The Center for Data Intensive Computing offers an array of advanced visualization facilities and tools associated with both Brookhaven National Laboratory and the State University of New York at Stony Brook. The Visualization Theater at BNL uses a stereographic projection facility that projects its three-dimensional images into a conference room setting, using polarized light for stereo separation.
Viewers wear passive polarized glasses to see the stereo effect.
The 3D illusion created by stereo is enhanced by one or more other visualization techniques including shading, perspective, and motion. The Visualization Laboratory at Stony Brook , headed by Leading Professor Arie E. Kaufman, is developing volume rendering techniques for use in scientific visualization and virtual reality applications. A popular volume rendering algorithm is splatting, which pairs good image quality with an efficient volume projection scheme as well as a sparse object representation. The object is modeled as a collection of fuzzy points which are projected on the screen where they composite to the desired image. The originally proposed approach, however, leads to a number of inaccuracies.