IDAV Visualization and Graphics Research Group

The Visualization and Graphics Research Group of the Institute for Data Analysis and Visualization (IDAV) consists of eight faculty members and approximately 30-35 researchers, all working on problems in visualization, geometric modeling, computer graphics, computational geometry, graphics architecture, and immersive technologies. Our laboratory provides researchers with access to state-of-the-art computing and visualization technology through high-end graphics workstations, multiple PC clusters, parallel computing facilities, a multi-tile display wall, and virtual reality equipment for immersive stereoscopic rendering.

Our research efforts are supported through the National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health, Department of Energy (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Sandia National Laboratory), Electronic Arts, and several industrial sponsors.

Featured Project

"Particle Tracing"
Ralph W. Bruckschen, Falko Kuester, Bernd Hamann, Kenneth I. Joy

Numerical simulations are becoming more and more powerful, simulating physical phenomena at ever increasing resolution. No longer is it possible to visualize the resulting massive data sets using an exclusive in-core approach. The goal is to provide a scientist with intuitive and interactive tools for the exploration and analysis of large time-varying data sets. The challenge is to ... [more]

Latest News

June 1, 2007
Nelson Max has been awarded the Steven A. Coons Award, the ACM/SIGGRAPH lifetime achievement award in computer graphics.

February 16, 2007
Aaron Lefohn (Ph.D. in June 2006) has been awarded the "Best Doctoral Thesis" from the Computer Science Department at UC Davis. His thesis, entitled "Glift: Generic Data Structures for Graphics Hardware" has had significant impact throughout the computer graphics community

Sept 11, 2006
Researchers in IDAV receive prestigious Department of Energy SciDAC II Awards. Kwan-Liu Ma is the Principal Investigator for the SciDAC Institute for Ultrascale Visualization, and Ken Joy is co-PI of the Visualization and Analysis Center for Emerging Technologies (VACET), both supported through the SciDAC Program

Recent Publications

Pinar Muyan-Ozcelik, John D. Owens, Junyi Xia, Sanjiv S. Samant, "Fast Deformable Registration on the GPU: A CUDA Implementation of Demons", in "The 2008 International Conference on Computational Science and Its Applications", 2008

Mark Silberstein, Assaf Schuster, Dan Geiger, Anjul Patney, John D. Owens, "Efficient Computation of Sum-products on GPUs Through Software-Managed Cache", in "Proceedings of the 22nd ACM International Conference on Supercomputing", 2008

John C. Anderson, Christoph Garth, Mark A. Duchaineau, Kenneth I. Joy, "Discrete Multi-Material Interface Reconstruction for Volume Fraction Data", in "Computer Graphics Forum (Proc. of Eurographics/IEEE-VGTC Symposium on Visualization 2008)", Volume 27, Number 3, 2008

Zhi (Louis) Feng, Ingrid Hotz, Bernd Hamann, Kenneth I. Joy, "Dense Glyph Sampling for Visualization" in "Visualization and Processing of Tensor Fields: Advances and Perspectives", 2008

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