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A glassless stereoscopic visualization system for a 3D MHD real-time Earth's magnetosphere simulator

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 December 2006

MITSUE DEN ,
TAKUHITO KUWABARA ,
TOMOYA OGAWA ,
TAKASHI TANAKA ,
IGOR GONCHARENKO  and
HIROYOSHI AMO
MITSUE DEN
Affiliation:
National Institute for Fusion Science, Oroshi-cho 322-6, Toki 509-5292, Japan
TAKUHITO KUWABARA
Affiliation:
National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Nukuikita-machi 4-2-1, Koganei, Tokyo 184-8795, Japan
TOMOYA OGAWA
Affiliation:
National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Nukuikita-machi 4-2-1, Koganei, Tokyo 184-8795, Japan
TAKASHI TANAKA
Affiliation:
Department of Physics, Kyushu University, 6-10-1, Hakozaki, Higashi-ku, Fukuoka 812-8581, Japan CREST, Japan Science and Technology Agency
IGOR GONCHARENKO
Affiliation:
3D Incorporated, 1-1 Sakae, Kanagawa-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa 221-0052, Japan
HIROYOSHI AMO
Affiliation:
NEC Corporation, 2-7-17 Shiba, Minato-ku, Tokyo 105-0014, Japan
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Abstract

We have developed a glassless stereoscopic visualization system for the real-time numerical simulator of the interplanetary space–magnetosphere– ionosphere coupling system, adopting the three-dimensional (3D) magnetohydrodynamical (MHD) simulation code. Our real-time Earth's magnetosphere simulator numerically reproduces the global response of the magnetosphere and the ionosphere at the same time with the real world by using the real-time Solar wind data, and has shown two-dimensional (2D) figures of the global magnetosphere of about 1 hour in advance in virtual reality at every minute on Web since November 2003. We implemented 3D graphical techniques such as volume and iso-surface rendering for visualizing scalar variables and also colored 3D streamlines for representing the magnetic field for standard and glassless stereo-displays. A real-time interpolation method mapping the simulated data to structured uniform rectilinear grids commonly utilized in computer graphics was developed, so that this 3D visualization system is capable of monitoring the real-time Earth's magnetosphere simulated data in on-line mode.

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Journal of Plasma Physics , Volume 72 , Issue 6 , December 2006 , pp. 837 - 840
Copyright
2006 Cambridge University Press

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