Welcome

The Visual Computing group is dedicated to developing powerful interactive 3D tools for scientific visualization and visual simulation. Our expertise is in multi-resolution data representation, time-critical graphics, external memory algorithms, and applications of virtual reality technology to visual simulation. Our projects range from desktop 3D tools to immersive virtual environments with combined visual and haptic feedback. In particular, our team is currently focusing on applications such as real-time medical simulation, time-critical visualization of large scale digital terrain models, time-critical visualization of gigantic point clouds and triangle meshes generated by 3D scanning and numerical simulation, and interactive visualization of global illumination solutions.

Open Source

We release some of our research code as open source: The Spaceland C++ class library is available from spacelib.sourceforge.net. The RATMAN framework for terrain streaming and rendering is available from ratman.sourceforge.net. The BRAIN system for 3D reconstruction and visualization of architectonic, neurophysiological and tract tracing data of the primate cerebral cortex is available from www.crs4.it/vic/RESTRICTED/brain/. The code is freely available for research purposes.

New monograph

• Sung-eui Yoon, Enrico Gobbetti, David Kasik, and Dinesh Manocha. Real-time Massive Model Rendering. Volume 2 of Synthesis Lectures on Computer Graphics and Animation, Morgan and Claypool Publishers, Aug 2008, 122 pages.