Mathematical Visualization and Related Work
Ken Kimble
UTSI
for Bioinformatics Summit, March 22-23, 2002

Abstract

Over the past 4 years I have developed a course in Visualization
in which readily available software has been used to provide high
level tools to engineering and science students.  These tools
include an interactive, pipeline based system called VTK, which is
suitable ultimately for clustered computation and an animation
development system, Blender, which provides non-interactive,
high quality visualization of time dependent phenomena. VTK includes
many advanced techniques from CFD and medical visualization
research and can be readily extended as new methods become available.
With the help of my graduate student, we have investigated the likely
performance gain and the requirements to fully implement distributed
rendering in ongoing work on VTK.  Ultimately, we hope to provide guidelines
for the use of both of these packages in an effective and inexpensive
computing system.

Related work which has influenced and been influenced by the Visualization
work includes molecule tracking in DNA analysis, mutual information
minimization techniques for image matching and chaotic time series analysis,
and wavelet analysis of neural network structure and training.


Ken Kimble
kkimble@utsi.edu