OzViz

Australian Visualisation and Virtual Reality Interest Group

Welcome to the homepage of the Australian Visualisation and Virtual Reality Interest Group, an informal collection of workers in the field. The group came together for the first time in late 2001 to hold a workshop, hosted by the Australian National University Supercomputer Facility Vizlab and APAC (Australian Partnership for Advanced Computing).

Mailing List

A mailing list has been set up and the attendees names have been added. You can subscribe and read more information about the list at http://groups.google.com/group/ozviz.

OzViz 2006 Workshop

The 2006 workshop is to be held in Perth hosted by the UWA. Go to the website for more info.

OzViz 2004 Workshop

The 2004 workshop was held in Brisbane hosted by QUT. Go to the website for more info.

OzViz 2003 Workshop

The 2003 workshop was sucessfully hosted by the University of Melbourne. They have a website for the event.

OzViz 2002 Workshop

(speakers - please forward files or links to your presentations to Drew)

Proceedings (3-4 December 2002):

Program - Day 1:

8:30 - Registration, refreshments.
9:00 - Welcome:
9:05 - Keynote: Greg McRae, MIT - Future Directions for Computing and Scientific Visualization -- Where we have been and where we could go"

Session 1 (9:45 - 11:05) Scientific Visualisation

9:45 Francis Clark,ACMC, UQld - Visualisation of microbial ecosystems.
10:05 Patrick Leung, VisLab & Physics, USyd - Determining the topology of magnetic fields in the Sun's corona.
10:25 Richard Albert, Geology & Geophysics, U Syd. - Computation & Visualization of Earth Processes via 3D Particle-in-cell Finite Element Analysis.
10:45 Nicole Bordes,VisLab, USyd.Isolation of Tumours and Blood Vessels in Human Liver..
11:05-11:30am - Morning tea; Registration continues

Session 2 (11:30am - 12:30pm) Computer Graphics

11:30 Stuart Ramsden, ANU.Computation & Visualization of Hyperbolic Tilings on Minimal Surfaces.
11:50 Abram Santilli, UWS - VideoCube: A High-Performance Graphics System for Clusters.
12:10 Dirk van der Knijff, U. Melb - Overview of the University of Melbourne Advanced Research Computing Computer Visualization Facility
12:30 Ben Simons, VisLab, USyd - Blinkenlights Animations, Berlin 2001, Paris 2002..
12:50 -2:00pm - light lunch (Room 321/322)

Session 3 (2:00 - 3:30pm) Virtual Reality & Environments

2:00 Matthew A Hutchins, CSIRO - Case Studies in Visualisation and Virtual Reality for Surgical Training.
2:20 Hugh Fisher, CS, ANU - Distributing 3D worlds over NFS.
2:40 Laz Kastanis, ACMC, UQld - Virtual Theatre Spaces.
3:00 Stephen Barrass, MIS - CSIRO.Tangible Stories.
3:20 - 3:45 pm - Afternoon tea

Session 4 (3:45 - 4:25pm) Information Visualisation

3:45 Kathryn Kasmarik, School of IT, USyd, - Foresighted Graph Layout in Software Visualisation.
4:05 Damian Merrick, School of IT, USyd, - Skeletal Animation for the Exploration of Graphs.

Visualisation Forum - APAC planning

4:25 moderated by G. McRae , B. Pailthorpe & J. O.callaghan. Questions, comments and directed discussion on Australian needs in Visualisation and Virtual Environments, to identify opportunities for community and APAC-2 planning.
4:55 - closing remarks.

5:00 - VisLab - 10-th anniversary dedication (VisLab-Physics, Rm 361)
6:00, for 6:30pm - Dinner at Women's College

Program - Day 2:

9:00 - coffee

Session 5 (9:30 - 10:50am) Scientific Visualisation, cont.d.

9:30 Rob Womersley, Maths, UNSW - Distributing points on a sphere.
9:50 Andrew Norton, Physics USyd - Visualizing particle spin in spacetime continua...
10:10 Damien Evans, Archaeological Computing Lab, USyd - Urban Form at Angkor from Radar Imaging.
10:30 Henry Gardiner, CS, ANU - Breaking the tyranny of the scenegraph.
10:50-11:20am - Morning tea

Session 6 (11:20am - 12:30) Visualisation hardware systems

11:20 Kelvin Cheng, Puolo & Eades, SIT, USyd.Direct - Interaction with Large-Scale Display Systems using Infrared Laser Tracking Devices..
11:40 Chris Willing,VisLab, USyd - P-Wall & Acccess Grid nodes.

Education & Culture

12:00 Pascal Vuylsteker, CS, ANU - The Internetworked Virtual Reality course at the ANU.
12:20 Alan Cholodenko, Art History, USyd - The Nutty Universe of Animation.
12:45 - Closing remarks
12:50 pm - light lunch and close (Room 321/322)

OzViz 2001 Workshop

Proceedings (12 December 2001):

9:00 AM Robin Stanton, ANU PVC - Opening
9:15 AM Bernard Pailthorpe - USyd - Sydney VisLab, R&D and education programs
9:30 AM Paul Bourke - Swinburne - Presenting Mars
9:45 AM Sean Hart - RMIT - VR based training projects at RMIT
10:00 AM Mark Knackstedt - ANU - Flow through porous media
10:15 AM Stephen Hyde - ANU - Investigating ordered networks
10:30 AM MORNING TEA
11:00 AM Stuart Ramsden - ANU - Diverse visualization techniques across the Mesoscale domain
11:15 AM Ajay Limaye - ANU - Use of VR in Art History
11:30 AM Stephen Barrass - CSIRO - Sound and sonification in VR
11:45 AM Paul Doornbusch - RMIT - TBA - audio related
12:00 PM Drew Whitehouse - ANU - ANUSF Vizlab: infrastructure and activities
12:15 PM Ben Simons - USyd - Data Vis via Houdini CHOP's
12:30 PM Henry Gardner - ANU - VR in the eScience Education Program
12:45 PM LUNCH
1:45 PM Nicole Bordes - USyd - High Resolution Displays
2:00 PM Darran Edmundson- ANU - Taking Visualization/VR to the Public
2:15 PM Milan Pahor - UNSW - Teaching spatial concepts and reducing cognitive load through animation and virtual reality modelling
2:30 PM Hugh Fisher - ANU - Adapting PC input devices for VR systems
2:45 PM Kevin Burrage, Sean Ivermee - UQ - ACMC overview & description of projects
3:00 PM Steve Jeffrey - UQ - Virtual Reef
3:15 PM Andy Dennison, Kevin Burrage - UQ - Psychosis 3d
3:30 PM AFTERNOON TEA
4:00 PM General discussion, future meetings, collaborations

Drew Whitehouse

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