LBNL Image Library -- Collection BERKELEY-LAB/RESEARCH-1991-PRESENT

Sequence of images shows different steps in computer animation

Image File

1993Summer_pg19_waves

Title

Sequence of images shows different steps in computer animation

Description

This sequence of images, produced by visualizing time-varying data, shows several different steps in a computer animation that simulates elastic wave propogation through a homogenous medium. The gigabyte dataset was produced on computers at LBNL and visualized on an ordinary graphics workstation using software that runs over a geographically distributed computing network. This simulation, which reveals such phenomena as wave scattering and polarization, is important for a variety of research, ranging from the inhomogenities in the Earth's crust and upper mantle, to the control of composite elastic materials. The graphic was produced by Wes Bethel of LBNL's Information and Computing Sciences Division; the simulation was done by Valeri Korneev of the Earth Sciences Division.

Citation Caption

This sequence of images, produced by visualizing time-varying data, shows several different steps in a computer animation that simulates elastic wave propogation through a homogenous medium. This simulation, which reveals such phenomena as wave scattering and polarization, is important for a variety of research, ranging from the inhomogenities in the Earth's crust and upper mantle, to the control of composite elastic materials.

Date

Summer 1993

Division

Information and Computing Sciences

People

Wes Bethel

Site

Berkeley

Publication

LBL Research Review