Abstract: Oceanographic research at PMEL using PC and UNIX based 3-D stereo visualization (2002 Annual)

Wednesday, 16 January 2002

Oceanographic research at PMEL using PC and UNIX based 3-D stereo visualization

Christopher W. Moore, JISAO/Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA; and N. Soreide

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Research work at NOAA's Pacific Marine Environmental Labs will be presented showcasing the latest desktop analysis and visualization tools

in use today. Techniques will be shown for piping interactive, stereo 3-D graphics from a UNIX-based visualization server to a desktop PC, utilizing the latest PC hardware acceleration. This new, inexpensive method for utilizing local video card graphics over a local area network has revolutionized high-end stereo visualization of oceanographic and atmospheric data.

This poster-session demo will not only show the latest PMEL research in Fisheries Oceanography using a massively parallel supercomputer, and in-situ data from NOAA's tropical Pacific TAO-Triton array in full stereo 3-D, but tips and tricks will be shown for using inexpensize hardware and free software at the desktop as another tool for analysis, for creating web-based animations, or for creating high-end stereo animations at presentations.

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