DONNA J. COX, MFA, PHD MICHAEL AIKEN CHAIR DIRECTOR ADVANCED VISUALIZATION LABORATORY (AVL) PROFESSOR SCHOOL OF ART AND DESIGN, FAA

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1 DONNA J. COX, MFA, PHD MICHAEL AIKEN CHAIR DIRECTOR ADVANCED VISUALIZATION LABORATORY (AVL) PROFESSOR SCHOOL OF ART AND DESIGN, FAA DIRECTOR RESEARCH AND EDUCATION DIVISION CULTURE AND SOCIETY THEME LEAD DIRECTOR EDREAM INSTITUTE NATIONAL CENTER FOR SUPERCOMPUTING APPLICATIONS (NCSA) UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN

In the movie "2010," the same computer created the multicolored surging clouds of the planet Jupiter.

Productions, the brainchild of John Whitney Jr.

Art mimicked life in images drawn from the detailed pictures of Jovian whorls sent back to Earth by the Voyager spacecraft.

2 In the movie "2010," the same computer created the multicolored surging clouds of the planet Jupiter. Art mimicked life in images drawn from the detailed pictures of Jovian whorls sent bac These effects are some of the creations of Digital Productions, the brainchild of John Whitney Jr. and Gary Demos, who manage a team of 80 computer image specialists, film makers and tec multicolored surging clouds of the planet Jupiter. Art mimicked life in images drawn from the detailed pictures of Jovian whorls sent back to Earth by the Voyager spacecraft. These effects are some of the creations of Digital Productions, the brainchild of John Whitney Jr. and Gary Demos, who manage a team of 80 computer image specialists, film makers and tec Compulage ICARE: cox color editor Elizabeth Cox Donna Cox University of Wisconsin Madison

3 Cray NCSA NCSA Founding Director Larry Smarr Professor Astronomy

4 Assistant Professor Donna Cox, NCSA opening 1985 Donna Cox, 1988 courtesy Art PhotographerKurt Fishback

5 Renaissance Team Professor George Francis Cray NCSA Ray Idaszak, student Venus and friends 88

6 Astrophysical Jet 1986 Siggraph Electronic Theater Dr. Michael Norman NCSA Donna Cox, Access

7 Richard Ellson, Kodak research scientist 3D glyphs 1986 Plastic Injection Molding Kodak

8 hierglyphics empowering people to read postmodern glyphs

9 Visual Metaphors (visaphors) Supercomputing Conference Baltimore, 2002

10 Renaissance Teams in Education Marc Olano, Cox, Patterson, Robin Barger, Chris Landreth

11 The Power of Story Donna Cox and Roger Ebert Champaign IL, circa 1993

12 CINEMATIC PRESENTATION OF SCIENTIFIC DATA DATA-DRIVEN VISUALS FOR NONFICTION NARRATIVES AND PUBLIC OUTREACH Colliding Galaxies Digital painting by Don Dixon Colliding Galaxies NCSA Venusian Volcano Digital painting by ESA-AOES Media Lab Venusian Volcano NCSA

13 Cosmic Voyage IMAX movie 1996 nominated for Academy Award 1997 Bob Patterson, Cox, Mr.&Mrs. Bayley Silleck, Mr. & Mrs. Jeff Martin

14 VIRTUAL DIRECTOR NCSA/AVL SINCE 1994 CAVE VIRTUAL REALITY ENVIRONMENT Bob Patterson, Cox, Marcus Thiebaux

15 Virtual Reality Remote Collaboration between research universities Cox, Robert Patterson, Marcus Thiebaux, Stuart Levy Professor Glen Wheels, Dr. Cathy Lascara, Old Dominion University

16 COMPUTATIONAL SCIENCE AND VISUALIZATION Blue Waters Supercomputing Facility

17 THE ANATOMY OF A TORNADO VISUALIZATION AND BUILDING THE VISUAL METAPHOR

19 RECENT FILM PROJECTS DATA-DRIVEN VISUALS FOR NONFICTION NARRATIVES

20 HUBBLE 3D IMAX FILM AJ Christensen, Patterson, Matt Hall, Cox, Stuart Levy, Alex Betts

to large scale Universe, Cosmic Web computational

21 HUBBLE 3D IMAX FILM Orion Nebula generated from Hubble data 5 minutes Flight from Milky Way galaxy to large scale Universe, Cosmic Web computational science 5 minutes stereo each eye at 5000 pixel resolution

excerpt: Hubble3D IMAX movie narrated by Leonardo DiCaprio Courtesy Warner

23 DYNAMIC EARTH DIGITAL DOME FILM Hurricane Katrina Supercomputer Simulation Dr. Wei Wang NCAR Narrated by Liam Neeson translated into 13 languages Co-production of Denver Museum of Nature and Science, Thomas Lucas Productions, Spitz Inc., NCSA

24 Hurricane Katrina data by Dr. Wei Wang, NCAR

25 NCAR Dr. Wei Wang

26 Virtual Director ncsa/avl since 1994

27 Virtual Director ncsa/avl since 1994 AVL using Virtual Director., NCSA

29 Solar Superstorms First CADENS Digital Museum Show Release Summer 2015 Narrated by Benedict Cumberbatch translated into 8 languages

31 NASA SDO SOLAR DYNAMICS TELESCOPE OBSERVATIONS STATS INSTITUTION WAVELENGTHS TIME SCALE RESOLUTION DATA SIZE NASA SOLAR DYNAMICS OBSERVATORY 304A, VISIBLE LIGHT 6 HOURS OF JAN X 4096 PIXELS 1499 TIMESTEPS, 17 MB

HOMA KARIMABADI, UC SAN DIEGO SOLAR WIND AND MAGNETOSPHERE STATS SPATIAL SCALE TIME SCALE RESOLUTION DATA SIZE SIMULATED AT 100 KILOMETER GRID CELLS ~30

32 HOMA KARIMABADI, UC SAN DIEGO SOLAR WIND AND MAGNETOSPHERE STATS SPATIAL SCALE TIME SCALE RESOLUTION DATA SIZE SIMULATED AT 100 KILOMETER GRID CELLS ~30 MINUTES 2D: 2048 X 8192 PIXELS 3D: 2048 X 4096 X D: 220 TIMESTEPS, 30 GB 3D: 47 TIMESTEPS, 12 TB BLUE WATERS, UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN

35 A Beau(ful Planet courtesy of IMAX Corpora(on Playing now at museums and translated into more than 6 languages

36 50 minute documentary on DES/ LSST Amazon Prime

38 Tao of Bach 2012 KCPA performance directed by Chungliang Al Huang software Alex Betts Michael Fitzpatrick KCPA theater

39 THE TEAM ADVANCED VISUALIZATION LAB Jeff Carpenter, Cox, Robert Patterson, Kalina Borkiewicz, Stuart Levy, AJ Christensen

40 THANK YOU

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