Enhancing Web - Based Three - Dimensional Visualization

Kwame Osei – Wusu Enhancing Web-Based Three-Dimensional Visualization of Scientific Data The recent initiative to encourage more effective communication among researchers, educational institutions, government bodies, and industries involved in the nanotechnology field has inspired major growth within the scientific visualization community. Scientific visualization provides an effective means to facilitate the display of both large and multi-dimensional data sets from experimental and computational research. Although scientific data sets often exhibit a definitive pattern to the researching scientists, the same data sets are often a mystery to their collaborative partners. To help clear up some of these mysteries, scientific visualization has developed several data-rendering programs that allow individuals to use both visual and perceptive cues to analyze data. Effective visualization has essentially become a requirement within the collaborative scientific community due to the overwhelming need to enable other scientists to understand and interpret unfamiliar data sets without actual having to interact with the data itself. Creating better communication for collaborating scientists often focuses on three major parts; enhancing visualization rendering, creating stronger perception cues, and developing a better web-based interactive visualization system. The research conducted was used in an effort to establish a simplistic communication system for collaborating scientists involved in the examination and visualization of research data produced by several of Purdue's nanotechnology-affiliated research groups. It was imperative that the data collected from the groups be unfamiliar and relatively difficult to interpret directly.