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This image shows the path of water through the karst limestone structure of a ground sample taken from south Florida. The photorealistic shading enhances the analysis of the stone porosity and the spatial arrangement of the flow traces.
Credit: Data courtesy of Michael Sukop and Sade Garcia, Florida International University and Kevin Cunningham, U.S. Geological Survey. Visualization: Carson Brownlee, Aaron Knoll and Paul Navratil, Texas Advanced Computing Center
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Visualization experts at TACC, the University of Utah, the University of Oregon, Intel and ParaView teamed up to build a visualization tool called GraviT that can render the massive datasets produced by some of the largest supercomputers in the world.
Credit: Ocean data provided by Mark Petersen, Los Alamos National Laboratory, using the Model for Prediction Across Scales-Ocean (MPAS-Ocean). The work of Mark Petersen, MPAS-Ocean, and ACME development are supported by the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science, Earth Modeling Program of the Office of Biological and Environmental Research.
This image shows turbulent structures that form as a fluid proceeds through a channel, such as air moving through a duct or water moving through a pipe. The efficiency of ray tracing allows for these structures to be rendered in simulations of massive scale.
Credit: Data courtesy of Myoungkyu Lee, Nicholas Malaya, Robert D. Moser; Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences, The University of Texas at Austin. Visualization by Carson Brownlee and Paul Navratil, Texas Advanced Computing Center
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This image shows the turbulent mixing of two fluids in a Richtmyer-Meshkov instability problem, where fluids of different densities are accelerated simultaneously. The photorealistic shading provided by ray tracing makes the turbulent structures and their interrelations more readily apparent. Ray tracing also enables realistic material interactions in the visualization, which provides the refractive and magnification effects visible in the panes of glass inserted through the turbulence data.
Credit: Data courtesy of Mark Duchaineau, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Visualization by Carson Brownlee and Paul Navratil, Texas Advanced Computing Center
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Rasterized (left) and ray-traced (right) versions of the same data, visualizing water flowing through a limestone karst from a South Florida ground core sample.
Credit: Data courtesy of Michael Sukop, Sade Garcia, Florida International University and Kevin Cunningham, United States Geological Survey. Visualization: Carson Brownlee, Aaron Knoll, Paul Navratil, Texas Advanced Computing
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