Category Archives: Research

Overview RENCI helped Dr. Andres Villaveces (UNC department of Epidemiology and the Injury Prevention Research Center) to show the impacts of injury intervention techniques on the prevention and control of injuries and violence, especially traffic, alcohol, and firearm-related injuries and violence. The first visualization shows the ratio of injury events over a time line at different […]

Overview This project uses Immersive Media’s embedded flash player to enable users to view 360-degree videos hosted on a RENCI Web server. It is part of the RENCI Immersive Video project, which uses a high-definition, 360-degree video system to capture data that can be used to access disaster scenes and provide situational awareness. The user […]

Overview iBiblio is one of the largest collections of information avaialble on the Internet and includes literature, art, music, software, history and more. This visualization provides a geocentric and spatial understanding of iBiblio traffic. Using the color highlight feature makes it easy to see where traffic from several sites originates and easy to compare clusters […]

Overview Paul Jones, the director of the iBiblio project at UNC Chapel Hill, gave RENCI his data on people querying the iBiblio collections and said “be creative.” iBiblio is one of the largest collections of information avaialble on the Internet and includes literature, art, music, software, history and more. Jones wanted to visualize the way […]

Overview These renderings come from RENCI Senior Visualization Researcher David Borland’s Ph.D. thesis in the UNC Chapel Hill computer science department, with advisor Russell M. Taylor II and collaborator John P. Clarke (UNC radiology department, School of Medicine). They use a technique called Flexible Occlusion Rendering (FOR), an extension to standard volume rendering techniques, which can […]

Overview This visualization represents characteristics of high-growth companies in North Carolina, broken down by county. The characteristics examined include county-wide total employment, total business establishments, expansion in employment, expansion in employment by high-growth companies, distribution of high-growth companies and distribution of employees working in high growth companies. The data sets were supplied by the High-Growth […]

Overview Cochlear implants are devices used to give hearing to the deaf. A receiver on the exterior of the skull collects sound and passes electric impulses to the implant, which generates electric impulse that stimulate nerve cells in the inner ear. This project uses improved computer simulation and visualization methods to develop cochlear implants that […]

Overview In the Emergency Operations Center of the future, situational awareness will be of primary importance. RENCI is building a real-time collaborative virtual environment for large images and maps, tentatively called The Big Board (a reference to the film Dr. Strangelove). Users create a virtual conference room on top of a map and annotate it […]

Overview RENCI collaborated with Dr. Steve Marshall (UNC School of Public Health) to gain better insight into ACL (anterior cruciate ligament) knee injuries. RENCI’s high-resolution visualization technology was used to show the movement of the knee during jumping. Using the RENCI visualization wall, Marshall was able to view his data as pictures of the jumping motion […]

Overview The Docuverse is a method of displaying an entire digital library on a screen at once. The Docuverse takes a digital library of HTML documents and a set of queries and creates a “universe” around these queries. Each “galaxy” corresponds to a library query. Each “star” corresponds to a document. The most relevant documents […]