Our CTO Frank Ham decided to spend an evening coding a browser-based flip-book player for flow visualization. Inspired by the LLNL "blockbuster" application designed for scientific visualization of large image sequences on power walls, this first prototype is just for your desktop, and runs in-browser using the html5 canvas and javascript. Basically, blockbuster allows you to open a collection of images output from your favorite visualization software and animate them, zooming in and out to better interrogate multi-scale details of the flow structure. The use of multiple image files rather than a single movie in a movie player allows you to ...
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