Workers in scientific visualization seek to use the power of modern graphics workstations to discover the information in large data sets such as generated by simulations and various new imaging technologies.
The close proximity of the national laboratories to the University of New Mexico makes New Mexico a unique place to pursue research and teaching in computer graphics and scientific visualization.
The availability of unique supercomputing facilities at the Albuquerque High Performance Computer Center, Sandia National Laboratories and the Los Alamos National Laboratory have led to a number of cooperative efforts in visualization, massively parallel rendering, virtual reality, and application areas such as robotics.
Faculty involved include:
- Ed Angel (CS)
- Tom Caudell (EECE)
- John Brayer (CS)
- Skip Van Wyk (Architecture)
- Barak Pearlmutter(CS)
- Lance Williams (CS)
Graduate students include
We are also inolved with interdisciplinary projects with
students in the School of Archtecture and the College of
Fine Arts. For a collection of recent student work see:
Classes include:
- CS 433: Computer Graphics
- CS 534: Advanced Computer Graphics
- CS 390/490 Three Dimensional Graphics using Alias/Wavefront
- CS 491/591 Scientific Visualization