Takes to the
Road
Keri Schreiner. The technology and
challenges behind Cadillac's revolutionary heads-up visual assist
system.
July 1999 Parametric Wafermap Visualization
Y. Arthur Lin, Analog Devices. Use
of interactive 2D data visualization techniques in the analysis of
semiconductor
manufacturing defects.
May 1999 Virtual Recovery of Excavated Relics
Jung Yu Zheng and Zhong Li Zhang, Kyushu
Institute of Technology: Use of 3D imaging, VR, and multimedia in
excavating
the Terra Cotta Warriors and Horses archeological find in Xi’an, China.
Mar 1999 VizSim Technology Helps Find Oil Faster
Ben Delaney: History and recent advances
in systems for visualizing seismic data in the oil exploration industry.
Jan 1999 The Florentine Pietá: Can
Visualization
Solve the 450-Year-Old Mystery?
Jeffrey Abouaf: Advanced imaging
techniques
used to create a detailed 3D model of the famous Michelangelo statue
and
analyze its controversial restoration.
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Nov 1998 Variations on Perfection: The
Séquin-Collins
Sculpture Generator
Jeffrey Abouaf: The use of computer
graphics
to design, prototype, and fabricate sculptures based on high-order
mathematical
shapes.
Sept 1998 On the Trail of the Shadow Woman: The
Mystery
of Motion Capture
Ben Delaney: Recent examples of using
motion
capture in movies, commercials, and games, plus history, technologies,
economics, applications, and issues.
Jul 1998 Trial
by Fire: Teleoperated Robot
Targets
Chernobyl
Jeffrey Abouaf: SGI and partners undertake
the "Pioneer Project" to build a specialized robot for remote
investigation
and visualization of the Chernobyl Power Plant containment effort.
May 1998 Imaging in Medicine--Here's Looking at
You,
Kid
Ben Delaney: Highlighting some of the
latest
imaging and VR techniques in medicine, including diagnosis and
treatment
of unique conditions, training applications, and planning.
Mar 1998 Fraunhofer Institute: Building on a
Decade
of Computer Graphics Research
Rae Earnshaw: Report on the opening of the
new Fraunhofer Institute, Darmstadt, Germany, with speeches, lectures,
workshop, demos, plus reviews of past work and future directions.
Jan 1998 Motion
Sick in Cyberspace
Mike Potel: Report on people who get
"motion"
sickness from VR systems, immersive displays, and video games,
including
possible inherent limitations to their applicability.
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Nov 1997 Faster, Better, Cheaper -- NASA
Visualizes
the Solar System
Ben Delaney: Survey of latest NASA
planetary
missions, highlighting breakthrough economics of new technologies
for imaging, transmission, processing, and visualization.
Sept 1997 Digital Orthophotography: Mapping with
Pictures
Anne C. Lear: Overview of the U.S.
Geological
Society National Digital Orthophoto Project: history, rationale,
technology,
process, and numerous application areas.
July 1997 Virtual Reality Provides Real Therapy
Anne C. Lear: Using VR systems to treat
phobias, anxiety and neurological disorders, and pain and disability
management,
with discussion of corresponding VR requirements.
May 1997 Meeting the Future at the University of
Michigan
Media Union
Willam P. Flanagan with Rae Earnshaw
(sidebar
by Randy Frank): Guided tour of the Uof M Media Union facility,
including
history, objectives, facilities, vision, and current projects.
Mar 1997 The
FoxTrax Hockey Puck Tracking System
Rick Cavallaro, News Corporation (Fox
Sports):
Key team member describes history, goals, problems, and alternatives
behind
the Fox TV NHL hockey puck enhancement system.
Jan 1997 Archaeological Models: Pretty Pictures
or
Research Tools?
Dave Sims: Harrison Eiteljorg talkes about
the uses of computer models in archaeology, ranging from appreciation
and
study to research and restoration.
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Nov 1996 Computer
Graphics and DNA Sequencing
Mike Potel: DNA sequencing uses
interactive
graphics for instrument control, analysis, storage/retrieval, and
pattern
matching of high volume genetic information.
Sept 1996 3D Scanning in Apparel Design and
Engineering
Steven Paquette, US Army: Multiple
applications
of 3D whole body scanning systems in clothing manufacture,
anthropometry,
equipment design, medicine.
July 1996 VRML Adds a New Dimension to Web
Browsing
Karen Whitehouse: A survey of interesting
VRML sites, featuring a wide range of commercial, scientific, and
artistic
applications.
May 1996 WWW Extends "Apprentice's Assistant" to
Global
Medical Resource
Dave Sims: A tour of University of Iowa's
innovative Virtual Hospital project.
Re-creating a Lost Village in 3D Space
Dave Sims: Anthropologists recreate
pre-Columbian
village in Peru using VR.
Mar 1996 Weather Without the Weatherman
Karen Whitehouse: Multiple uses of
computer
graphics at WWW sites for weather maps, forecasting, live weather
cameras,
and study of special phenomena.
Jan 1996 Putting the Visible Human to Work
Dave Sims: Four examples of applications
and products based on the data sets from the National Library of
Medicine's
Visible Human project.
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Nov 1995 Molecules at Your Fingertips
Dave Sims: Using stereolithographic
fabrication
to assist molecular visualization for a blind chemist at New Jersey
Institute
of Technology.
Sept 1995 Undersea
and in the Air VR Offers a
Thrill
a Minute
Dave Sims: Four of the latest examples of
advanced graphics-based rides and amusements.
July 1995 From the Ground Up
Dave Sims: James Starrs of GWU solves 1953
CIA agent murder using physical modeling
Building a High-Resolution Seismic Model
Dave Sims: Kevin Furlong at Penn State and
USGS reconstructs 3D geology under SF Bay.
May 1995 At Oak Ridge, a Car Crash on the
World
Wide Web
Dave Sims: ORNL uses high resolution car
crash simulation instead of real cars.
Mar 1995 See How They Run: Modeling
Evacuations
in VR
Dave Sims: Colt Virtual Reality,
Ltd. performs dynamic simulations and visualization of crowd behavior
in
support of architectural design.
Jan 1995 Keeping an Electronic Eye on the
Road
Karen Whitehouse: University of Michigan
Transportation Research Institute uses Perceptron 3D imaging camera to
study traffic patterns.
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Nov 1994 Comet
Explodes on Jupiter -- and the Web
Karen Whitehouse: Shoemaker-Levy comet
collision
causes unprecedented WWW graphics activity.