AVS '94 Advance Proceedings Come Join the Revolution!!! The 3rd Annual International AVS Users Conference and Exhibition May 2-4, 1994 Boston, Massachusetts Sheraton Boston Hotel and Towers NOTE: Registration and hotel forms are not included with the electronic distribution. Call J.R. Schuman Associates 617-891-8406 to register, request the appropriate forms, or to obtain a hard copy of the Advance Program. All lectures, panels, and workshops are listed in this announcement. The 1994 International AVS Users Conference is presented by Advanced Visual Systems Inc. and by the International AVS Center, a program of MCNC, in cooperation with the AVS Consortium. The AVS Consortium consists of the sponsors and affiliates of the International AVS Center. AVS Consortium Sponsors include Advanced Visual Systems Inc., Digital Equipment Corporation, Hewlett-Packard Company, IBM, Kubota Computer Inc., Kubota Pacific Computer Inc., and SUN Microsystems Inc. AVS Consortium Affiliates include Mobil Oil Corporation, and OKI Electric Industry Co., Ltd. The 1994 Conference provides an international forum for AVS and Uniras users and developers to share information and exchange ideas. Advanced Visual Systems Inc. recently acquired Uniras, a Denmark- based supplier of visual data analysis and presentation graphics software and software development tools for scientists, engineers and programmers. The Conference and exhibition have been expanded this year to include the users of Uniras products. The Conference features technology-oriented exhibitions, lectures, panels, training sessions, a poster session and a video theater. Users will present examples and case studies on the use of AVS and Uniras products in a variety of application areas. PROCEEDINGS Advanced Visual Systems Inc. publishes a proceedings volume for distribution free of charge to Conference registrants. Additional copies of the proceedings may be purchased separately through Advanced Visual Systems Inc. after the Conference. COME JOIN THE REVOLUTION The Boston area has seen many revolutionary advances in computers and graphics hardware and software, from the X-Window Consortium's work at MIT, to advances in PC's, minicomputers, workstations and now massively-parallel supercomputers. At Advanced Visual Systems and UNIRAS, our own contributions include one of the earliest developments in raster graphics technology by Mikael Jern, founder of UNIRAS, while working on inkjet printers for Applicon in Massachusetts. And of course, the contributions of Dave Kamins, and the Massachusetts-based AVS development staff who brought us the AVS product line. As AVS users we work at the leading edge of a variety of fast- moving technology trends which, with no exaggeration, can be called a revolution: Ever increasing desktop power Advanced visualization techniques to aid scientific discovery and industrial productivity Configurable, extensible end-user applications using object- oriented visual programming techniques Rapid application prototyping and development; and On-line, network-wide collaboration between AVS users through the International AVS Center (IAC) This year Boston will be the site of a different type of revolution. Advanced Visual Systems Inc. and the AVS product have enjoyed tremendous growth in the past year. The user base has expanded rapidly, and AVS Inc. acquired Jaguar Software and Uniras in 1993. AVS has continued to be a favorite for visualization in the scientific community, and has taken on a revolutionary role as a premiere application development framework for technical software developers. With new AVS visualization and application development framework products just around the corner, along with a new family of offerings resulting from the Uniras acquisition, the changes are ... well revolutionary! The International AVS Center has also had a great year. With more than 500 modules available on the FTP site and thousands of users taking advantage of the AVS modules, the AVS Network News magazine, and the email hotline, the IAC is one of the industry's most unique and standout successes. Thanks to all of you, the conference has grown from a small gathering in 1992 at MCNC in Research Triangle Park, NC to one of the richest conferences available today on graphics, visualization and application development. Hundreds of attendees are expected this year from around the world. Please join us in Boston in May to hear about all the exciting news. As pioneers, we inevitably become evangelists, trying to get our colleagues and co-workers involved - trying to get them to - Come Join the Revolution, David T. Bennett Paul J. Esdale IAC Director, MCNC Advanced Visual Systems Inc. PROGRAM CHAIRS David Bennett International AVS Center, MCNC Research Triangle Park, NC (919) 248-1182 Paul Esdale Advanced Visual Systems Inc. Waltham, MA (617) 890-4300 EXHIBITION CHAIR Paul