Scientific Visualization

I am involved with visualization since 1995. In those pages you will find material, experience and resources deriving from this work.

General visualization resources: An introduction to visualization in ten slides and in an interview . A list of tools to getting started with visualization. Material and ideas around Art and Visualization. Do not forget my book : Introduzione alla Visualizzazione Scientifica.

Chemistry Visualization resources: STM4 ChemViz platform. A list of free ChemViz tools. A study about representation in chemistry with a small collection of visualization errors in ChemViz. The Perfect Tool Project tried to cover what should be needed to make chemistry visualization tools more usable. The CrystalFp library that had contributed to a paper published on Nature.

Visual communication resources: Final product preparation (video, images, …). Visualization on the Web. And a small collection of (un)informative images.

AVS & AVS/Express resources: AVS/Express tutorial. You should remember that STM4 is built on top of AVS/Express.

Scientific data, “Big Data” and other amenities

Scientific Data Management resources: This theme is the basis for an ordered discovery process in which visualization is an important piece. Here is an introduction to SDM and my DescEditor, a file collection management tool.

Other work related things

The canonical publication list (ordered by year). My ORCID: 0000-0002-6644-1533 and ResearchID: C-3691-2013 identifiers. Pages about talks & teaching activities. If you need them, here are a short bio, my CV and my contact details. Almost forgot, my group at CSCS is called Scientific Community Engagement.

During the move to CSCS I collected my thinking about moving from industry to academia that you could find interesting.

Montessori’s ideas, science and supercomputers

Maria Montessori ideas and her method are not something from the 19^th century, something old and dusty. They have sound scientific basis and I continue to find commonalities between these ideas and my work with scientists and supercomputers. You can find few examples in the slides: “Montessori through the eyes of a scientist”.

I have collected various ideas from the Montessori’s world.

Can we learn something from computational scientist’s work? Something that can reconcile mathematics and school?

Few considerations over technology, digital natives, scientists and Montessori method in my talk: “More is Different – Parola di nativo digitale… e di Premio Nobel”.

Due to the audience, almost all material is in Italian, but I started translating part of it in English.

Here, you can find the list of past and future talks about Montessori.

Other projects

Selectome, looking for Darwinian Evolution in the Tree of Life.

MOD3D: 3D reconstruction from movies is an old Computer Vision project of which I’m particularly proud.

OMEGA: Open Microscopy Environment inteGrated Analysis.

CrystalFp: The Crystal Fingerprinting method.