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Visualization Wall

Large-format stereo projection venues can provide significant productivity and insight benefits, especially for applications where structure, scale, or spatial patterns are important.  Passive stereo solutions provide the important perceptual cue of depth by way of "binocular disparity" using lightweight polarized glasses.  A wide range of desktop visual analytic software can be rendered in stereo using these systems.  Modern projection displays enable high-resolution, large format (wall-size) views for these applications.

In early spring of 2007, a Viz3D system was purchased for the Advanced Research Computing Conference Room and Lab located in Room 119 of the Andrews Information Systems Building.  The resolution of this wall-size stereo display is 1440x1050, which provides excellent brightness and image quality for presentations and research. 

The system uses a dual-boot Linux and Windows machine with the full visual computing software stack installed.  The machine has 2 dual-core 3.2 Ghz CPUs with hyper-threading and 4 Gig RAM, providing it with plenty of horsepower for large data sets.  System logins will be authenticated using the System X filesystem.


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