“Solar Superstorms – Visualization Excerpts” by Cox
Conference:
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Title:
- Solar Superstorms - Visualization Excerpts
Director(s):
Description:
This full-dome production features visualizations originating from hundreds of terabytes of scientific supercomputer data, which reveal the sun’s dynamic processes. Viewers travel beneath the solar surface through the magnetically active convection zone, observe an emerging coronal mass ejection, and finally witness the earth’s magnetosphere deflecting the resultant electromagnetic storm.
Additional Contributors:
Visualization by Advanced Visualization Lab National Center for Supercomputing Applications, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: Thomas Lucas Productions Spitz Creative Media
Narration: Benedict Cumberbatch
Funded in part by National Science Foundation Award: ACI-1445176 The Centrality
of Advanced Digitally Enabled Science: CADENS
Visualization Producer, Designer: Donna Cox
Visualization Designer, Compositing: Robert Patterson
Research Programmer, Pre-vis: Stuart Levy
Visualization Scene Development: AJ Christensen
Visualization Programmer: Kalina Borkiewicz
Post Production, Visualization: Jeff Carpenter
Visualization Toolkit: Matt Turk
Magneto-Convection Emerging Flux: Robert Stein, Åke Nordlund