OpenSpace: A System for Astrographics
OpenSpace: A System for Astrographics
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DOI：
10.1109/tvcg.2019.2934259
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发表时间：
2020-01
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5.2
通讯作者：
A. Bock;A. Ynnerman;Emil Axelsson;J. Costa;Gene Payne;M. Acinapura;V. Trakinski;C. Emmart
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作者：
A. Bock;A. Ynnerman;Emil Axelsson;J. Costa;Gene Payne;M. Acinapura;V. Trakinski;C. Emmart
随着工具和模拟的产生新的数据，支持理论形成和对宇宙的广泛和复杂性的理解，人类对宇宙的知识正在迅速增加。 OpenSpace是一个软件系统，其使命是提供所有这些数据源的综合视图，并支持从毫米量表中对已知宇宙的交互式探索，显示了航天器上的仪器，以便在可视化早期宇宙时向数十亿光年的探索。雄心勃勃是为了支持天文学和太空探索的研究，博物馆和天文馆的科学沟通，以及将探索性的天文学家带到教室。在达到此目标时，需要面临许多挑战，例如数据的多样性，多个时空尺度，协作能力等。此外，该系统必须具有灵活性和模块化，以启用快速的原型和纳入新的研究结果或空间任务数据，从而缩短了从发现到消散的时间。为了支持不同的用例，系统必须是硬件不可知论，并支持一系列平台和交互范例。在本文中，我们描述了Openspace在开源工作中如何应对这些挑战，这为下一代互动式的天文学铺平了道路。
Human knowledge about the cosmos is rapidly increasing as instruments and simulations are generating new data supporting the formation of theory and understanding of the vastness and complexity of the universe. OpenSpace is a software system that takes on the mission of providing an integrated view of all these sources of data and supports interactive exploration of the known universe from the millimeter scale showing instruments on spacecrafts to billions of light years when visualizing the early universe. The ambition is to support research in astronomy and space exploration, science communication at museums and in planetariums as well as bringing exploratory astrographics to the class room. There is a multitude of challenges that need to be met in reaching this goal such as the data variety, multiple spatio-temporal scales, collaboration capabilities, etc. Furthermore, the system has to be flexible and modular to enable rapid prototyping and inclusion of new research results or space mission data and thereby shorten the time from discovery to dissemination. To support the different use cases the system has to be hardware agnostic and support a range of platforms and interaction paradigms. In this paper we describe how OpenSpace meets these challenges in an open source effort that is paving the path for the next generation of interactive astrographics.