3D Visualisation for Astronomy

Here we look at a range of 3D visualisation tools suitable for analysing large astronomical data cubes (which are typically in FITS format). WALLABY data cubes obtained from a single ASKAP pointing will be large, about 6k × 6k × 16,384 channels, i.e. 620 giga-voxels or 2.5 TB. We are in the process of defining our 3D visualisation needs for WALLABY.

Relevant conferences

Workshops

Giant HIPASS cube of the whole southern sky made by Russell Jurek (ATNF) from the existing set of 387 original southern HIPASS cubes. 3D Visualisation by Amr Hassan (Swinburne University of Technology).

Swinburne Visualisation Research

  • Key people in the WALLABY team: David Barnes, Chris Fluke, and Amr Hassan
  • S2PLOT
  • Real-time, interactive GPU based volume rendering (e.g. HIPASS in 3D)
PhD student Amr Hassan demonstrates an 8000 × 8000 pixel volume rendering of a full southern sky HIPASS cube on the CSIRO OptiPortal during the 3D Visualisation Workshop @ ATNF. The giant cube was made by Russell Jurek (ATNF) from the existing set of 387 original southern HIPASS cubes.

Visualisation Tools

Ideas / Links

Data Archives