Faculty Interaction

Jim Caruthers

School of Chemical Engineering
and Center for Catalyst Design (CCD) Project
Purdue University

Brief Project Description:

Our project is an immersive scientific visualization and visual analytics application being developed with the School of Chemical Engineering as part of the Center for Catalyst Design. The application utilizes volume rendering, 3D plotting and tables to visualize molecular structures, quantum chemical computations, statistical data and experimental data stored in a central database. The system scales from a workstation to a high resolution cluster-driven tiled display and can utilize input from keyboard and mouse, joystick, or six degree-of-freedom tracked devices. Currently, we are reviewing feedback and data from a preliminary usability study which has been conducted to improve the user interface of the system. Future work will include additional visualization tools for multivariate data as well as volume rendering of reaction simulations.