It’s time for an immersive visualization tool spotlight: Toirt Samhlaigh (“Volume Visualization” in Irish Gaelic) is an open source slice-based volume rendering tool designed from the ground up with immersive displays in mind. Built using VRUI (see my previous post), Toirt Samhlaigh works quite nicely on laptops, CAVEs, and low-cost immersive displays. This tool was architected by Patrick O’Leary while at DRI and includes contributions from other researchers at DRI, INL, and Indiana U.
About Daniel Coming
Daniel Coming is an Assistant Research Visualization Scientist at the Desert Research Institute (DRI), where he directs visualization labs including two CAVE style displays and several low-cost immersive displays; and he is affiliated with the Center for Advanced Visualization, Computation and Modeling (CAVCaM). He also teaches and advises student’s theses at the University of Nevada, Reno (UNR), where he is an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering.
Daniel's research interests are in immersive or interactive visualization, VR-based training (particularly CAVE-based), and accelerating computer graphics algorithms.
Daniel earned his Ph.D in 2007 and M.S. in 2006 at the University of California, Davis and his B.S. in 2002 at the University of Nevada, Reno, all in Computer Science.
It’s nice to see there’s a worthwhile tool out there for the lower-end/lower-cost immersive displays. Makes it a little more accessible for those who don’t have a whole lot of research dollars at their disposal (not that this stuff is obtainable on a Wal-Mart budget as it is).