Evans & Sutherland Distinguished Lecture Series
The Joy of Visualization
Thomas Ertl
University of Stuttgart
Host: Chuck Hansen
Monday, March 27, 2006
101 EMCB
Refreshments 3:20 p.m.
Lecture 3:40 p.m.
As visualization is becoming a well established scientific discipline, the research community is discussing the value and the future of visualization. While those considerations are necessary for the development of our field and for funding perspectives, we should not forget that many of us are also driven by the joy which we get out of working in our field. For me this joy results from the broad variety of challenges and projects that can be pursued at different time scales. We can perform long-term research improving mathematically involved algorithms and we can work on short-term implementations driven by dynamic hardware technology. Combining both can result in applications which are economically relevant and useful for society. I will give several examples from research performed in the Visualization and Interactive Systems group at the University of Stuttgart. They include a summary of our contributions to volume visualization with a focus on recent results, some experiences with a commercially successful flow visualization tool, and our attempts to employ graphics techniques for those who cannot see.
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