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| Using Creative Processes to Mine Scientific Data |
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posted by Editor
on Thursday November 19, @06:02PM
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This video from the Creativity and Technology (CaT) conference in New York this summer has an impressive demo of the AlloSphere at UCSB, an "instrument" for visualizing, hearing and exploring complex multi-dimensional data. The AlloSphere merges composed sounds and high resolution 3D visualizations of scientific data in an immersive space that is three stories tall (the demo also got a lot of attention earlier in the year at the TeD conference). While room-size CAVEs have existed since the early 1990's, earlier systems usually depended on some kind of head-mounted device for users to visualize data and hear sounds, which inhibited the interactive sensation. The AlloSphere is designed to provide a more neutral space, employing an echo-free chamber for representing the sounds of interaction. Construction of the system has not yet been completed, but the demo reel shows how its design takes interaction with data to a new level, vividly representing such behavior as chemical activity inside of the brain and the spin of electrons. The AlloSphere concept of artistically integrated, multi-sensory input still has to prove whether it will actually help enable researchers achieve new scientific breakthroughs, but if nothing else, it sure looks like a great way to perceive real-world phenomena.
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