Mission

The mission of the VIS.I.T lab activities in the field of scientific visualization is to provide tools and techniques for analysing and visualizing complex scientific data. Thanks to the graphics workstations and other equipment in the lab, visualization tools can be used by researchers of academic community and users in order to view results of scientific calculations using high resolution and three-dimensional solid modelling.

Applications

Scientific visualization is very useful for graphic exploration of complex data sets. Users and researchers have the capability to better comprehend visual patterns and dynamical relationships of great complexity thanks to the use of visualization tools for viewing, analysing and understanding scientific data. At the VIS.I.T Lab modeling, design, and display software are available. Moreover researchers and users can also develop their own visualization methods especially suited to their data.
Fields in which scientific visualization is applied by now at the Vis.I.T Lab are:

  • Astronomy
  • Chemistry
  • GIS (Geographic Information Systems)
  • Landscape analysis
  • Meteo Climatology
  • Physics

Partnerships

University of Bologna:

  • Fac. Chimica Industriale
  • Dept. Scienze della Terra e Geoambientali
  • Dept. Fisica - ADGB, Scienze Ambientali, sede di Ravenna

University di Parma: Dept. Chimica
University di Firenze: Dept. Chimica-Fisica
Osservatorio Astronomico di Padova
Osservatorio Astrofisico di Catania
Oxford University
CIRB (Centro Interdisciplinare per la ricerca Biotecnologia)
INFM
SISSA
CNR:

  • Istituto di Radioastronomia - IRA/BO
  • Istituto di Scienze dell'Atmosfera e dell'Oceano - ISAO/BO
  • Istituto di Fisica Cosmica - IFCTR/MI

ARPA-SMR
ICTP - International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, PWC (Physics of Weather and Climate Group)

Current projects

AstroMD: A visualization package with the specific object of supporting visualization and analysis of astrophysical three dimensional structures (see also http://www.cineca.it/astromd/index.html) (Astronomy)
CosmoLab: A tool for Stereographic Visualization and analysis of Astrophysical Data (Astronomy)
Dimoda: An astronomy educational instrument based on Virtual Reality (Astronomy)
Liquid Crystal: A virtual navigation into a liquid crystal model. The goal of the project is to develop a "virtual navigation system" devoted to the visualization of dense molecular systems (Chemistry)
Molecola: Development of a procedure for the visualization of molecular dynamics and post-production movies (Chemistry)
Lattice: Simulation of a lattice model of a liquid Crystal (Labwohl/Lasher model) (Chemistry)
FlyGis: a project devoted to extend current GIS potentiality. The project is currently under definition (GIS)
Promise: Predictability and variability of monsoons, and the agricultural and hydrological impacts of climate change (Meteo Climatology)
Simulation of a Tornado: simulation of a real event that, on 20th of May 1977, generated a sequence of 16 tornados in Oklahoma (Meteo Climatology)
Surface Oceanic Temperature between 1980 and 1996: Visualization of temperature of Earth seas surface (SST). Made as part of the GANES Project (Meteo Climatology)
Level waves in the Mediterraneo sea: Visualization of date produced with the Wave Model (WAM)
Weather Forecast (Meteo Climatology)
Weather Forecast (Meteo Climatology)
ICE 10 crystal: Simulation of the physical behaviour of an ICE 10 crystal (Physics)

Concluded projects
http://www.cineca.it/HPSystems/Vis.I.T/Researches/sv_archive.html



Further Information: Maura Melotti - CINECA