DONNA J. COX, MFA, PHD MICHAEL AIKEN CHAIR

DIRECTOR ADVANCED VISUALIZATION LABORATORY (AVL) PROFESSOR SCHOOL OF ART AND DESIGN, FAA

DIRECTOR RESEARCH AND EDUCATION DIVISION CULTURE AND SOCIETY THEME LEAD

DIRECTOR EDREAM INSTITUTE

NATIONAL CENTER FOR SUPERCOMPUTING APPLICATIONS (NCSA)

UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN

In the movie "2010," the same computer created the multicolored surging clouds of the planet Jupiter. Art mimicked life in images drawn from the detailed pictures of Jovian whorls sent back to Earth by the Voyager spacecraft. These effects are some of the creations of Digital Productions, the brainchild of John Whitney Jr. and Gary Demos, who manage a team of 80 computer image specialists, film makers and technicians and the world's most powerful computer, a Cray X-MP that can make 1 billion computations a second.In the movie "2010," the same computer created the multicolored surging clouds of the planet Jupiter. Art mimicked life in images drawn from the detailed pictures of Jovian whorls sent back to Earth by the Voyager spacecraft. These effects are some of the creations of Digital Productions, the brainchild of John Whitney Jr. and Gary Demos, who manage a team of 80 computer image specialists, film makers and technicians and the world's most powerful computer, a Cray X-MP that can make 1 billion computations a second.

Donna Cox 1983-85University of Wisconsin Madison

ICARE: cox color editorCompulage

Elizabeth Cox

Cray 1 1985 NCSA NCSA Founding Director Larry Smarr Professor Astronomy

Donna Cox, 1988 courtesy Art PhotographerKurt Fishback

Assistant Professor Donna Cox, NCSA opening 1985

Cray 1 1985 NCSA

Professor George Francis

Ray Idaszak, student

Renaissance Team1985-8

Venus and friends ‘88

Dr. Michael Norman NCSA

Astrophysical Jet 1986 Siggraph Electronic Theater

Donna Cox, Access 1986-87

3D glyphs 1986 Plastic Injection

Molding Kodak

Richard Ellson, Kodak research

scientist

empowering people to readpostmodern glyphshierglyphics

Visual Metaphors (visaphors)

Supercomputing Conference Baltimore, 2002

Renaissance Teams in Education

Marc Olano, Cox, Patterson, Robin Barger, Chris Landreth 1989-90

Donna Cox and Roger Ebert Champaign IL, circa 1993

The Power of Story

C I N E M AT I C P R E S E N TAT I O N O F S C I E N T I F I C D ATA

Colliding Galaxies Digital painting by Don Dixon

Colliding Galaxies NCSA

Venusian Volcano Digital painting by ESA-AOES Media Lab

Venusian Volcano NCSA

D A TA - D R I V E N V I S U A L S F O R N O N F I C T I O N N A R R A T I V E S A N D P U B L I C O U T R E A C H

Cosmic Voyage IMAX movie 1996

nominated for Academy Award 1997 Bob Patterson, Cox, Mr.&Mrs. Bayley Silleck, Mr. & Mrs. Jeff Martin

V I R T U A L D I R E C T O R N C S A / AV L S I N C E 1 9 9 4

C A V E V I R T U A L R E A L I T Y E N V I R O N M E N T

Bob Patterson, Cox, Marcus Thiebaux

Virtual Reality Remote Collaboration between research universities

Cox, Robert Patterson, Marcus Thiebaux, Stuart Levy Professor Glen Wheels, Dr. Cathy Lascara, Old Dominion University

C O M P U TAT I O N A L S C I E N C E A N D V I S U A L I Z AT I O N

Blue Waters Supercomputing Facility

T H E A N AT O M Y O F A T O R N A D O V I S U A L I Z AT I O N A N D B U I L D I N G T H E V I S U A L M E TA P H O R

R E C E N T F I L M P R O J E C T SD A TA - D R I V E N V I S U A L S F O R N O N F I C T I O N N A R R A T I V E S

H U B B L E 3 D I M A X F I L M

AJ Christensen, Patterson, Matt Hall, Cox, Stuart Levy,

Alex Betts

H U B B L E 3 D I M A X F I L M

Flight from Milky Way galaxy to large scale Universe, Cosmic Web computational science

5 minutes

stereo each eye at 5000 pixel resolution

Orion Nebula generated from Hubble data 5 minutes

excerpt: Hubble3D IMAX movie narrated by Leonardo DiCaprio

Courtesy Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. and IMAX Filmed EntertainmentCopyright 2010 Warner Bros.

D Y N A M I C E A R T H D I G I TA L D O M E F I L M

Hurricane Katrina Supercomputer Simulation Dr. Wei Wang NCAR

Narrated by Liam Neeson translated into 13 languages

Co-production of Denver Museum of Nature and Science, Thomas Lucas Productions, Spitz Inc., NCSA

Hurricane Katrina data by Dr. Wei Wang, NCAR

NCAR Dr. Wei Wang

Virtual Director ncsa/avl since 1994

Virtual Director ncsa/avl since 1994

AVL using Virtual Director., NCSA

“Solar Superstorms” First CADENS Digital Museum Show Release Summer 2015 Narrated by Benedict Cumberbatch translated into 8 languages

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S O L A R D Y N A M I C S T E L E S C O P E O B S E R VA T I O N S

S O L A R W I N D A N D M A G N E T O S P H E R E

H O M A K A R I M A B A D I , U C S A N D I E G O

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2 D : 2 2 0 T I M E S T E P S , 3 0 G B 3 D : 4 7 T I M E S T E P S , 1 2 T B

B L U E WAT E R S , U N I V E R S I T Y O F I L L I N O I S AT U R B A N A - C H A M PA I G N

“ABeau(fulPlanet”courtesyofIMAXCorpora(on

Playingnowatmuseumsandtranslatedintomorethan6languages

50 minute documentary on DES/ LSST Amazon Prime

Tao of Bach 2012

KCPA performance directed by Chungliang Al Huang

Michael Fitzpatrick

KCPA theater

software Alex Betts

T H E T E A MA D VA N C E D V I S U A L I Z AT I O N L A B

Jeff Carpenter, Cox, Robert Patterson, Kalina Borkiewicz, Stuart Levy, AJ Christensen

T H A N K Y O U