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Deep Thunder Visualization for Deep Thunder Visualization is a method of computing by which the enormous bandwidth and processing power of the human visual (eye-brain) system becomes an integral part of extracting knowledge from complex data.  It utilizes graphics and imaging techniques as well as knowledge of both data management and the human visual system.  Since Deep Thunder rapidly produces large volumes of data that must be utilized in a timely manner for many different applications, visualization is an integral part of the overall system. As a start, you may wish to look at an overview, simple demonstration and examples of the visualization component of Deep Thunder.  It focuses on the mapping of user goals to the design of pictorial content by considering both the underlying data characteristics and the (human) perception of the visualization. In addition to examining specific results of past experiments, or visiting an example operational forecast, there are several papers related to the visualization work, which are available for you to read. Three-Dimensional Visualization for Support of Operational Forecasting at the 1996 Centennial Olympic Games (or in PDF) Task-Specific Visualization Design for Operational Weather Forecasting (or in PDF) Visualization Techniques for Applications of High-Resolution Numerical Weather Models (or in PDF) Visual Data Fusion for Applications of High-Resolution Numerical Weather Prediction (or in PDF) (or a presentation) Multi-Resolution Visualization Techniques for Nested Weather Models (or in PDF) (or a presentation) How Can We Build More Effective Weather Visualizations? Extreme Visual Compression for Dissemination of Interations with Time-Varying Data Coupling of Mesoscale Weather Models to Business Operations Utilizing Visual Data Fusion Interactive Web-Based Three-Dimensional Visualizations of Operational Mesoscale Weather Models Web-Based Dissemination and Visualization of Mesoscale Weather Models for Business Operations Web-Based Dissemination and Visualization of Operational Mesoscale Weather Models A summary story about Deep Thunder, which includes a brief gallery of visualized forecasts For information and pointers on related topics in visualization, please visit Lloyd Treinish's web site, /people/l/lloydt   lloydt@us.ibm.com Last updated September 25, 2006