Resources
To support the world-class research being performed at the Cyprus Institute, the Visualization Lab provides advanced visualization resources and consulting services, which are accessible both in-person and remotely. These resources encompass both hardware and software.
Equipment
Stereoscopic 3D Parallel Rear-Projected Display System
JVC 3D Visualisation System
Oculus Rift Virtual Reality Headsets
Virtuix Omni Treadmill
Reflectance Transformation Imaging (RTI) Polynomial Texture Mapping (PTM) Dome
Large-Format Photography Unit
Software
Open-source or freely available software is preferred, but some commercial or other licensed tools are available and utilized, based on use case. Below is a non-exhaustive list of some of the software packages and tools recently used.
Scientific Analysis/Visualization
- MatLab
- ParaView
- Visit
- Mathematica
Information Analysis/Visualization
- Processing Programming Environment
- Virtual Director (NCSA AVL) Platform – Interactive Remote Collaboration
Virtual Reality, 3D Graphics/Simulation
- Unity
- VRML
- X3D
Development, Libraries, Languages
- VTK
- OpenGL
- Anaconda
Video Processing/Playback
- Stereoscopic 3DTV
- Adobe Creative Suite