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Computer Science - Visualization Forum - Forensic Facial Reconstruction- Adding detail, keeping it honest - Reconstructing the face of an unidentified person from their skull is a staple of museum display and crime lab dramatizations. But the more "realistic" a portrait based solely on the skull becomes, the further away it drifts from being a accurate .......

Computer Science - Visualization Forum - Introducing the Multitouch Wall - The new Duke-RENCI Center on the first floor of the OIT-Telecommunications Building features a 13-foot X 5-foot Multi-Touch Visualization Wall that was developed in-house by a team of RENCI staff scientists.

Computer Science - Visualization Forum - Transdisciplinary Research - Building Bridging Languages - We have often spoken of interdisciplinary research in the past. In transdisciplinary research, a series of disciplines are bridged. Because no singular discipline or history of that discipline can be used to articulate the emergent work that is arising, .

Computer Science - Visualization Forum - Monitoring Spring from Satellites - The green flush of spring is readily observable from space. Near daily satellites provide wall-to-wall images of the variable patterns of spring green-up over space and time. Once patterns of spring onset and duration are characterized, we can begin to ..

Computer Science - Visualization Forum - Everybody's doing it: web-based visualizations and mashups in the social sciences - Last year, the Center for Instructional Technology provided grants for faculty interested in more deeply pursuing the addition of visualizations to their teaching. Many of the projects CIT funded also had a strong impact on the research faculty have been

Computer Science - Visualization Forum - Smart Surfaces and Smart Spaces for Smart Homes - With the recent emergence of affordable, large, high resolution displays for the home, we can now easily imagine table scale and wall scale displays that interact with room occupants in a variety .

Computer Science - Visualization Forum - Introducing the Friday Forum - I like to start each semester off with an overview/welcome talk. Today I will discuss some projects that happened through the VTG group over the summer, such as the LINK Media Wall (Steve Feller), an Avatar Creation Ensemble ...................

Computer Science - Visualization Forum - HarambeeNet: Social Networks as an Introduction to Computer Science - Despite exponential increases in computational power, examples used in computer science courses have remained largely unchanged and enrollment have seen a recent marked decline. The goal of the HarambeeNet project is to bring educators together ..........

Computer Science - Visualization Forum - Scientific Graphics with Adobe Illustrator: Beyond the Basics - Last semester (see the October 19, 2007 Friday Forum) I went over the rudiments of using Adobe Illustrator, a vector graphics editing program which can be a very valuable tool for scientists and engineers, but which some people avoid because of its ......

Computer Science - Visualization Forum - Constructal theory : the origin of design in nature - Constructal theory is the mental viewing that the widespread occurrence of "designedness" in nature is a universal phenomenon, a phenomenon of physics, which is summarized by the constructal law: "for a finite-size flow system to persist in time ...