The user arranges his subjects while watching the monitor to see the results. Changing the subjects or adjusting the light, immediately changes the image on the monitor. This approach provides immediate and continuous feedback to the user resulting in better, faster subsurface understanding. Actively-visualized software takes advantage of the fastest computer hardware and sophisticated software techniques to continually compute and display results while the geoscientist modifies parameters. This technique enables complex computations to be calculated and the results displayed in animated graphical form.
Users benefit by receiving continuous visual feedback while any parameter is modified.
Real-time systems benefit geoscientists in many areas, including seismic analysis, modeling and geological mapping. In order for EarthWorks to achieve real-time speeds, the system must rapidly process data and images. Particularly challenging is seismic data that must be accessed, processed and visualized in real-time. Relationships between all types of seismic, geological, map and spatial attributes are more easily detected and understood. The real-time approach is advantageous because it demonstrates a direct, linked relationship between the parameter and visualized image.