Visualization Research at Grumman's Computer Applications Laboratory (CAL) 901807
A Computer Applications Laboratory (CAL) has been established at Grumman that is primarily concerned with the visualization of large sets of scientific data. The laboratory is a color graphics workstation environment and communications facility that allows scientists and engineers to quickly process and visualize large quantities of discrete data generated by an experiment or by a supercomputer numerical simulation. The graphical visualization capabilities are supported by in-house research into software development tailored to specific workstation hardware graphics. The CAL facility also serves as a site to the Numerical Aerodynamic Simulation (NAS) facility at NASA's Ames Research Center (ARC) allowing scientists, whose computer requirements involve massive physical memory, to access the CRAY-2. This paper describes the hardware and communications composition of the laboratory and its ongoing software graphics and scientific visualization research, with several examples of its graphical output and visualization capabilities.
Citation: Siclari, M., Federico, P., and Mandel, M., "Visualization Research at Grumman's Computer Applications Laboratory (CAL)," SAE Technical Paper 901807, 1990, https://doi.org/10.4271/901807. Download Citation
Author(s):
Michael J. Siclari, Paul Federico, Marc Mandel
Affiliated:
Grumman Data Systems
Pages: 18
Event:
Aerospace Technology Conference and Exposition
ISSN:
0148-7191
e-ISSN:
2688-3627
Related Topics:
Imaging and visualization
Research and development
Computer software and hardware
Simulation and modeling
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