Esdale Advanced Visual Systems, Inc. Waltham, MA (617) 890-4300 VIDEO THEATER CHAIR David T. Bennett Information Technology Division, MCNC Research Triangle Park, NC (919) 248-1182 POSTER SESSION CHAIR Janet L. Jenson U.S. Army - AERDEC Aberdeen Proving Grounds, MD (410) 671-5836 TRACK CHAIRS AVS AND UNIRAS PRODUCTS AND TECHNOLOGY TRACK CHAIR David Kamins Advanced Visual Systems Inc. Waltham, MA (617) 890-4300 DEVELOPING APPLICATIONS WITH AVS INC. PRODUCTS TRACK CHAIR Tim Hayes Landmark Graphics Houston, TX (713) 560-1071 USERS EXAMPLES AND CASE STUDIES TRACK CHAIRS Medical Track Marc Kessler University of Michigan Medical School Ann Arbor, MI (313) 936-4309 Imaging Processing and Remote Sensing Track Gudrun Klinker Digital Equipment Corporation Cambridge, MA (617) 621-6631 Environmental/Earth Sciences Track Theresa Rhyne Martin Marietta Technical Services - U.S. EPA Research Triangle Park, NC (919) 541-0207 Wes Bethel Lawrence Berkeley Laboratories Berkeley, CA (510) 487-7353 Oil and Gas Exploration and Production Track Michael Ray and Annette Walsh Mobil Research & Development Corporation Dallas, TX (214) 851-8510 Engineering Analysis Track Larry Schoof Sandia National Laboratories Albuquerque, NM (505) 844-5156 Computational Fluid Dynamics Track Mike Rangitsch Dow Chemical Plaquemine, LA (504) 389-1752 Aerospace/Astrophysics Track Arsi Vaziri NASA Ames Research Center Numerical Aerodynamic Simulation Facility Moffett Field, CA (415) 604-4523 General Science Track Douglas A. Smith DASGroup Toledo, OH (419) 537-2116 PANELS AND PANEL LEADERS Animation and Video Using AVS Upul R. Obeysekare Naval Research Laboratory Washington, DC (202) 767-3884 AVS in Medicine Loren Buhle University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine Philadelphia, PA (215) 662-3084 AVS Wizards Howard Watkins Intera Information Technologies Ltd. Abingdon, UK (44) 235559595 Education Using AVS Ken Flurchick MCNC Research Triangle Park, NC (919) 248-1121 Uniras and AVS Directions Val Schmidt AVS/Uniras Copenhagen, Denmark (45) 31-67-22-88 Volume Visualization Larry Gelberg Advanced Visual Systems, Inc. Waltham, MA (617) 890-4300 PROGRAM CONTENT There will be three main tracks presented at the conference along with several panels, training sessions, a poster session, a video theater and an exhibition area. The three tracks are: AVS and Uniras Products and Technology Developing Applications with AVS Inc. Products Users Examples and Case Studies The AVS and Uniras Products and Technology Track will be presented by the AVS Inc. staff and by advanced users of AVS and Uniras products. This track will include a wealth of information on new products, porting information, and a look at future product directions. The Developing Applications with AVS Inc. Products Track will be comprised of presentations by users describing how they have developed applications based on AVS Inc. products. The Users Examples and Case Studies Track consists of discipline- specific presentations by users showing examples of the use of AVS Inc.products in a variety of application areas including: Medical Applications Image Processing and Remote Sensing Environmental/Earth Sciences Oil and Gas Exploration and Production Engineering Analysis Computational Fluid Dynamics Aerospace/Astrophysics General Science (i.e. Physics, Chemistry) TRAINING SESSIONS Three hands-on courses will be offered at the Conference by the two most experienced AVS training organizations available. At last year's Conference users expressed the need for more advanced training, and at AVS '94 we'll deliver! IMPORTING DATA INTO AVS - May 1 (morning) This 2.5 hour workshop will provide an introduction to techniques for converting data into AVS data types (with an emphasis on the field and ucd formats). Topics covered will include: a brief review of the AVS field and ucd data types, ASCII description files, writing programs that convert user data to AVS format files, AVS data input modules, and the AVS Data Interchange Application (ADIA). The other major way to import data - writing modules - will be covered in the second training session. The format will include lecture and lab exercises. The session is intended for users who have experience with AVS, but have not yet learned how to convert their data into one of the AVS data formats. Participants should have a basic knowledge of UNIX, the X Window System, C or FORTRAN, and AVS (how to use the Network Editor and Geometry Viewer Subsystems). Contact avs@ncsc.org for details on this session. WRITING AVS MODULES - May 3, 4 (mornings) This 2.5 hour workshop will provide an introduction to writing AVS modules including module components, types of modules (subroutine and coroutine), and the module generator. Examples and lab exercises will be written in C. The workshop will concentrate on subroutine modules, and plans include 1.5 hours of lab