The National Science Foundation and the Popular Science Magazine have announced that “Beautiful Chemistry” won the Expert’s Choice Award for Video at the 2015 Visualization Challenge, known as Vizzies. According to the Popular Science Magazine, For many, the phrase “chemical reactions” conjures memories of tedious laboratory work and equations scribbled on exams. But Yan Liang, […]
Two High-Adventure Science online curriculum lessons are now available on the National Geographic Education website. High-Adventure Science lessons explore questions such as “What is the future of Earth’s climate?” and “What are our energy choices?” and include interactive systems models and real-world data.
Join the Innovative Technology in Science Inquiry (ITSI) team on February 17 for an hour of stimulating chat on using ITSI models in science inquiry activities. Members of our Professional Learning Community will introduce you to model activities, answer your questions about using the ITSI tools and share updates on the new HTML5 format.
Figure 1With the releases of two competitively priced IR cameras for smartphones, the year 2014 has become a milestone for IR imaging. Early in 2014, FLIR unveiled the $349 FLIR ONE, the first IR camera that can be attached to an iPhone. Months later, …
Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) is an important research method that uses numerical algorithms to solve and analyze problems that involve fluid flows. Computers are used to perform the calculations required to simulate the interaction of liquids and…
In the year 2014, Energy2Dhas incorporated a radiation simulation engine and a particle simulation engine, expanding its modeling capacity and making it a truly multiphysics simulation package. To celebrate the New Year, I made some simulations that…
Unconditionally stable solvers for time-dependent ordinary or partial differential equations are desirable in game development because they are highly resilient to player actions — they never “blow up.” In the entertainment industry, unconditionally stable solvers for creating visual fluid effects (e.g., flow, smoke, or fire) in games and movies were popularized by Jos Stam’s 1999 […]
Two recently published Springer books have featured our visual simulation software, indicating perhaps that their broader impacts beyond their originally intended audiences (earlier I have blogged about the publication of the first scientific paper tha…
The November issue of the Remote Sensing of Environment published a research article “Magma emission rates from shallow submarine eruptions using airborne thermal imaging” by a team of Spanish scientists in collaboration with Italian and American scientists. The researchers used airborne infrared cameras to monitor the 2011–2012 submarine volcanic eruption at El Hierro, Canary Islands […]
Energy3D supports the design of some basic architectural styles commonly seen in New England, such as Colonial and Cape Cod. Its simple 3D user interface allows users to quickly sketch up a house with an aesthetically pleasing look — with only mouse c…