Thursday, February 25, 2010
11 AM – 1 PM
2 Cummington Mall (Information Services & Technology – SCV)
Room 105
Boston, MA 02215


Boston University’s Scientific Computing and Visualization (SCV) group will present a tutorial on scientific visualization for the Boston University community. No previous experience is assumed.

We will begin with a brief introduction to techniques and issues involved in scientific visualization, followed by information on graphics software and hardware resources available through SCV. Segments will include:

  • Overview of scientific visualization
  • Using Matlab for visualization
  • The scientific visualization packages VTK and ParaView
  • Plotting
  • Image processing and animation for visualization
  • OpenGL, OpenSceneGraph, and Autodesk Maya for visualization
  • SCV’s DAFFIE and the BU Deep Vision Display wall

There is no charge for this event, but we ask that you register.

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For questions about the tutorial, contact Ray Gasser by phone at (617) 358-0545 or email to rayg@bu.edu.


We are also offering two related tutorials which you may be interested in: