Visual Similarity Analysis of Atmospheric Nucleation Data using Virtual Reality

At the IEEE VR conference this year, there was the first-ever workshop on Virtual and Augmented Reality for Molecular Science (VARMS). Molecular science is one branch of science where virtual reality has a lot of applications, and Logan Herche from the University of the Pacific talks about his presentation about “Visual Similarity Analysis of Atmospheric Nucleation Data using Virtual Reality.”

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Here’s the abstract from his presentation:

Nucleation processes are fundamental in many technological fields. However, the lack of effective, collaborative tools has slowed discovery in these fields. This paper outlines our work to visualize nucleation data in two ways to assist researchers seeking to learn more about nucleation processes. We created a similarity network to allow researchers to study similarities between nucleation structures easily. In addition, we developed tools to allow researchers to visualize aggregate molecular structures. To facilitate collaborative work over distance with low cost, these visualizations are web based, interactive, and can run on commodity machines. Though this paper focuses on similarity of molecular structures, this research can be applied to any network or graph visualization.

Logan mentions some of the other presentations that were interesting to him, including using sonification in order to help better visualize occluded information.

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