Dr. Nicholas Polys, director of visualization for Advanced Research Computing (ARC), and the ARC computational visualization team have celebrated several successes over the past few months. Recently, the the Center for Human-Computer Interaction featured a summary of their work, including: 

  • The ARC team had a strong presence at the 2023 Special Interest Group in Computer Graphics, or SIGGRAPH,  conference. The team made 41 contributions to a timeline of computer graphics history, and Dr. Polys presented innovations in ‘Immersive Cartography,’ discussed upgrades to the X3D graphics standard, and explored ways to integrate the Metaverse with the World Wide Web. 
  • The Visionarium lab members organized a great showing at the ACM Web3D 2023 conference, held in October in San Sebastian, Spain. Ayat Mohammed also served as tutorial chair for the  conference.
  • The visualization team were instrumental collaborators in recent research into how fluid flow in brain tumors can be better undertsood and utilied in developing cancer treatments.
  • Polys has been elected a 3D Web Working Group Co-Chair in the Metaverse Standards Forum, a new industry alliance focused on interoperability.
  • Polys was invited to establish a new column for the IEEE Computer Graphics & Applications digital library department @theSource, which highlights innovations in the open source and open standards graphics community.

Read the full article from the Center for Human-Computer Interaction.