http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/01/3d-viswall-makes-scientists-drool-your-flat-panel-weep/ Engadget Comments for 3D VisWall makes scientists drool, your flat-panel weep http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/01/3d-viswall-makes-scientists-drool-your-flat-panel-weep/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/01/3d-viswall-makes-scientists-drool-your-flat-panel-weep/Apr 1st 2008 11:40AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/01/3d-viswall-makes-scientists-drool-your-flat-panel-weep/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/01/3d-viswall-makes-scientists-drool-your-flat-panel-weep/Apr 1st 2008 7:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/01/3d-viswall-makes-scientists-drool-your-flat-panel-weep/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/01/3d-viswall-makes-scientists-drool-your-flat-panel-weep/May 27th 2008 5:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/01/3d-viswall-makes-scientists-drool-your-flat-panel-weep/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/01/3d-viswall-makes-scientists-drool-your-flat-panel-weep/Apr 1st 2008 11:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/01/3d-viswall-makes-scientists-drool-your-flat-panel-weep/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/01/3d-viswall-makes-scientists-drool-your-flat-panel-weep/Apr 1st 2008 11:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/01/3d-viswall-makes-scientists-drool-your-flat-panel-weep/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/01/3d-viswall-makes-scientists-drool-your-flat-panel-weep/Apr 1st 2008 4:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/01/3d-viswall-makes-scientists-drool-your-flat-panel-weep/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/01/3d-viswall-makes-scientists-drool-your-flat-panel-weep/Mar 5th 2009 9:07AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/01/3d-viswall-makes-scientists-drool-your-flat-panel-weep/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/01/3d-viswall-makes-scientists-drool-your-flat-panel-weep/Apr 1st 2008 11:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/01/3d-viswall-makes-scientists-drool-your-flat-panel-weep/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/01/3d-viswall-makes-scientists-drool-your-flat-panel-weep/Apr 1st 2008 11:39AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/01/3d-viswall-makes-scientists-drool-your-flat-panel-weep/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/01/3d-viswall-makes-scientists-drool-your-flat-panel-weep/Apr 1st 2008 12:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/01/3d-viswall-makes-scientists-drool-your-flat-panel-weep/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/01/3d-viswall-makes-scientists-drool-your-flat-panel-weep/
Seriously, "The ATLAS Experiment." Not only does the LHC look badass, it even sounds the part.]]>Apr 1st 2008 1:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/01/3d-viswall-makes-scientists-drool-your-flat-panel-weep/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/01/3d-viswall-makes-scientists-drool-your-flat-panel-weep/Personally doom would be great, but I think it's more of a executive toy. And for a school it's just a reason to increase the tuition or get into a popular blog.
Sure sign that Tuft's waisting someones money.]]>Apr 1st 2008 11:44AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/01/3d-viswall-makes-scientists-drool-your-flat-panel-weep/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/01/3d-viswall-makes-scientists-drool-your-flat-panel-weep/Apr 1st 2008 12:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/01/3d-viswall-makes-scientists-drool-your-flat-panel-weep/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/01/3d-viswall-makes-scientists-drool-your-flat-panel-weep/Apr 1st 2008 2:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/01/3d-viswall-makes-scientists-drool-your-flat-panel-weep/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/01/3d-viswall-makes-scientists-drool-your-flat-panel-weep/
Other research that folks at Tufts either are or plan to use the visualization wall for include fluid dynamics, simulation of quantum mechanics, and even advanced mathematics (fractals, chaos theory, etc). Go to YouTube and search for videos involving fluid dynamics and imagine being able to view those in real-time in full high resolution 3D. For researchers that sort of thing is invaluable.

If you go to the linked article you'll see a smaller photograph of Bruce Boghosian, another professor at Tufts. Behind him in that picture the wall is displaying a 3D high resolution model of the air flow of a tornado. Unfortunately it's a small photo so you can't see very much, and it's a 2D photo of a 3D video. In any event, it was rendered by the NCSA from actual data taken of a powerful tornado. I was told that after rendering the data and viewing the images the researchers spotted some behavior involving multiple twisters interacting with each other that they hadn't known about before.

You can see some stills of that tornado video here: http://access.ncsa.uiuc.edu/Stories/supertwister/page2.htm]]>Apr 1st 2008 3:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/01/3d-viswall-makes-scientists-drool-your-flat-panel-weep/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/01/3d-viswall-makes-scientists-drool-your-flat-panel-weep/
Waisting?