time using the workstations provided by AVS Inc. The workshop is intended for AVS users who do not have significant experience writing modules. Participants should have a basic knowledge of UNIX, the X Window System, C, and AVS. Contact avs@ncsc.org for details on this session. AVS SPECIAL TOPICS - TIPS AND TRICKS - May 1, 2, 3 (afternoons) The 2.5 hour sessions for AVS users who want to advance their skills and become power-users. Techniques will be taught to enhance the user's skills in areas such as writing CLI scripts, manipulating AVS geometries, memory management and working with upstream data. Contact John Methot at Acme Consulting (jmethot@acmecon.com) for details on this session. Note that this training session requires basic AVS knowledge as a prerequisite. Please see the Conference Registration Form for Training Session enrollment details. There is a nominal $75 charge for each course (seating limited). PANELS You'll have the opportunity to express your ideas and share them with leaders in many areas of technology. By coming to AVS '94, you'll contribute to future product directions and enhance the usage of technology in your field. Panelists provide informative discussion and debate on product and technology trends and viewpoints in the industry They provide a forum for discussion among users and industry experts. Animation and Video Using AVS AVS in Medicine AVS Wizards Education Using AVS Uniras and AVS Directions Volume Visualization EXHIBITION Not only will AVS and Uniras products be shown and discussed at AVS '94, several of AVS Inc.'s most exciting business partners will display their products in the exhibition area. Come and learn how AVS operates on a variety of hardware platforms, see other software products that interface to AVS and Uniras products, and see for yourself some of the applications developed with AVS and Uniras. The exhibition features technology-sharing demonstrations by AVS Consortium members and other AVS product-related vendors and users. The exhibition is held: Monday, May 2 1:00 pm to 6:00 pm Tuesday, May 2 10:00 am to Noon, and 1:00 to 5:00 pm Wednesday, May 4 10:00 am to Noon, and 1:00 to 3:00 pm Exhibition admission is included as part of the AVS '94 registration fee. Exhibition-only registration will be available at the conference. For additional Exhibitor information and a copy of the exhibitor prospectus, contact Paul Esdale at Advanced Visual Systems Inc. (617) 890-4300, email paule@avs.com. RECEPTION Following the technical sessions and exhibitions on Monday, May 2, there is an evening reception. The reception provides the opportunity to get together and socialize with fellow AVS and Uniras users, AVS Consortium members, the IAC staff and AVS Inc. staff. At last year's Conference, the evening reception and video theater was very popular with attendees. This year's reception in Boston should be a conference highlight! AVS VIDEO REVIEW THEATER AVS user videos from around the world are combined to create a review of the most interesting work in every discipline. The AVS video review dramatically demonstrates how AVS is being used in practice. There will be a special Awards Presentation during intermission. To contribute work for this showing, contact David Bennett at MCNC (919)-248-1182, email avs@ncsc.org. POSTER SESSION Posters from all around the world representing the use of AVS and Uniras products will be prominently displayed at the Conference, providing another way for users to share information and educate colleagues on use of technology in their organizations. If you would like to contribute a poster please contact Janet Jenson at the Naval Research Laboratory (410) 671-5836, email jljensen@cbdcom.apgea.army.mil. REGISTRATION Your registration fee for the 1994 AVS User Group Conference includes all official program activities, materials, coffee breaks, lunch on Monday and Tuesday, a copy of the Conference Proceedings, entrance to the AVS Video Review Theater and reception on Monday evening, and entrance to the Exhibition Hall. ADVANCE CONFERENCE REGISTRATION The Conference Registration Form, or a copy, must be submitted with full payment in order to reserve your space at the Conference. Advance registrations, postmarked on or before March 18, 1994, will receive a $100 discount. Registrations received after March 18 will register at the regular rate. Registrations will only be accepted by mail or fax to J.R. Schuman Associates prior to April 22. After April 22, all registrations must be completed on-site at the Sheraton Boston. No partial Conference registrations are being offered (except Exhibition-only at On-Site Registration). These are available from J.R. Schuman Associates 617-891-8406. ON-SITE REGISTRATION Hours for On-Site Registration at the Sheraton Boston are as follows: Sunday May 1 3:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. Monday