NCSA Advanced Visualization Lab

09/03/2024

https://www.ncsa.illinois.edu/illinois-computes-helps-bring-a-whale-of-a-story-to-life/

You don’t need to be a scientist who crunches big data to take advantage of Illinois Computes.

12/27/2023

Merry Christmas and happy holidays to all 🎄✨

12/19/2023

AVL Director Kalina Borkiewicz is leaving NCSA after 10 years.

Kalina is an epitome of a leader and has been a guiding light for AVL. In the last 10 years she went from a junior programmer to leading the division through sheer hard work, determination and a passion for visualization.

Please join us in congratulating her as she embarks on a new adventure as a PhD candidate at the University of Utah. We will miss you dearly.

12/12/2023

AVL Holiday Dinner.

Happy holidays from us to you!

12/02/2023

Having fun at the NCSA bowling party

11/16/2023

How to Get a NCSA Nerd Ring Light Additional Rules and Requirements

11/12/2023

We are excited to be finalists in the Scientific Visualization Showcase. Wish us luck, we find out if we win on Thursday!

11/06/2023

New article in the LSE Impact Blog published about our work on evidence-based science communication using 3D scientific visualization. Here, we present our key findings about effective informational labelling for 3D data visualization. Kalina Borkiewicz

The importance of accurate labels and annotations is drilled into researchers early in their careers, but the role they play in cinematic data visualizations aimed at broader audiences is rarely ad…

11/06/2023

A couple photos from NCSA's Halloween. Jeff dressed as the Hatbox Ghost, and Kalina dressed as a Nerd. Also featured: Sebastian as Stabbed Guy.

10/25/2023

Hear from AVL Director Kalina Borkiewicz about how we are more than meets the eye.

10/25/2023

Congratulations, Colter!

Colter joined AVL years ago as a SPIN student, and has continued working with us throughout his undergraduate and graduate education. We are proud of his progress and all his accomplishments!

STARC Doctoral student Colter E Wehmeier, who is pursuing a Dual PhD with the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with the title 'MetaFraming: Digital Humanities and Game Design for Participatory Heritage Interpretation', successfully completed his Comprehensive Examination yesterday.

Congratulations Colter!

10/16/2023

Academy Award winner and Director of Research at Netflix, Paul Debevec, stopped by for an AVL demo the other day. Great to see you, Paul!