Xcelgo provides virtual automation software for 3D modeling along the cycle of automated material handling systems – Like airport baggage handling or larger warehouse storage systems. The purpose of their product is to eliminate the risks involved in building these large and very expensive systems, by allowing simulation and modelling of the system up front.

Experior, the 3D modelling system by Xcelgo, is built around a fixed function DirectX 9.0 pipeline programmed in C# though wrapper code. DirectX 9.0 is characterized by a lack of scalability because of the driver overhead imposed by the dated rendering paradigm. The 3D simulation is built from a large number of user generated primitives which are able to freely move around the scene. Each of these are being rendered individually which causes the GPU and CPU to lockstep.

The fixed function rendering pipeline supports only very limited lighting techniques, hence limiting the visual appeal of their presented scenes. And even in engineering type visualizations, the visual quality gets attention and opens for expanding the customer base.

Xcelgo wanted to prepare for future scenarios with larger models and a more easily maintained rendering framework – and decided to update the rendering pipeline to a modern shader-based DirectX 11 pipeline. In close collaboration we have designed and implemented a completely new rendering pipeline.

The new pipeline supports a lot of features which will help Xcelgo further push the limits of virtual automation:

* DirectX 11 rendering pipeline written from the bottom up based on Xcelgos domain knowledge about their customers wishes.
* Intelligent optimization of scene rendering to avoid expert rendering knowledge when designing the scene geometry.
* Threaded rendering freeing the rest of the workstation to do simulation.
* Massive increase in number of dynamic objects that the system can handle. Hundreds primitives -> Tens of thousands skinned and textured models.
* Support for instanced rendering of skinned robots.
* Support for fully detailed CAD line renderings in full resolution to better guide modelling engineers when building systems.
* Modern cascaded shadow mapping solution which fully envelops the scene in crisp shadows.
* Rasterization-based pixel perfect picking of objects in the scene vastly improving runtime performance when selecting objects.
* Modern surface shading much improving the visual aesthetics of the scene.

The project is now completed and Xcelgo is hard at work finishing the integration of the new rendering which should be complete in time for Experior 6.0.

After constructing the graph dynamic markings can be added and modified when needed. These marking is in the example meant to represent runners or bikers and are updated based on time and speed of the runner.

It is possible to register for events triggered when pressing dynamic markings or segments.

You can find an interactive demo here.

The visualization is crafted using THREE.JS and works in both canvas and webGL mode.

The tool was created for Sportstiming and funded by Forsknings og Innovationsstyrelsen.

– Visualise your data and learn the true meaning and value of your data for you, your organisation and your partners.
At the exclusive hands-on workshop on Big Data Visualisation we show you how your data can be transformed from a big list of symbols to visualisations that can be understood, interpreted and fed into decision processes. 4 keynote speakers will guide us through a day of hands-on work-stations covering:

1. Creating value from data through business models;
2. Mapping the interactions between data and use;
3. Creating beautiful and useful mock-ups of big data.

Each hands-on workstation will be manned by experts in the area, guiding the participants thorough a number of steps to develop a (1) Business Model Canvas, (2) Story Board about User Interactions and (3) Visualisation Mock-Up, based on your data and ideas.

Agenda

1000-1030 Welcome by Jesper Mosegaard and Mirko Presser
1030-1100 Marcelo Soria Rodriguez, BBVA “Financial Data Visualisation”
1100-1200 Workstations Round 1
1200-1300 Lunch
1300-1330 Børge Obel,  ICOA, “Organizations and Big Data”
1330-1430 Workstations Round 2
1430-1500 The City of Aarhus (TBA)
1500-1600 Workstations Round 3
1600-1630 Andreas Lykke-Olesen, Kollision, “Designing Interactive Communication”

The workshop will be held in Danish with some of the presentations in English. The attendance is limited to 30 persons with a first come first serve basis.

Sign-up

No later than the 23th of November 2012 on

http://viscomp.alexandra.dk/registration-for-big-data-visualization-workshop/

Venue

Wednesday 5th of December 2012
’Smedien’, Centralværkstedet
Værkmestergade 9
8000 Aarhus C

Click here to launch the demo. You need a recent chrome, firefox, safari (non iOS) or opera browser. Internet Explorer is not supported.

Use the keys “wasdqe” and the mouse to navigate and change between dataset in the right column.

This video demonstrates our real-time molecular visualization application written using OpenGL and GLSL. The video features three distinct visualizations: Stick-and-ball, Connolly surface and density plot. The application renders the molecule using image-based lighting combined with depth-of-field. Ambient occlusion and fog is further used to enhance the perception of depth. The Connolly surface can be dynamically recreated when changing the orbital or probe radius. When recreating the Connolly surface the ambient occlusion is dynamically updated. The density plot, which features five separate density fields, is composited onto the rasterized geometry using raymarching.

The application is part of a presentation which will be given at Symposium on Scientific Visualization held on September 25th – 26th, 2012 at The Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters in Copenhagen.

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http://www.digitalurbanliving.dk/projects/civic-communication/klimatrends-iphone-app-english.php

The climate trend app is an innovative and different way to keep up with news, opinions, emotions and environmental sensors before, under and after COP15, the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen (December 7-18, 2009).

The app is not simply a newsreader, a social network, a measuring apparatus or a game. It’s a bit of all of that, and more.

* The ocean level indicates the climate situation right now. The worse the situation, the higher the water level. The level is not an exact measure but a reflection of many impressions.
* The ice floes that emerge from below are opinions, articles and readings from CO2 sensors in Copenhagen.
* Tap an ice floe to investigate it further.
* If you are a Twitter user, you can influence the situation, both in the application and through other Twitter applications (by adding #jpcop15 in a tweet).
* You can follow other people and see what they think and how they feel right now about the climate situation.

The primary language in the app is danish. We have implemented both an OpenGL ES1.1 version and a OpenGL ES2.0 version.