May 2 7:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. Tuesday May 3 7:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. On-Site registrants may be put on waiting lists for training sessions. REGISTRATION DISCOUNTS / PROCEDURES Please refer to the Conference Registration Form on page x for specific fees and discounts. To qualify for a User Group Member Discount, you must be a current member of the AVS User Group PRIOR to April 22, 1994. If you would like to become a member and receive the automatic $50.00 discount for the Conference please contact Dave Bennett at the IAC at (919) 248-1182, email davidb@ncsc.org prior to April 22, 1994. STUDENT DISCOUNT To qualify for a student discount, a registrant must submit a copy of a current ACM or IEEE student membership card or a copy of a current student identification card with the Registration Form. GOVERNMENT DISCOUNT: To qualify for a government discount, a registrant must submit a copy of a current government identification card with the Registration Form. TRAINING SESSIONS Space at the training sessions is limited and subject to availability. Please see Conference Registration Form for enrollment details and be sure to add the corresponding fees to your registration fee total. HOTEL RESERVATIONS The 1994 AVS User Group Conference will be held at the Sheraton Hotel & Towers located in Boston's historic Back Bay. The Sheraton is adjacent to the Prudential Center and conveniently located just 3 miles from Logan International Airport. The Hotel offers extensive services including a year-round Olympic-size indoor/outdoor pool, universal fitness health center and a variety of excellent restaurants and entertainment. TO RESERVE A ROOM AT THE SHERATON Please complete the attached Hotel Registration Form (not included) and send it along with a one night deposit DIRECTLY to the Sheraton Boston by mail or fax (see Registration Form for Sheraton address and fax number.) These are available from J.R. Schuman Associates 617-891-8406. Air Travel: Boston's Logan International Airport is serviced by most major airlines. Local Ground Transportation: Taxi service from Logan is readily available, with fares to the Sheraton ranging from $8 to $20 depending on traffic. Designated pick up areas are located outside baggage claim in each airline terminal. Public transportation in Boston (MBTA) is convenient and fast, linking the Airport to all sections of the city via the Blue Line. A free shuttle bus connects all airline terminals. Standard local fare is $. 85. For more specific route information call 617-722-3200. Weather: Average high temperature in May is 68 F. Average low temperature in May is 50 F. For up-to-date local weather call (617) 936-1234. Suggested Dress: Casual business attire is suggested for the conference. Suits and ties are not required. QUESTIONS: Conference Related J.R. Schuman Associates 617-891-8406 User Group Membership or Technical / Program Related Dave Bennett 919-248-1182, email avs@ncsc.org AVS Video Review Theater Dave Bennett 919-248-1182, email avs@ncsc.org Poster Session Related Janet Jenson (410) 671-5836, email jljensen@cbdcom.apgea.army.mil Exhibition or Training Related Paul Esdale 617-890-4300 email paule@avs.com PROGRAM FOR AVS '94 DEVELOPING APPLICATIONS WITH AVS INC. PRODUCTS TRACK AVStool: An Interface to the AVS Command Line Interpreter. 11 - 11:45 a.m. Monday With AVStool, users can write Perl functions that can be combined to perform repetitive or complex tasks. Bruce S. Duncan The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA The Spline Animator: Smooth Camera Motion for AVS Animation. 1 - 1:45 p.m. Monday This paper discusses the theory, implementation and use of the module, along with examples of simple flybys and flight paths generated by the module. Mitch Roth Arctic Region Supercomputing Center Fairbanks, AK AVS Interface Routines. 2 - 2:45 p.m. Monday AVSI_routines establish an easy interface between FORTRAN and C application programs and the majority of the 1D, 2D, 3D and 4D visualization techniques of AVS. Jan Kraak, University of Groningen The Netherlands AVSFOOL: A Very Simple Field Operation Oriented Language. 3 - 3:45 p.m. Monday Development of a module forming an environment (editor, interpreter and i/o handler) for algebraic manipulations. Krzysztof (Chris) S. Nowinski Warsaw University Warsaw, Poland Developing Interactive Parallel Programs on IBM SP-1 within AVS Framework. 4 - 4:45 p.m. Monday Initial work in developing interactive parallel programs on an IBM SP-1 within AVS to allow real-time control of modeling system and dynamically steering of model parameters. Gang Cheng Northeast Parallel Architectures Center Syracuse, NY My Experiences Writing AVS Modules. 