About Me

I am a research software engineer specialising in graphics programming, GPU and HPC programming, python and jupyter notebooks. I have particular interest in the applications of 3D Graphics and literate programming to scientific and data visualisation and building customisable research environments and pipelines based on the jupyter/python ecosystem, also the application of these technologies for wider research and creative communities.

Interactive WebGL output from LavaVu : brain connectivity network

Visualisation

A few bits and pieces that are viewable online or have associated articles/press/publications:

• Mars Oceans Visualisation playing around with open data, GLSL shader flooding the Martian planet surface with topography created from public domain data obtained from the USGS Astrogeology Science Center.
• Cyclone Debbie wind tracers over Great Barrier Reef, data from eReefs open data read from NCI thredds catalogue.
• Created this brain connectivity 3d model to assist with Dr. Nicholas Mangan’s “Termite Economies”
• Virtual reality and drones could unlock secrets about the mysterious Plain of Jars in Laos
• LAWLESS – The Real Bushrangers - Worked on vis for 2 episodes, Photo: filming visualisation in the CAVE2 here
• LavaVu WebGL demo page
• LavaVu readme
• Some old LavaVu/gLucifer in action: video vis by L. Moresi
• ShareVol demo page
• The original kookaburra WebGL model
• Geothermal modelling, created 3d visualisations Multi Basin 3D PDF of Latrobe, Cooper, Gunnedah
• Latrobe Valley - early 3d model work

Volume Rendering with LavaVR in the Monash CAVE2

Publications

I assisted with these papers, usually by providing visualisation related contributions, the authors were kind enough to add me as a co-author:

• Mantle plume dynamics at the rear of a retreating slab
• UWGeodynamics: A teaching and research tool for numerical geodynamic modelling
• Benchmark of three-dimensional numerical models of subduction against a laboratory experiment
• Line of fire - what happened at the Wantabadgery seige?
• Large-scale comparative visualisation of sets of multidimensional data
• Stereoscopic space map – semi-immersive configuration of 3D-stereoscopic tours in multi-display environments
• An interactive three dimensional approach to anatomical description—the jaw musculature of the Australian laughing kookaburra (Dacelo novaeguineae)
• The multi-modal Australian ScienceS Imaging and Visualization Environment (MASSIVE) high performance computing infrastructure: applications in neuroscience and neuroinformatics research

Demo of LavaVu Jupyter Notebook integration

Posters and Talks

Presentations where I was the/a primary contributor:

• AGU Fall Meeting 2019 Applications of Big Data and High-Performance Computing in Earth Sciences “The IPython/Jupyter Scientific Visualisation Lanscape”
• CUG Big Data Geosciences workshop 2019 Poster “IPython Visualisations Workflows with LavaVu”
• eResearch 2018 “Scalable Research Data Visualisation Workflows: From Web to HPC”
• MPSEED Kunming, Yunnan, China, 2018 “Cloud, CAVE, Python and Web: Recipes for Visualising Increasing Data Volumes”
• DataTas 17/10/2017, IMAS Hobart “3D Visualisation in IPython with LavaVu: A python module for 4D visualisation with interactive IPython notebook integration”
• Monash eResearch Presentation “Visualisation in IPython with LavaVu”
• International Conference on Big Data in Geosciences 1/2017 Haikou, Hainan, China “Visualisation: From Cloud to CAVE - Visualisation at Monash e-Research: including CAVE2 Virtual Reality and OpenStack cloud resources”
• OzViz 2013, Accelerated Computing Workshop “Paths to accelerated graphics and computation from web apps”
• ISMRM 2013 Poster Fast Diffusion-Guided QSM Using Graphical Processing Units poster_pdf
• OzViz 2012, Accelerated Computing Workshop “Accelerating Diffusion-guided Quantitative Susceptibility Mapping with OpenCL”
• OzViz 2009 “Exploring the Underworld with gLucifer https://camo.githubusercontent.com/6c64130ce4a5f3ad5ef5a12e8504ddcd26b93746ef4acb0519f0f0847c2200c5/687474703a2f2f6f77656e2e6b616c757a612e69642e61752f536c696465732f323031372d30382d31352f4c61766156752e706e67

Vessel Segmentation from noisy CT data

Software

• I am the author of the LavaVu visualisation library
• I contributed visualisation and sampling code to the Underworld geodynamic modelling code
• LavaVR is an OmegaLib module providing LavaVu vis output in immersive 3D VR environments (eg: CAVE2)
• ShareVol is a single page WebGL volume renderer for sharing/visualising volume data
• Fractured is a WebGL fractal renderer in a single page web app

"Corymbia" A fractal generated work from "Rise, Set, Ebb, Flow, Breathe, Grow"

Art

• 2016 Digital Exhibition Monash Library Article
• Old work on Redbubble from 2007
• Fractured - A Fractal Art Studio

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