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I am a senior scientific programmer at the ASC/Alliances Center for Astrophysical Thermonuclear Flashes at the University of Chicago , and a visiting scientist in the Mathematics and Computer Science Division of Argonne National Laboratory .

At Argonne, I have done research in hardware- and software-based volume rendering (both parallel and serial), scientific and medical visualization, 2d and 3d line integral convolution (LIC), CAVETM -ish virtual reality, high-resolution tiled displays and parallel computing. At the Flash Center, I write high-end, parallel, distributed scientific-visualization software using the TeraGrid.

I got my Masters' degree in Computer Science at the Electronic Visualizaton Laboratory (EVL) at the University of Illinois at Chicago . My research interests include visual and experimental mathematics , scientific visualization, volume visualization , virtual reality, and parallel computing.

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(all images produced with VRen , my C++ volume rendering class for the CAVE(TM) .


Volume-rendered time series of evolution of supersonic fluid jet.

G7 - Global Interoperability for Broadband Networks

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The G7 project was a distributed collaboration in astrophysical simulation between scientists in Illinois and Italy. This was accomplished by combining a high-speed ATM network; a distributed-virtual-reality tool ( ManyWorlds ); a real-time, virtual-space volume renderer ( VRen ) and a virtual audio-video-streaming tool ( CAVEav). This image (click on it for a larger copy) shows a scene from the ImmersaDesk(TM) (large window), along with the vic session (smaller window) to which the IDesk user's virtual view (smallest window) is being multicast.

Volume Rendering of Medical and Mathematical Data

Virtual Human Chaotic Systems: reverse-
Project time rendering of
Lorenz system

Volume-rendered CT scans of meteoritic pebbles

( credits and details )

Some other nifty volume-rendered data (32x32x32 voxels)



Publications

T. Udeshi, R. Hudson, M. E. Papka. Seamless Multiresolution Isosurfaces using Wavelets . Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Preprint ANL/MCS-P801-0300, March 2000.

L. Childers, T. L. Disz, M. Hereld, R. Hudson, I. Judson, R. Olson, M. E. Papka, J. Paris, R. Stevens. ActiveSpaces on the Grid: The Construction of Advanced Visualization and Interaction Environments , in Parallelldatorcentrum Kungl Tekniska Högskolan Seventh Annual Conference (Simulation and Visualization on the Grid), vol. 13, Lecture Notes in Computational Science and Engineering, B. Engquist, L. Johnsson, M. Hammill, and F. Short, Eds. Stockholm, Sweden: Springer-Verlag, 1999, pp. 64-80.

Hudson, R., Malagoli, A. Networked Virtual Reality for Real-Time 4D Navigation of Astrophysical Turbulence Data. Proceedings of 1996 Simulation Multiconference of Society for Computer Simulation (Apr. 8 - Apr. 11, 1996), New Orleans, LA, 346-351. (PostScript version)

  • The Grand Challenge work on which this effort was based
  • Movies and images from the CAVE

    Hudson, R., Aarsvold, J.N. , Chen C-T., Chen, J., Davies, P., Disz, T. , Foster, I., Griem, M., Kwong, M.K., Lin, B. An Optical Microscopy System for 3D Dynamic Imaging. Proceedings of IS&T/SPIE Symposium on Elec. Imaging: Science & Technology (Jan. 27 - Feb. 2, 1996), San José, CA. (PostScript version)

    Chen, J., Aarsvold, J. , Chen, C., Griem, M., Davies, P., Disz, T. , Foster, I., Hudson, R., Kwong, M. K., Lin, B., Tang, P. High-Performance Image Analysis and Visualization for Three-dimensional Light Microscopy. Proceedings of IASTED International Confernece on Signal and Image Processing (Nov. 20-23, 1995), Las Vegas. (PostScript version)

    Hudson, R., Gunn, C., Francis, G.K., Sandin, D.J., DeFanti, T.A. Mathenautics: Using VR to Visit 3-D Manifolds. Proceedings of Symposium on Interactive 3d Graphics (April 9-12, 1995), 167-170.

    Brown-VanHoozer, A., Hudson, R., Gokhale, N. Designing User Models In A Virtual Environment . Proceedings of the 39th Annual Meeting of the Human Factors & Ergonomics Society (October 9-13, 1995), San Diego.

    C. Cruz-Neira, J. Leigh, M. Papka, C. Barnes, S. Cohen, S. Das, R. Engelmann, R. Hudson, T. Roy, L. Seigel, C. Vasilakis, T.A. DeFanti, and D.J. Sandin. Scientists in Wonderland: A Report on Visualization Applications in the CAVE Virtual Reality Environment. IEEE 1993 Symposium on Research Frontiers in Virtual Reality, 1993, pp. 59-66.

    Hudson, R. Visualizing Three-Dimensional Strange Attractors. Masters Thesis, University of Illinois at Chicago, 1992. (Thesis images .)



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    Randy Hudson...............................hudson at mcs-dot-anl-dot-gov
Mathematics and Computer Science Division
Argonne National Laboratory................(630) 252-8690 (voice & vmail)
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