9 - 9:45 a.m. Tuesday Topics discussed include: motivation for writing modules; general principles; design and development considerations; and strategies for interfacing with existing software. Evelyn L. Wright U.S. Geological Survey Woods Hole, MA C++ Module Generator For AVS. 10 - 10:45 a.m. Tuesday The object-oriented C++ CPPMod Generator extends the AVS Module Generator and generates the object-oriented modules in C++ language for developing new modules. T. Ming Jiang Arctic Region Supercomputing Center Fairbanks, AK Technical Overview of UAMGUIDES: Urban Airshed Model with a Graphical User Interface and Decision Support 11 - 11:45 a.m. Tuesday One of the key functions of the graphical user interface is to streamline the sometimes daunting task of preparing the large amount of input data using the X-Window/Motif Toolkits and AVS in a distributed UNIX environment consisting of a remote server (Cray Y-MP) and various local workstations. K. Eng Pua MCNC Research Triangle Park, NC An Intelligent Assistant for Creating Data Flow Visualization Networks. 1 - 1:45 p.m. Tuesday An approach to assisting end-users in doing interactive visualization by embedding the knowledge of visualization experts into an intelligent system. Peter Kochevar San Diego Supercomputer Center San Diego, CA Coroutine Synchronization in AVS. 2 - 2:45 p.m. Tuesday A token-based handshaking scheme which can be instantiated at runtime between any subgroups of modules and coroutines, allowing users to define control flow in the network, as well as data flow. Gudrun J. Klinker Digital Equipment Corporation Cambridge, MA An Experiment to build "Wrap Around" GUI for Scientific Models using AVS. 3 - 3:45 p.m. Tuesday Testing and stretching AVS' ability to build GUI's wrapping around an environmental model - successes and failures during this development. Jeff Wang MCNC Research Triangle Park, NC Developing the Aurora Scientific Visualization Database to work with AVS. 9 - 9:45 a.m. Wednesday The Aurora Dataserver provides data models and query mechanisms for both the fine grain and coarse grain data, as well as methods for convenient memory representations of this data. Mike Achenbach XIDAK, Inc. Palo Alto, CA WebWeaver - A Better "Field To Mesh" Module. 10 - 10:45 a.m. Wednesday Minimizing the polygons in extremely dense tessellations to achieving real time interaction. Srinivas R. Manapragada Landmark Graphics Corporation Houston, TX An Integrated Space and Atmospheric Science System Application of AVS. 11 - 11:45 a.m. Wednesday A description of SAVS and its components, followed by several applications based on generic research interests in interplanetary and magnetospheric physics (IMP/ISTP), active experiments in space (CRRES), and mission planning focused on the Earth's thermospheric, ionospheric and mesospheric domains (TIMED). E. P. Szuszczewicz Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) McLean, VA Make your AVS Pictures Look Great. 1 - 1:45 p.m. Wednesday These tips will be helpful to anyone using AVS for geometric rendering. Michael Pique The Scripps Research Institute La Jolla, CA 92037 AVS AND UNIRAS PRODUCTS AND TECHNOLOGY TRACK AVS6 - System Overview 11 - 11:45 a.m. Monday An overview of the system architecture and component structure of the upcoming major release of the Application Visualization System. Ham Lord Advanced Visual Systems Inc. Waltham, MA AVS6 - Framework Architecture 1 - 1:45 p.m. Monday A detailed presentation of the low-level system architecture of AVS6, focusing on the definition and manipulation of data objects and the functional relationships between them. Jeff Vroom Advanced Visual Systems Inc. Waltham, MA Visual Programming with X 2 - 2:45 p.m. Monday This presentation will promote the overall Toolmaster concept using UIM/X as a GUI builder integrated with widgets and graphics libraries Mikael Jern AVS/Uniras Copenhagen, Denmark AVS5 - Advanced Application Development Techniques 3 - 3:45 p.m. Monday Tricks and tips for using AVS5 to build complex applications. Ian Curington Advanced Visual Systems Inc. Surrey, England AVS6 - Execution Model and Distributed Architecture 4 - 4:45 p.m. Monday A detailed presentation of the low-level system architecture of AVS6, focusing on the object/process model in a distributed, heterogeneous environment. Jeff Vroom Advanced Visual Systems Inc. Waltham, MA AVS6 - System Overview 9 - 9:45 a.m. Tuesday An overview of the system architecture and component structure of the upcoming major release of the Application Visualization System. Ham Lord Advanced Visual Systems Inc. Waltham, MA 2D Data Visualization Using Programmable Components 10 - 10:45 a.m. Tuesday Using the Toolmaster visual data analysis libraries for 2D data visualization. Val Schmidt AVS/Uniras Copenhagen, Denmark AVS6 - Integrated Data Display 11 - 11:45 a.m. Tuesday The architecture of the data rendering subsystem in AVS6 -- an integrated data renderer for both 2D and 3D objects, including annotation, 2D graphics, images, 3D geometries, and