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November 10, 2006 AppliedVis 2006

AppliedVis 2006 Projecting a Brighter Future for Western North Carolina


Scientific VisualizationScientific Visualizationandand

Digital Effects Production Digital Effects Production PipelinesPipelines

Stewart Dickson

NOAA

National Climatic Data Center




How Does an Effects Movie Get Made?

• A Visionary Communicates a Vision

to a Production Crew




The Visionary

ProductionCrew

TheVision

How Does a Movie Get Made?

• A VISIONARY Communicates a Vision





Directorial

StorySupervision

Script Art

ShotBreakdown

Concept

Story Board

ProductionCrew

TheVision

The VISIONARY




Shot Breakdown -> The Storyboard

Act I

Act II

Act III

Sequence 1

Sequence 6

. . .

Sequence 7

Sequence 12

Sequence 13

. . .

Sequence 18

Scene 1.100:00:00

Time

00:00:15

Scene 6.1

. . .

Scene 7.1

Scene 7.2

. . .

. . .

00:29:01

01:10:59

00:28:34

00:29:05

00:33:29

01:05:29

01:25:09

01:14:55

01:19:25

Scene 12.1

Scene 13.1

. . .

Scene 18.1




Story

Script Art

ShotBreakdown

Concept

Story Board

The VISION

ProductionCrewCharacters

Props

Sets

Environments

Lights

Cameras

EFX

Scene X.y

Editing




How Does a Scientific Movie Get Made?

• A Scientist Makes an Important Discovery

• Scientists are Really Bad at * Communicating a Vision

• A Visionary Communicates the Vision





Story

Script Art

ShotBreakdown

Concept

Story Board

The VISION

ProductionCrewEnvironment

Data Source 1

Data Source 2

Data Source 3

Lights

Cameras

EFX

Scene

Editing

The Discovery




Current Climate Visualization Production Pipeline

1. Collaborate with those who understand the climate trend

2. Identify the spatial and temporal ranges for the trend3. Obtain necessary model or historical data for

visualizing the trend4. Determine appropriate rendering technique per data

type5. Build the digital scene, Develop the Story6. Rendering and final editing




1. Collaborate with those who understand the climate trend

• An intermediary translates between the scientists and the artists

• Understanding is converted to narrative• The script produces narration, voiceover, audio

track• The shot list and storyboard are delivered to the

production crew




2. Identify the spatial and temporal ranges for the trend

• Spatial (Longitude-Latitude)

• Temporal (Date/Time)

• Prediction model or historical database gives this information.




3. Obtain necessary model or historical data for visualizing the

trendA. GIS layers -- “Environment” -- ContextB. GOES BAND 1 IR SatelliteC. Fixed Weather StationD. Moored BuoyE. River GageF. NEXRAD Level-IIG. Model Data, Historical Weather Event Data




4. Determine appropriate rendering technique per data type

• Vector Field, “Weather Vanes”, Streamlines

• Iso-Surfaces, Volume Rendering

• Color-Mapped Scalar-Valued Surfaces

• Binary Image-Mapped Surfaces




5. Build the digital scene, Develop the Story

• Plan the Shots [Storyboard]• Select camera position• Work on the Story-Telling• Iterate with the scientific and outreach groups • Develop the communication toward popular

understanding of the science.




6. Rendering and final editing

• Inter-cut elements from different visualization software sources

• Two-Dimensional Compositing and Effects

• Add titles, narration, additional explanatory elements




Future WorkScientific Visualization

• Discovery-to-Vision -- Weak Link

• Put the Story ahead of the Data

• The Data serves the Story– Not the other way around

Create the Story Development methodology for communicating about climate and the weather

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