CCR has a diverse and extensive capability in scientific, medical, and urban visualization that is available to support faculty led research projects. This includes development of custom, easy to use 2D and 3D visualization applications complete with graphical user interfaces (GUI's) for faculty-based scientific and medical visualization applications. Expertise in widely used visualization tool kits such as VTK, FLTK, OpenSceneGraph, and OpenGL, as well as extensive experience in the 3D reconstruction of 2D medical imaging data, including CT, MRI, PET and SPECT imaging. CCR staff are capable of developing visualizations of many time varying scientific data sets, including but not limited to: molecular simulations, chemical reactions, and other complex systems.
CCR's Urban Simulation and Visualization team is widely recognized as an innovator in the field of Urban Simulation and Visualization for it's development of custom software packages and development tools for real-time visualization. Most noteworthy is a real-time run engine (TrafficSim3D), written in OpenSceneGraph, that takes the output of traditional traffic simulation packages such as VISSIM and displays the traffic in an existing 3-D environment. This software, which runs on a PC (MAC, Linux, or Windows based), is completely interactive, allowing the user to move through the simulation much as is done in today's high-end video games. In addition, by a simple click on any automobile in the simulation, users can place themselves inside the car and experience the simulation (ex, new bridge, toll plaza, roundabout, interchange) from within the car as it moves through the simulation. Pedestrians can also be modeled as can rail traffic. CCR also has extensive experience working with real-time (interactive) visualization, animation, and most of the widely used animation/simulation packages, including Visualization Toolkit, Multigen-Paradigm Creator and Vega, 3DStudioMax, Alias|Wavefront Maya, SGI Performer, OpenSceneGraph, and Adobe Photoshop. CCR's work in urban visualization, much of which is carried out in collaboration with the University at Buffalo's Urban Design Project, has included many high-profile community based projects, including the Peace Bridge Gateway Improvement Project, the Buffalo-Niagara Medical Campus Project, the Cars on Main St Project, and the Buffalo Olmsted Parks Conservancy Project. CCR also has a national reputation in the application of visualization to transportation design and planning.
Faculty are encouraged to contact CCR for additional details on these capabilities and how they might be employed to help enable your research. Examples of CCR's capability in the area of visualization are contained below.
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