volumes. Robert Mazaika Advanced Visual Systems Inc. Waltham, MA AVS6 - Designing User Interfaces 1 - 1:45 p.m. Tuesday Prototyping, implementing, and polishing user interfaces with AVS6 Chris Hall Advanced Visual Systems Inc. Waltham, MA AVS5 - Manipulating Geometric Data 2 - 2:45 p.m. Tuesday Tricks and tips for processing the GEOM data type with AVS5. John Sheehan Advanced Visual Systems Inc. Waltham, MA Reusable Visualization Components for Application Development 3 - 3:45 p.m. Tuesday Using the Toolmaster widgets in the construction of sophisticated visual data analysis applications. Val Schmidt AVS/Uniras Copenhagen, Denmark Object-Oriented Application Development with AVS6 9 - 9:45 a.m. Wednesday Using object oriented concepts in the design and implementation of complex applications with the AVS6 application development environment. Dave Kamins Advanced Visual Systems Inc. Waltham, MA AVS6 - Writing and Customizing Visual Data Objects Part 1 - Importing Existing Code 10 - 10:45 a.m. Wednesday Using the User Code Importing feature of AVS6 to auto-magically bring in existing C and C++ libraries. John Poduska Advanced Visual Systems Inc. Waltham, MA AVS6 - Writing and Customizing Visual Data Objects Part 2 - Importing AVS Modules and Applications 11 - 11:45 a.m. Wednesday Upgrading existing AVS5 modules and applications to AVS6 Larry Gelberg Advanced Visual Systems Inc. Waltham, MA AVS6 - Writing and Customizing Visual Data Objects Part 3 - Using Field Data and AVS6 Visual Data Objects 1 - 1:45 p.m. Wednesday Writing visual data objects with AVS6 field data and access libraries Alex Yarmarkovich Advanced Visual Systems Inc. Waltham, MA. USERS EXAMPLES AND CASE STUDIES TRACK ENVIRONMENTAL/EARTH SCIENCES TRACK Chemical Flooding in a Virtual Environment - A Survivor's Guide to VR Development. 3 - 3:45 p.m. Monday A grafting of a VR interface component, a numerical simulation component, and a testbed for wiring all these things together in AVS. Wes Bethel Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory Berkeley, CA A Climate Simulation Study 11 - 11:45 a.m. Tuesday Analyzing basic and derived meteorological parameters such as temperature, humidity and velocity as well as derived parameters including momentum exchange, kinetic energy transport and thermal energy transfer using AVS Philip C. Chen, Fujitsu America, Inc. San Jose, CA Displaying and Accessing Environmental Sciences Modeling Data with AVS. 1 - 1:45 p.m. Tuesday A package that displays data from a variety of environmental modeling simulation studies including AVS modules that read CRAY binary data from the standard EPA models and netCDF data files. Kathy Pearson MCNC Research Triangle Park, NC Visualization of Volcanic Ash Clouds. 2 - 2:45 p.m. Tuesday A system for predicting and visualizing the movement of volcanic ash clouds when an eruption occurs. Mitch Roth Arctic Region Supercomputing Center Fairbanks, AK GENERAL SCIENCE TRACK Visualization of Electronic Motion in Inorganic Molecules. Specific examples of applications of new modules to the visualization of Gibbsite and other soil minerals will be presented. 2 - 2:45 p.m. Monday George R. Famini US AERDEC, Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD, Susanna Wei St. Joseph's University Philadelphia, PA Visualizing Properties of Atomic and Molecular Systems in AVS. 3 - 3:45 p.m. Tuesday Modules developed to read data from some of the existing electronic structure programs; DMol, GAUSSIAN and MOPAC. Ken Flurchick MCNC Research Triangle Park, NC Visualizing Time Dependent Data from Molecular Dynamics Simulations using AVS. 9 - 9:45 a.m. Wednesday The module suite addresses factors in the visualization of molecular dynamics such as data importing, filtering to extract sub-domains, picking individual atoms for highlighting, selecting atoms for monitoring dynamic behaviors such as trajectory, and generating animations for studying the dynamics of the whole system. Upul Obeysekare Naval Research Laboratory Washington, DC A Visualization Environment for Atomic Arrangement and Materials Design. 10 - 10:45 a.m. Wednesday Visualization of the surface morphologies generated from simulation of a material growth technique known as molecular-beam epitaxy (MBE). S. A. Khaddai Blackett Imperial College London, England Quasicrystal Modeling Using AVS. 11 - 11:45 a.m. Wednesday A 3D quasiperiodic tiling as a model of quasicrystals is generated by the projection of a 10D lattice to 3D space. Takashi Soma and Yasunari Watanabe The Institute of Physical and Chemical Research Japan Visualization of Thermodynamic Properties of Gases. 1 - 1:45 p.m. Wednesday The results of a simulation of transport properties of a moderately dense gas. Mark Reed MCNC Research Triangle Park, NC MEDICAL TRACK A Graphical Simulator for Design and Verification of Computer Controlled Treatment Delivery. 