Hultquist, Carl and Perumal, Sameshan and Marais, Patrick and Fairall, Tony (2003) Large-Scale Structure in the Universe, CS03-16-00, Department of Computer Science, University of Cape Town.
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Abstract
Cosmologists are currently researching the theory of large-scale structures, which are in essence groups of neighbouring galaxies. Recent “galaxy-hunts” have resulted in data for hundreds of thousands of galaxies being made publicly available, and it has become infeasible to isolate large-scale structures by hand from this data. Furthermore, it is difficult for cosmologists to visualise such structures by simply observing the galaxies that comprise the structure; they need a graphically rendered system in which they can change their viewpoint and observe the structure from any position desired. We present a system that identifies large-scale structures from datasets of galaxy information, and then displays the data using OpenGL in such a way that the user can “fly” through space in realtime, observing not only a single structure but the entire dataset and how structures are positioned relative to each other.
| Item Type: | Technical report |
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| Subjects: | Computing methodologies > Computer graphics Applied computing > Physical sciences and engineering Computing methodologies > Modeling and simulation |
| Date Deposited: | 10 Oct 2003 |
| Last Modified: | 10 Oct 2019 15:36 |
| URI: | http://pubs.cs.uct.ac.za/id/eprint/74 |
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