Visualizations

Below are some of my visualizations that have been featured in various locations around the web and beyond.

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ImmCellFIE

 

The CASC 2023 Brochure featured the ImmCellFIE tool, a collaboration with Nathan E. Lewis and his lab from UCSD, which enables users to map gene expression data to biological pathway models and provides visualizations to explore the output. You can read the STAR Protocoals paper published on ImmCellFIE here.

     Collaborators: Nathan E. Lewis, Kimberly Robasky, et al.


Segmentor

 

RENCI created a blog post on my work developing a tool to segment nuclei from 3D microscopy images of the brain, with Guorong Wu and Jason Stein at UNC. You can read the BMC Bioinformatics paper published on the Segmentor tool here.

     Collaborators: Guorong Wu, Jason Stein

The CASC 2020 Brochure also featured the Segmentor tool.

Tesselator

 

I worked with Professor Tim Chartier to devlop an interactive website to create tilings of a plane that help students learn about homogeneous coordinates and symmetries. The website was based on a similar interactive website from the Shoder Education Foundation.

     Collaborators: Tim Chartier


Touching puzzle

 

I worked with Professor Tim Chartier to devlop an interactive website for the touching puzzle, which he uses to help teach concepts related to computational complexity.

     Collaborators: Tim Chartier


Assist map

 

I developed a directed chord diagram to help Professor Tim Chartier's Cat Stats group at Davidson College visualize assists in basketball games. These visualizations became a feature via "Assist Map Mondays."

     Collaborators: Tim Chartier


Subdivision

 

I worked with Professor Tim Chartier from Davidson College to develop this interactive website to help teach concepts related to subdivision surfaces, often used in computer graphics. This work was used to help illustrated our article, "Pixar's Linear Algebra," published in IMAGE, the bulletin of the International Linear Algebra Society.

     Collaborators: Tim Chartier, Tabitha Peck


Spirograph

 

I worked with Professor Tim Chartier from Davidson College to develop this interactive website to help teach linear algebra concepts.

     Collaborators: Tim Chartier


Drawing on the power of the crowd for IBD insights

 

The CASC 2020 Brochure featured this visualization of the CCFA Explorer tool for investigating research topics created by patients with IBD.

     Collaborators: Charles Schmitt, Laura Christopherson, IBD Partners


Catalyzing advances in solar technology

 

The CASC 2015 Brochure featured this visualization displaying the difference between using relativistic and non-relativistic calculations when computing the charge distribution of a molecule containing Ruthenium, which is being investigated for applications in solar fuels. This visualization was also created using Voluminous.

     Collaborators: Jeff Tilson


Seeing particles with VPM

 

International Science Grid This Week featured the Visualize Particulate Matter (VPM) visual analytics tool I created along with collaborators from RENCI and the Institute for the Environment at UNC-Chapel Hill. This tool is designed to help used to understand particulate air pollution, with the ability to correlate real and simulated data.

     Collaborators: Uma Shankar, Alexis Zubrow, Richard Ross, Steve Chall, Jeff Heard


Cochlear implant simulation

 

The CASC 2010 Brochure featured this visualization of the simulation of cochlear implant electric potentials, from a collaboration with Charles Finley from Otolaryngology and Biomedical Engineering at UNC-Chapel Hill.

     Collaborators: Charles Finley, Mark Reed


Follow the flow

 

American Scientist did a feature on Alan Huber that included some images from our collaboration while he was adjunct professor with the Institute for the Environment at UNC-Chapel Hill. This work involved the visualization of simulations of air flow in downtown Manhattan.

     Collaborator: Alan Huber


Let's get visual

 

The Endeavors research and creativity magazine at UNC-Chapel Hill did a feature on visualization that included some of my work, including my dissertation work on Flexible Occlusion Rendering, a collaboration on cochlear implant visualization with Charles Finley from Otolaryngology and Biomedical Engineering at UNC-Chapel Hill, and the work with Alan Huber mentioned above.

     Collaborators: Charles Finley, Eric Knisley, Alan Huber, John P. Clarke, Russell M. Taylor II


A visual depiction of the influence of relativistic effects on the electronic structure of uranium

 

The TeraGrid '08 Visualization Gallery: The Beauty of Science featured this visualization, which displays the difference between using relativistic and non-relativistic calculations when computing the charge distribution of a Uranium atom. The Voluminous visualization tool I developed for creating these images can be downloaded here.

     Collaborators: Jeff Tilson, Eric Knisley


Matchmaking on the grid

 

International Science Grid This Week featured this image from the MatchMaker visualization tool I developed at RENCI for its image of the week. This tool displays live data of the progress of jobs being run on the Open Science Grid.

     Collaborators: Mats Rynge, John McGee


Mucus flow visualization

 

The website of the Computer Integrated Systems for Microscopy and Manipulation (CISMM) group at UNC-Chapel Hill featured this visualization of data extracted from a video of mucus flow on a human lung cell. It uses dense streamlines to show the direction of the mucus flow.

     Collaborators: Brian Eastwood, David Hill