11 - 11:45 a.m. Monday The planning and verification of the dynamic trajectories for all the components of a computer controlled treatment machine is accomplished using a graphics-based treatment simulator. Marc L. Kessler University of Michigan Ann Arbor, MI Brachytherapy Visualization using AVS 1 - 1:45 p.m. Monday Surface shaded organ and tumor volumes combined with dose (energy/mass) calculations are displayed quickly for physician interpretation and decision. K. J. Weeks Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC AVS in Medical Treatment Planning. 2 - 2:45 p.m. Monday While concentrating primarily in the areas of radiation therapy treatment and verification of cancer, the use of AVS in areas such as plastic surgery and orthopedics will also be discussed. E. Loren Buhle, Jr. Univ. of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA Use of AVS in a Prototype Ultra-Fast Magnetic Resonance Imaging System. 3 - 3:45 p.m. Monday An ultra-fast magnetic resonance imaging system has been developed which incorporates the use of AVS for data acquisition, pre- and post-processing and image generation and display Roddy McColl Department of Radiology UT Southwestern Multimodality Image Fusion and Registration Techniques Using the MEDIAN (TM) Library and AVS. 11 - 11:45 a.m. Wednesday Using features extracted from the image data, complementary information from different 3D image datasets is registered and fused to create a more complete representation of the patient. Philippe Boulle Focus Graphics Foster City, CA Measurement of Distal Radius Fracture Instability from Computed Tomography using AVS. 1 - 1:45 p.m. Wednesday The reduction in interfragmentary motion of distal radius fractures following external fixation was measured and animated using AVS. John Hipp Beth Israel Hospital, Harvard Medical School Boston, MA CFD TRACK Visualizing Multidimensional Human Exposure Data Inside a Residence House Using AVS. 11 - 11:45 a.m. Tuesday Visualizing and animating the multidimensional in-door air pollution data inside a residence house from a mathematical model. YanChing Q. Zhang ManTech Environmental Technology, Inc. Research Triangle Park, NC Flow Visualization for Lagrangian Particle Methods. 1 - 1:45 p.m. Tuesday Visualizing a numerical simulation of a rising, chaotic bubble where each particle represents a region with a specified vorticity distribution. Micheal W. Glass Sandia National Laboratories Albuquerque, NM Experiences with CM-AVS to Visualize and Compute Simulation Data on the CM-5. 2 - 2:45 p.m. Tuesday A distributed network of CM-AVS and AVS modules is used to concurrently visualize the time varying flow field being computed on the CM-5. Arsi Vaziri NAS Applied Research Branch, NASA Ames Research Center Moffett Field, CA IMAGING: REMOTE SENSING TRACK AVS for Remote Sensing Applications. 4 - 4:45 p.m. Monday An approach taken to construct large systems (50-130 modules) using dynamic network structures, CLI based menu systems, automated annotation of images and graphics, and the role of user data structures AJ Rye and CJ Willis GEC-Marconi Research Centre Chelmsford, UK Processing and Visualization of Infrared Images. 9 - 9:45 a.m. Tuesday A real-time infrared (IR) imaging system capable of measuring crack length, surface temperature, and the strain displacement of materials such as intermetallics, continuous fiber-reinforced ceramics, and metal matrix composites. Dr Yeng Bun Quest Integrated, Inc. Kent, WA SIMMAP - A New AVS Module for Generating Temporal Similarity Maps from Dynamic Images. 10 - 10:45 a.m. Tuesday A new similarity mapping technique has been developed for dynamic image analysis and we have built a new SIMMAP module in AVS for calculating similarity maps. Jadwiga Rogowska Massachusetts General Hospital Boston, MA ENGINEERING ANALYSIS Sound Radiation Analysis of Loudspeaker Systems Using Nearfield Acoustic Holography (NAH) and AVS. 3 - 3:45 p.m. Tuesday This application is useful to study sound propagation in rooms, diffraction effects from cabinet discontinuities, and time-domain energy transfer between multiple drivers. Thomas H. Burns Pennsylvania State University University Park, PA An AVS-based Environment for Visualizing Time-dependent Finite Element Data. 9 - 9:45 a.m. Wednesday An environment that is based on a custom application of the Data Viewer and a robust AVS input module that reads our neutral FE data files. Larry Schoof Sandia National Labs Albuquerque, NM Trappist - a system for Combined and Collaborative Nondestructive Testing Evaluation. 10 - 10:45 a.m. Wednesday The system aims to integrate different NDT methods in a standard environment and to facilitate the collaboration of experts around Europe. Andreas Schumm Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing Berlin, Germany AEROSPACE/ASTROPHYSICS Visualizing Shock Waves in Hypersonic Flow. 11 - 11:45 a.m. Monday Development of a new algorithm to visualize shock waves in hypersonic flow which we have implemented in AVS. Shahid I. Choudhry DLR German Aerospace Research Germany AVS As a Design Simulation Controller for an Airborne Observatory. 