The laboratory acquires, promotes, and disseminates video and visualization technology and know-how within the University and provides a research environment for visualizing distributed computations, mobile computing, adaptive algorithms and high quality program visualization and graphics. A growing number of researchers are taking advantage of the unique facilities existing in the laboratory and of the Pavane system which offers sophisticated visualizations without the burden of costly software development.
Outside collaborations involve chemical engineering, electrical engineering, physics, and medicine.
Resources The Computer Visualization Laboratory has unique broadcast-quality video production facilities. They include a sophisticated video camera and a Panasonic video editing station which is capable of recording images from the various computer displays and provides extensive video tape editing capabilities. The lab has three SGI Octane workstations, an Origin 200 server, an SGI Indy, an SGI Indigo, and a Sun Ultra-1 workstation. Two of the workstations are equipped to transfer images to video tape for editing. Two laptops equipped with wireless ethernet and a wireless ethernet bridge to allow them connectivity to the internet are used as a test bed for mobile computing research.