If you meant "wasting," in a way it is.

If you meant that seriously, I wonder how you can gain pounds with cash.]]>Apr 1st 2008 4:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/01/3d-viswall-makes-scientists-drool-your-flat-panel-weep/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/01/3d-viswall-makes-scientists-drool-your-flat-panel-weep/Apr 1st 2008 11:49AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/01/3d-viswall-makes-scientists-drool-your-flat-panel-weep/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/01/3d-viswall-makes-scientists-drool-your-flat-panel-weep/Apr 1st 2008 12:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/01/3d-viswall-makes-scientists-drool-your-flat-panel-weep/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/01/3d-viswall-makes-scientists-drool-your-flat-panel-weep/He most definitely seems like a passionate man the way he does a cupping motion with his hand.]]>Apr 1st 2008 12:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/01/3d-viswall-makes-scientists-drool-your-flat-panel-weep/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/01/3d-viswall-makes-scientists-drool-your-flat-panel-weep/
Prepare to welcome your new Combine Overlords!]]>Apr 1st 2008 11:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/01/3d-viswall-makes-scientists-drool-your-flat-panel-weep/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/01/3d-viswall-makes-scientists-drool-your-flat-panel-weep/Apr 1st 2008 11:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/01/3d-viswall-makes-scientists-drool-your-flat-panel-weep/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/01/3d-viswall-makes-scientists-drool-your-flat-panel-weep/
Can you imagine Gran Turismo 5 on this thing?!
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Those guys are right, it's gotta' be some kind of a Bolshi plot to create mini black holes to lead us all to our doom. I'll bet Vlad (I am not an Impaler) Putin is behind all this.

]]>Apr 1st 2008 11:56AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/01/3d-viswall-makes-scientists-drool-your-flat-panel-weep/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/01/3d-viswall-makes-scientists-drool-your-flat-panel-weep/Apr 1st 2008 11:58AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/01/3d-viswall-makes-scientists-drool-your-flat-panel-weep/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/01/3d-viswall-makes-scientists-drool-your-flat-panel-weep/
Robobagins is right we will get Howard the Duck and the Dark Overlords. ]]>Apr 1st 2008 12:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/01/3d-viswall-makes-scientists-drool-your-flat-panel-weep/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/01/3d-viswall-makes-scientists-drool-your-flat-panel-weep/Apr 1st 2008 12:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/01/3d-viswall-makes-scientists-drool-your-flat-panel-weep/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/01/3d-viswall-makes-scientists-drool-your-flat-panel-weep/
If you "wait a year" you'll end up waiting forever because there will always be new technology coming down the pike that you'll end up waiting for.]]>Apr 1st 2008 12:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/01/3d-viswall-makes-scientists-drool-your-flat-panel-weep/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/01/3d-viswall-makes-scientists-drool-your-flat-panel-weep/
The only reason to buy something the moment it comes out is if you want/need features that are only available on that particular item and want/need them today. And you'll pay a premium for that. I was wondering aloud if Tufts NEEDED that display.

Good to hear it's being funded by the NSF. But (without knowing all of the details) I still maintain that the cost was extravagant for a univ.]]>Apr 1st 2008 1:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/01/3d-viswall-makes-scientists-drool-your-flat-panel-weep/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/01/3d-viswall-makes-scientists-drool-your-flat-panel-weep/
Universities like Tufts are very much the same. Professors, especially those involved in advanced research, need tools like these to properly advance their research. It's not at all uncommon for universities to lure researchers and other faculty from other universities by offering facilities like these and other research tools. Many of the other well known universities in the Boston area already have visualization facilities like this, but Tufts is the newest and most powerful in the Boston area. Hopefully it will attract researchers to Tufts, which will in turn attract research grants from organizations like the NSF. Research (including the publicity, the grants that can be received, etc.) are big deals for universities, so attracting big names in various research projects is a big deal for them.

I recently heard of a professor at another university who demanded a 4,000 CPU research computing cluster that he needed to continue his research on. If the university didn't provide him with one then he'd leave for another university that could give him what he wanted. Rather than lose the researcher the university found the funding to build the computer cluster that he demanded. There wasn't anything like that involved with this visualization wall here at Tufts (as far as I know) but that can give you an idea as to how seriously universities in general view their researchers.]]>Apr 1st 2008 2:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/01/3d-viswall-makes-scientists-drool-your-flat-panel-weep/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/01/3d-viswall-makes-scientists-drool-your-flat-panel-weep/http://sciviz.tufts.edu.