1 - 1:45 p.m. Monday Design of the next-generation airborne astronomical telescope (SOFIA - Stratospheric Observatory For Infrared Astronomy). D. Glenn Deardorff Sterling Software, NASA Ames Research Center Moffett Field, CA OIL AND GAS TRACK AVS Techniques for Well Log Analysis of the Eugene Island Field. 4 - 4:45 p.m. Monday THIS TALK CANCELLED AS OF 4/20/94 This study demonstrates how various subsurface rock geometries are defined using well log analysis techniques. B.S. Eiche Cornell University Ithaca, NY Coupling AVS with Mosart as a Large-Scale X-Window Server. 9 - 9:45 a.m. Tuesday Mosart provides the ability to drive multiple display devices, maintaining coherence of the displays and interception of window events such that very large X-windows can be shown on a mosaic of multiple display devices. Jan Moorman Schlumberger Laboratory for Computer Science Austin, TX To Be Announced. 10 - 10:45 a.m. Tuesday Shell Development Co. Houston, TX 1994 INTERNATIONAL AVS USERS CONFERENCE REGISTRATION FORM Please type or print clearly. Photocopy additional forms if necessary. FULL NAME___________________________________ TITLE_______________________________________ COMPANY____________________________________ ADDRESS_____________________________________ ____________________________________________ CITY___________________ STATE______ ZIP/POSTAL CODE_________ COUNTRY_______ TELEPHONE _____________ FAX______________ CONFERENCE FEES: ADVANCE REGULAR AMOUNT (Postmarked Before After 3/18/94) 3/18/94 Commercial Attendees: AVS User Group Member $525 $625 __________ Non Member $575 $675 __________ Student/Government:* AVS User Group Member $425 $525 __________ Non Member $475 $575 __________ * Must include a copy of current identification or documentation of your student or government status with this form You must be a member of the IAC PRIOR tooApril 22, 1994 to receive the $50 discount. Membership is $36 from the IAC. Training Sessions (Please specify which session(s) you enroll in) IMPORTING DATA INTO AVS May 1 (am) WRITING AVS MODULES May 3 (am) May 4 (am) AVS SPECIAL TOPICS - TIPS AND TRICKS May 1 (pm) May 2 (pm) May 3 (pm) Training Sessions #______ @ $75 per session ________ TOTAL CONFERENCE REGISTRATION ENCLOSED __________ PAYMENT OPTIONS: Please return this form with full payment or it cannot be processed. Mail or fax your registration form with credit card payments. Fees are also payable in U.S. Funds by Check or money order. Checks or money orders must made payable to Advanced Visual Systems Inc. By Mail: The 1994 AVS User Group Conference c/o J.R. Schuman Associates 800 South Street, Suite 255 Waltham, MA 02154 USA By Fax: You may fax this form to J.R. Schuman Associates at (617) 235-5560: (Please check one): Master Card Visa CARD NUMBER__________________________________________ EXPIRATION DATE________________________________________ SIGNATURE_____________________________________________ PRINT NAME OF CARDHOLDER________________________________ Confirmation: All registration forms received by April 15th will receive a written confirmation. After April 15th, you may contact the AVS Conference Registration line at (617) 891-8406 if you wish to confirm. Conference Registration Cancellations/Substitutions All cancellations and substitutions must be made in writing and mailed or faxed to: 1994 AVS User Group Conference c/o J.R. Schuman Associates 800 South Street, Suite 255 Waltham, MA 02154 U.S.A. FAX: (617)235-5560 Cancellations must be received by April 15th in writing and will receive a 100% refund. There will be no refunds after April 15. All refunds will be sent after the conclusion of the Conference. Substitutions may be made at anytime. 1994 INTERNATIONAL AVS USERS CONFERENCE HOTEL REGISTRATION FORM THIS FORM MUST BE SENT DIRECTLY TO THE SHERATON BOSTON HOTEL & TOWERS To assure proper room registration for your stay. please complete this reservation request and return before APRIL 11, 1994. Requests received after this date will be accepted based on room and rate availability. All reservation requests must be accompanied by a ONE NIGHT ROOM deposit plus 9.7% tax by check, or credit cards listed below. Requests received without a one night deposit or guarantee will not be honored. Non-guaranteed reservations are subject to cancellation if not guaranteed prior to arrival. NAME: ________________________________________________ ADDRESS:______________________________________________ CITY: ____________________ STATE:_________________________ ZIP/POSTAL CODE:________________ PHONE:________________________ ARRIVAL DATE:__________________.. 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