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Title

Future directions in astronomy visualization

Author(s)

Fluke, Christopher J.;  Bourke, Paul D.;  O'Donovan, David

Abstract

Despite the large budgets spent annually on astronomical research equipment such as telescopes, instruments, and supercomputers, the general trend is to analyze and view the resulting datasets using small, two-dimensional displays. We report here on alternative advanced image displays, with an emphasis on displays that we have constructed, including stereoscopic projection, multiple projector tiled displays, and a digital dome. These displays can provide astronomers with new ways of exploring the terabyte and petabyte datasets that are now regularly being produced from all-sky surveys, high-resolution computer simulations, and Virtual Observatory projects. We also present a summary of the Advanced Image Displays for Astronomy (AIDA) survey which we conducted from 2005 March-May, in order to raise some issues pertinent to the current and future level of use of advanced image displays.

Publication type

Journal article

Research centre

Swinburne University of Technology. Faculty of Information and Communication Technologies. Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing

Source

Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia, Vol. 23, no. 1 (2006), p. 12-24

Publication year

2006

Keyword(s)

3D;  Astronomical datasets;  Cosmological simulations;  Data analysis methods;  Image processing techniques;  Models;  S2PLOT;  Surveys;  Three-dimensional visualisations;  Virtual reality;  Visual representations

Publisher

CSIRO Publishing

ISSN

1323-3580

Publisher URL

http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/AS05034

Copyright

Copyright © Astronomical Society of Australia 2005.

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