-Bruce]]>Apr 1st 2008 12:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/01/3d-viswall-makes-scientists-drool-your-flat-panel-weep/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/01/3d-viswall-makes-scientists-drool-your-flat-panel-weep/Apr 1st 2008 12:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/01/3d-viswall-makes-scientists-drool-your-flat-panel-weep/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/01/3d-viswall-makes-scientists-drool-your-flat-panel-weep/
Now, if it cost less than a ferrari....]]>Apr 1st 2008 12:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/01/3d-viswall-makes-scientists-drool-your-flat-panel-weep/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/01/3d-viswall-makes-scientists-drool-your-flat-panel-weep/
Though I wonder if you could hook it up to a flight simulator? That would be pretty entertaining.]]>Apr 1st 2008 12:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/01/3d-viswall-makes-scientists-drool-your-flat-panel-weep/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/01/3d-viswall-makes-scientists-drool-your-flat-panel-weep/Apr 1st 2008 3:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/01/3d-viswall-makes-scientists-drool-your-flat-panel-weep/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/01/3d-viswall-makes-scientists-drool-your-flat-panel-weep/Apr 1st 2008 1:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/01/3d-viswall-makes-scientists-drool-your-flat-panel-weep/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/01/3d-viswall-makes-scientists-drool-your-flat-panel-weep/Apr 1st 2008 1:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/01/3d-viswall-makes-scientists-drool-your-flat-panel-weep/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/01/3d-viswall-makes-scientists-drool-your-flat-panel-weep/Apr 1st 2008 1:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/01/3d-viswall-makes-scientists-drool-your-flat-panel-weep/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/01/3d-viswall-makes-scientists-drool-your-flat-panel-weep/Apr 1st 2008 1:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/01/3d-viswall-makes-scientists-drool-your-flat-panel-weep/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/01/3d-viswall-makes-scientists-drool-your-flat-panel-weep/http://www.mechdyne.com/markets/researchEd/UWales/UWales.htm]]>Apr 2nd 2008 1:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/01/3d-viswall-makes-scientists-drool-your-flat-panel-weep/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/01/3d-viswall-makes-scientists-drool-your-flat-panel-weep/Apr 1st 2008 1:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/01/3d-viswall-makes-scientists-drool-your-flat-panel-weep/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/01/3d-viswall-makes-scientists-drool-your-flat-panel-weep/Apr 1st 2008 3:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/01/3d-viswall-makes-scientists-drool-your-flat-panel-weep/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/01/3d-viswall-makes-scientists-drool-your-flat-panel-weep/Apr 1st 2008 3:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/01/3d-viswall-makes-scientists-drool-your-flat-panel-weep/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/01/3d-viswall-makes-scientists-drool-your-flat-panel-weep/Apr 1st 2008 3:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/01/3d-viswall-makes-scientists-drool-your-flat-panel-weep/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/01/3d-viswall-makes-scientists-drool-your-flat-panel-weep/Apr 1st 2008 4:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/01/3d-viswall-makes-scientists-drool-your-flat-panel-weep/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/01/3d-viswall-makes-scientists-drool-your-flat-panel-weep/http://www.dimagemaker.com/article.php?articleID=1137]]>Apr 1st 2008 4:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/01/3d-viswall-makes-scientists-drool-your-flat-panel-weep/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/01/3d-viswall-makes-scientists-drool-your-flat-panel-weep/Apr 1st 2008 4:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/01/3d-viswall-makes-scientists-drool-your-flat-panel-weep/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/01/3d-viswall-makes-scientists-drool-your-flat-panel-weep/Apr 1st 2008 6:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/01/3d-viswall-makes-scientists-drool-your-flat-panel-weep/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/01/3d-viswall-makes-scientists-drool-your-flat-panel-weep/http://www.infitec.net/) for it's 3D.]]>Apr 1st 2008 7:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/04/01/3d-viswall-makes-scientists-drool-your-flat-panel-weep/http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/01/3d-viswall-makes-scientists-drool-your-flat-panel-weep/Apr 3rd 2008 11:19PM