John Wise's Award Winning Visualizations of the First Stars are Stunning!

Thursday, August 29, 2013

John Wise's Award Winning Visualizations of the First Stars are Stunning!!

 

Dr. John Wise (Center for Relativistic Astrophysics and School of Physics), in conjunction with his collaborators, won the Best Visualization Prize in the XSEDE13 conference that showcases a diverse collection of computational driven sciences made possible by the NSF XSEDE computing resource. Their winning visualization depicts simulated data of the birth and death of the first stars in the universe and was made with the open-source analysis toolkit, yt.

Check out the movie at:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tTilF_hbrHE