低碳能效型水利数据中心的规划与建设

围绕对低碳能效型水利数据中心的认识与理解,从数据中心基础设施规划与建设的角度,对基本内涵、设计理念、实施方法、最佳实践、核心技术等展开分析和讨论,以期在新建或改造水利数据中心的过程中发挥一定作用,满足数据中心建设绿色环保、节能减排的要求,顺应未来新一代数据中心发展的趋势。     

大型机械设备三维仿真训练系统的关键技术

大型机械设备具有体积庞大、价格昂贵、操作复杂、生产环境恶劣等特点,这些都给学习和操作此类设备带来了很多不便。针对这种实际情况,开发出以计算机仿真技术为核心大型机械设备三维仿真训练系统,可应用于对大型机械设备操作人员的培训。介绍了开发大型机械设备三维仿真训练系统应解决的关键问题,并以采用Java3D技术开发的锻压机三维仿真训练系统为例进行了验证。在应用中表明,大型机械设备三维仿真训练系统具有安全性、实用性、经济性等特点。     

基于Duckling应用集成框架的数据集成与共享工具DLM

虚拟科研应用环境中多源异构数据的集成和共享问题是个热点问题。本文基于虚拟科研环境协同工作套件duckling应用集成框架,实现了一个通用的数据集成与共享工具DLM。该工具使用Portlet技术,是BS架构的Web应用,提供通用的数据采集、数据处理、数据可视化展示和数据下载功能,解决了虚拟科研环境中数据的统一采集、处理和共享问题。该工具已经在大气、气象和生物等相关领域中的课题研究中得到了应用,取得了初步的成效。     

基于平面矢量场的可视化方法的研究

平面矢量场可视化是科学计算可视化的重要研究内容。矢量场以直观的图形图像显示场的运动,透过抽象数据有效洞察其内涵本质和变化规律,广泛应用于计算流体力学、航空动力学、大气物理和气象分析等领域。对平面矢量场进行可视化的方法有很多种,常见的有点图标法、流线法、线积分卷积法和拓扑分析法等。论文主要研究常见的可视化方法,分析它们的性能,并通过实际的例子,对具体的可视化结果图像进行比较。通过该研究,能够给人们在选择可视化方法时提供依据。     

A new graphical visualization of n-dimensional Pareto front for decision-making in multiobjective optimization

New challenges in engineering design lead to multiobjective (multicriteria) problems. In this context, the Pareto front supplies a set of solutions where the designer (decision-maker) has to look for the best choice according to his preferences. Visualization techniques often play a key role in helping decision-makers, but they have important restrictions for more than two-dimensional Pareto fronts. In this work, a new graphical representation, called Level Diagrams, for n-dimensional Pareto front analysis is proposed. Level Diagrams consists of representing each objective and design parameter on separate diagrams. This new technique is based on two key points: classification of Pareto front points according to their proximity to ideal points measured with a specific norm of normalized objectives (several norms can be used); and synchronization of objective and parameter diagrams. Some of the new possibilities for analyzing Pareto fronts are shown. Additionally, in order to introduce designer preferences, Level Diagrams can be coloured, so establishing a visual representation of preferences that can help the decision-maker. Finally, an example of a robust control design is presented - a benchmark proposed at the American Control Conference. This design is set as a six-dimensional multiobjective problem.     

Multilayer hybrid visualizations to support 3D GIS

In this paper, we present a unique hybrid visualization system for spatial data. Although some existing 3D GIS systems offer 2D views they are typically isolated from the 3D view in that they are presented in a separate window. Our system is a novel hybrid 2D/3D approach that seamlessly integrates 2D and 3D views of the same data. In our interface, multiple layers of information are continuously transformed between the 2D and 3D modes under the control of the user, directly over a base terrain. In this way, our prototype system is able to depict 2D and 3D views within the same window. This has advantages, since 2D and 3D visualizations can each be easier to interpret in different contexts.In this work we develop this concept of a hybrid visualization by presenting a comprehensive set of capabilities within our distinctive system. These include new facilities such as: hybrid landmark, 3D point, and chart layers, the grouping of multiple hybrid layers, layer painting, the merging of layer controls and consistent zooming functionality.     

Analyzing the performance of a cluster-based architecture for immersive visualization systems

Cluster computing has become an essential issue for designing immersive visualization systems. This paradigm employs scalable clusters of commodity computers with much lower costs than would be possible with the high-end, shared memory computers that have been traditionally used for virtual reality purposes. This change in the design of virtual reality systems has caused some development environments oriented toward shared memory computing to require modifications to their internal architectures in order to support cluster computing. This is the case of VR Juggler, which is considered one of the most important virtual reality application development frameworks based on open source code.     

Topological and Variational Properties of a Model for the Reconstruction of Three-Dimensional Transparent Images with Self-Occlusions

We introduce and study a two-dimensional variational model for the reconstruction of a smooth generic solid shape E, which may handle the self-occlusions and that can be considered as an improvement of the 2.1D sketch of Nitzberg and Mumford (Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Computer Vision, Osaka, 1990). We characterize from the topological viewpoint the apparent contour of E, namely, we characterize those planar graphs that are apparent contours of some shape E. This is the classical problem of recovering a three-dimensional layered shape from its apparent contour, which is of interest in theoretical computer vision. We make use of the so-called Huffman labeling (Machine Intelligence, vol. 6, Am. Elsevier, New York, 1971), see also the papers of Williams (Ph.D. Dissertation, 1994 and Int. J. Comput. Vis. 23:93–108, 1997) and the paper of Karpenko and Hughes (Preprint, 2006) for related results. Moreover, we show that if E and F are two shapes having the same apparent contour, then E and F differ by a global homeomorphism which is strictly increasing on each fiber along the direction of the eye of the observer. These two topological theorems allow to find the domain of the functional ℱ describing the model. Compactness, semicontinuity and relaxation properties of ℱ are then studied, as well as connections of our model with the problem of completion of hidden contours.

Perceptual image preview

Image preview is a convenient way to browse large or multiple images on small displays. However, current signal-level image resampling algorithms may remove many features of interest in the preview image. In this paper, we propose perceptual image preview which retains more perceptual features such that users can inspect features of interest by viewing the preview image only and without zooming in. This technology has two components, structure enhancement and perceptual feature visualization. Structure enhancement enhances the image structure while suppressing subtle details using a gradient modulation method, thus making the succedent perceptual features more apparent. For perceptual feature visualization, features of interest detected in the picture is visualized on the structure enhanced preview image. We demonstrate with two examples of most commonly used image quality features, image blur and noise. The effectiveness of the proposed method is validated by experimental results.     

Web-based visualization of spatial objects in 3DGIS

Adaptive rendering large and complex spatial data has become an important research issue in a 3DGIS application. In order to transmit the data to the client efficiently,this paper proposes a node-layer data model to manage the 3D scene. Because the large spatial data and limited network bandwidth are the main bottlenecks of web-based 3DGIS,a client/server architecture including progressive transmission methods and multiresolution representations,together with the spatial index,are developed to improve the p...