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Course Materials
The Visualization Cookbook is available in VisualizationCookbookUsingAVSExpress.pdf (3.5 MByte).
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Medical Data |
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The medical data represents images of a human head. An MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging) scanner was used to scan part of the head in 25 slices. Each slice is 3mm thick, so the total length of the head included in the scanned slices is 75 mm. There are 256 by 256 pixels per slice, and each pixel has a size of 1mm by 1mm. The brain has an acoustic neuroma, which is a benign tumour on the sheathing cells of the acoustic nerve.
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Meteorological Data |
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The meteorological data is global ocean data, scanned in 20 slices. Each slice has a length and width of 288 by 143 pixels. The data has five components, labelled u, v, w, temp, and mag. The u, v and w components give the three directions of the velocity of water flow in the oceans. The magnitude of the velocity is mag, and the temperature is temp. The data contains null values, which represent the land.
An interesting feature of the data is the Gulf Stream. This is a warm current of the North Atlantic Ocean, flowing in a generally northeastern direction from the Straits of Florida to the Grand Banks, east and south of Newfoundland. The term is often extended to include the North Atlantic Drift, which flows from the Grand Banks to the shores of Western Europe, Scandinavia, and the islands of the Arctic Ocean. The Gulf Stream is of great meteorological importance because of its moderating effects on the climate of Western Europe [7].
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Engineering Data |
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The engineering data is finite element data from an engineering simulation of a bridge and it's deformation under load.
The data is provided in the form of an Unstructured Cell Data or `UCD' file, a common format for simulations of this type, and represents half of a simple beam bridge which was generated by the DANFE finite element analysis package. The other half of the bridge is a mirror image of that provided by the data.
The UCD data file contains the structural description of the bridge in 2336 nodes which form 1404 hexahedral cells. These cells are split between 6 separate cell sets with different material types defining to which cell set each belongs.
The data file also contains node data information (3 values per node) describing the x, y and z components of the displacement of the bridge under load due to gravity.
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All Datasets |
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This is the combined data sets and workspaces of all three examples.
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