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Future Directions in Astronomy Visualization

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 March 2013

Christopher J. Fluke ,
Paul D. Bourke  and
David O'Donovan
Christopher J. Fluke*
Affiliation:
Centre for Astrophysics & Supercomputing, Swinburne University of Technology, Hawthorn VIC 3122, Australia
Paul D. Bourke
Affiliation:
Centre for Astrophysics & Supercomputing, Swinburne University of Technology, Hawthorn VIC 3122, Australia
David O'Donovan
Affiliation:
Centre for Astrophysics & Supercomputing, Swinburne University of Technology, Hawthorn VIC 3122, Australia
*
BCorresponding authors: Email: cfluke@swin.edu.au
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Abstract

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Despite the large budgets spent annually on astronomical research equipment such as telescopes, instruments, and supercomputers, the general trend is to analyze and view the resulting datasets using small, two-dimensional displays. We report here on alternative advanced image displays, with an emphasis on displays that we have constructed, including stereoscopic projection, multiple projector tiled displays, and a digital dome. These displays can provide astronomers with new ways of exploring the terabyte and petabyte datasets that are now regularly being produced from all-sky surveys, high-resolution computer simulations, and Virtual Observatory projects. We also present a summary of the Advanced Image Displays for Astronomy (AIDA) survey which we conducted from 2005 March–May, in order to raise some issues pertinent to the current and future level of use of advanced image displays.

Keywords

methods: data analysistechniques: image processingastronomical data bases: miscellaneous
Type
Research Article
Information
Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia , Volume 23 , Issue 1 , 2006 , pp. 12 - 24
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of Australia 2006

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