Don Lamb, ACS/Alliance FLASH Center, University of Chicago
Argonne scientists are working on more efficient techniques to allow computer visualizations of extremely complex phenomena, like this rendering of a supernova.
This astrophysics simulation seeks to discover the mechanism behind core-collapse supernovae, or the violent death of short-lived, massive stars. The image shows entropy values in the core of the supernova, different colors and transparencies assigned to different values of entropy. By selectively adjusting the color and transparency, the scientist can peel away outer layers and see values in the interior of the 3-D volume.
Image courtesy Hongfeng Yu at University of California-Davis. The dataset used was provided by scientists John Blondin at North Carolina State University and Tony Mezzacappa from Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
Don Lamb, ACS/Alliance FLASH Center, University of Chicago
Argonne scientists are working on more efficient techniques to allow computer visualizations of extremely complex phenomena, like this rendering of a supernova.
This astrophysics simulation seeks to discover the mechanism behind core-collapse supernovae, or the violent death of short-lived, massive stars. The image shows entropy values in the core of the supernova, different colors and transparencies assigned to different values of entropy. By selectively adjusting the color and transparency, the scientist can peel away outer layers and see values in the interior of the 3-D volume.
Image courtesy Hongfeng Yu at University of California-Davis. The dataset used was provided by scientists John Blondin at North Carolina State University and Tony Mezzacappa from Oak Ridge National Laboratory.