NIST immersive visualization environment available. (News Briefs).NIST (National Institute of Standards & Technology, Washington, DC, www.nist.gov) The standards-defining agency of the U.S. government, formerly the National Bureau of Standards. It is one of three agencies that fall under the Technology Administration (www.technology. has developed an immersive visualization See virtual reality and CAVE. environment that can be used to gain increased insight into large, complex data sets. Such data sets are becoming more commonplace at NIST, as high performance parallel computing Solving a problem with multiple computers or computers made up of multiple processors. It is an umbrella term for a variety of architectures, including symmetric multiprocessing (SMP), clusters of SMP systems, massively parallel processors (MPPs) and grid computing. is used to develop higher fidelity simulations, and combinatorial experimental techniques are used in the laboratory. Immersive visualization environments allow the scientist to explore complex data interactively. Fully immersive computer graphics include one or more large rear projection screens to encompass peripheral vision peripheral vision n. Vision produced by light rays falling on areas of the retina beyond the macula. Also called indirect vision. Peripheral vision , stereoscopic stereoscopic /ster·eo·scop·ic/ (ster?e-o-skop´ik) having the effect of a stereoscope; giving objects a solid or three-dimensional appearance. ster·e·o·scop·ic n. 1. display for increased depth perception, and head tracking for realistic perspective. The NIST Immersive Visualization Laboratory is a Reconfigurable Automatic Virtual Environment (RAVE) from a private company. The two-wall RAVE is configured as an immersive corner with two 2.44 m X 2.44 m (8 ft X 8 ft) screens flush to the floor. The large corner configuration provides a very wide field of peripheral vision, with stereoscopic display and head tracking. For more information about scientific visualization at NIST, see http://math.nist.gov/mcsd/savg/vis/. CONTACT: Steve Satterfield, (301) 975-5637; steven.satterfield@nist.gov. |
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