Here we look at a range of 3D visualisation tools suitable for analysing large astronomical data cubes (which are typically in FITS format). WALLABY data cubes obtained from a single ASKAP pointing will be large, about 6k x 6k x 16,384 channels, i.e. 620 Giga voxels or 2.5 TByte.
2013, Dec 8-10 OzViz 2013, Monash University, Melbourne
2013, Dec 9-13 Astroinformatics 2013: Knowledge From Data, ATNF, Sydney
2014, Mar 10-14 3D2014: Gas and stars in galaxies: A multi-wavelength 3D perspective, ESO, Garching near Munich, Germany
2014, July 7-11 IAU Symposium 309: Galaxies in 3D across the Universe", Vienna, Austria
2009, Feb 4/5 3D Visualisation Conf. @ ATNF
2009, Dec 14-16 AstroMed09 @ Sydney Uni; selected talks:
Critical Review of Scientific Visualisation in Astronomy (by Chris Fluke)
Visualisation-directed interactive model-fitting to spectral data cubes (by Chris Fluke)
GPU-based volumne rendering of noisy multi-spectral astronopmical data (by Amr Hassan)
Challenges for Source finding in Radio Astronomy (by Tara Murphy)
3D Source Finding in Radio Astronomy (by Matthew Whiting)
2010, Apr 7, internal ATNF meeting re databases / catalogs - my notes
2010, Apr 28, 3D Visualisation workshop @ ATNF
2010, May 16?, internal ATNF workshop
Key people in the WALLABY team: David Barnes, Chris Fluke, and Amr Hassan
Real-time, interactive GPU based volume rendering (e.g. HIPASS in 3D)
KARMA (interactive 2D viewing and analysis of 3D astronomical data cubes; 3D cube animations with XRAY; limited to cubes sizes less than ??)
CASA Viewer in casapy (interactive 2D viewing and analysis of 3D cubes)
VisIVO (interactive 3D viewing and analysis of large data tables)
FITS and HDF5 data formats will be included in future
described in "VisIVO - Integrated Tools and Services for Large-Scale Astrophysical Visualization"
CSIRO's eResearch (Advanced Scientific Computing, Data Management Services, Visualisation, Software Development Tools, etc.)
Related: Wiki Sky, Google Sky, Zoomable Spitzer images