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NAG's IRIS Explorer Case Studies

This page contains links to User stories and pictures of what IRIS Explorer can do, describing some of the work being undertaken around the world using IRIS Explorer.

User Posters

• Nike uses IRIS Explorer to design hi-tech footwear
  Flexible and powerful computer visualization software is helping a world-famous sports and fitness company's 'R&D SWAT Team' look for technological developments that can take it into the future with improved products and processes.
• High Energy Physics Case Study
  CERN Scientists Recreate "Big Bang" Conditions to Understand How Nature Works.
• Application Development with IRIS Explorer
  Paul Morin, The University of Minnesota's Geology Department
• NIH Researcher Creates Anatomic Visualization for Noninvasive 3D Bronchial Fly-Throughs
  Ronald M. Summers, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland
• Cosmological Research with IRIS Explorer
  Ue-Li Pen, the Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Massachusetts
• Free Surface Hydrodynamic Motion Revealed
  Leonard Imas, Vortical Flow Research (VFR) Laboratory in the Ocean Engineering Department at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
• Poster from the Kinex Project between NAG and the University of Leeds: set 1 and set 2
• Using IRIS Explorer in Oil Recovery Research
  Mike London, University of Manitoba and Alberta Research Council
• Parallel Isosurface Calculation and Rendering of Large Datasets in IRIS Explorer
  Santiago Lombeyda and Jim Pool, Center for Advanced Computing Research, California Institute of Technology, and Mahesh Rajan, Hewlett-Packard, Inc.
• Interfacing IRIS Explorer to a Virtual Reality System
  David Boyd and Julian Gallop, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, and Jeremy Walton, NAG Ltd.
• Visual Mining of Business Data with IRIS Explorer
  Anton Heijs, MINT b.v. and Ruud Smeulders, Robeco Group
• COllaborative VIsualization in Scientific Analysis - COVISA
  Jason Wood, University of Leeds
• Using IRIS Explorer to build environmental applications
  Pat Gaffney, Bergen Software Services International A/S
• Animation of Wave Forces on Offshore Installations in IRIS Explorer
  Xing Cai and Even Mehlum, University of Oslo and SINTEF Applied Mathematics, Norway
• Using IRIS Explorer as a Visualisation Web Server
  Jason Wood, Helen Wright and Ken Brodlie, University of Leeds

Some posters are also available in VRML

Examples of Using IRIS Explorer

• Compiling Groups in IRIS Explorer 5.0
• Creating demo applications for NAG Numerical Libraries with IRIS Explorer
• Using IRIS Explorer with a Geographic Information System
• Sharing 3D from IRIS Explorer: New options for VRML 2.0 output
• Visualisation of Fastflo CFD data using IRIS Explorer
• An airline route planning system
• CFD Visualisation with IRIS Explorer 3.5

IRIS Explorer Users' Group Meetings

This is a selection of the posters put up at IRIS Explorer Users's Group meetings held during SIGGRAPH and Eurographics.

• CFD Viewing
• New pyramid facilities
• More new pyramid facilities
• New NAG Graphics facilities
• Hard rock study, Urban Svensson
• New line and graph modules, NAG
• More new modules, NAG
• New modules, NAG and IECJ
• Using IRIS Explorer in Japan, IECJ

Nicograph Meetings

This is a selection of the posters put up at the IRIS Explorer Center Japan stand at past Nicograph meetings

• NAGParticleAdvect and ReadPhoenics for CFD work
• New volume rendering module
• Some examples of using IRIS Explorer

External Posters

This is a list of pointers to other areas where you can find IRIS Explorer images and related user stories.

• The HEPVIS '96 High Energy Physics Visualisation Workshop held at CERN.
• New Analysis Tools for Large Numerical Data Sets a mini-workshop at NCAR, Boulder Colorado, August 1994.
• BoB (Bricks of Bytes)

IRIS Explorer and VRML

What's Your Story?

Is the work that you do interesting? Do you think it would make a good story or poster? We're always on the look-out for good stories about IRIS Explorer use. If you can tell one please contact us, or mail us the URL of your own pages if you prefer.