Visualization Projects
Projects on this page represent a selection of the work of multiple departments.
Beavers: Ecosystem Engineers on Campus
An immersive exhibit about urban beavers and the ecological benefits they provide, including on the NC State campus.
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Contributing departments: Open Knowledge Center, Digital Library Initiatives (DLI)
Visualization Spaces Development Kit for Unity Game Engine
Augmenting an industry-standard creative tool to better suit the needs of our students, instructors, researchers, and other campus creators in a one-of-a-kind Libraries space.
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Contributing departments: Collections & Research Engagement, Learning Spaces & Services
Aquarium: Ambient Experience for Large Displays
"Aquarium" is a virtual oasis of tranquility designed for the Libraries' numerous immersive media showcase spaces, including the Cyma Rubin Visualization Gallery and Teaching & Visualization Lab. This demonstration offers visitors a dynamic and soothing environment that transports them to an underwater world full of vibrant marine life. "Aquarium" utilizes the Visualization Gallery Development Kit (visSDK) for presentation in our high-tech spaces.
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Contributing departments: Learning Spaces & Services
Showcasing Student Creativity via Holograms
To exhibit student and campus community creativity, the Libraries' Virtual Reality staff have utilized 3D digital displays (or 'holograms') within our buildings. These light field displays allow a better understanding of the creativity, scholarship, and interaction possible via natively 3D media.
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Contributing departments: Learning Spaces & Services
Beyond the Barricades, Reimagined
This project offers a reimagined visualization of anti-apartheid photography published during the heights of state brutality in South Africa. Utilizing the Visualization Studio at the Hill Library, viewers may wander in this digital exhibition to see and experience the memory of apartheid through stories of South African resistance.
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Contributing departments: Collections & Research Engagement
Collatz Conjecture
An immersive exhibit and exploration of the Collatz Conjecture—a simple mathematical sequence that is unsolvable.
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Contributing departments: Digital Library Initiatives (DLI)
Empowering Undergraduate Research and Educational Experience with Data Science
Librarians in the Data & Visualization Services department partnered with researchers in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering to develop interactive data science instructional materials for a grant funded online educational module.
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Contributing departments: Data Science Services
Optimal Routing for Parking Enforcement Vehicles
The City of Raleigh has begun using trucks outfitted with License Plate Recognition (LPR) equipment to streamline parking enforcement. Finding optimal routes for the trucks to evenly and efficiently traverse three sections of city streets that have curbside parking has been a challenge, so the city partnered with an NC State Industrial Engineering class to work on solutions as a Senior class project. When IE student Matt McMillan started looking at software options for solving vehicle routing…
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Contributing departments: Data Science Services
Tally Tracker Explorer
Tally Tracker Explorer is a visualization depicting live and archived game data from all players in Tally Saves the Internet, a browser extension that transforms the data that advertisers collect into a multiplayer game. It was designed by Joelle Dietrick and Owen Mundy of Sneakaway Studio as part of the NC State University Libraries' Immersive Scholar grant, with funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
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Contributing departments: Open Knowledge Center, Data Science Services
Extracting Air Pollution Data for Coastal Recreation Sites
Many people spend time doing leisure activities such as swimming, running, and fishing along coastal shorelines and could be interested in knowing the amount of air pollution that exists in these marine environments. Ph.D. Economics graduate student Yiqing (Elaine) Liu's work is to study the economic impact of air pollution on coastal recreation activities. She found monthly particulate matter air pollution raster data that is generated by researchers at Dalhousie University* for the entire…
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Contributing departments: Data Science Services
Visualizing Co-Authorship
We used free software to create an interactive packed circle chart visualizing Chemistry department co-authorship with other NC State departments.
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Contributing departments: Data Science Services
Tess-Celestial
Tess-Celestial is a visualization project that explores the interplay of art, nature, culture, shape, perspective, and math in our everyday lives.
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Contributing departments: Data Science Services, Open Knowledge Center
Exploring the Ethics of Autonomous Vehicles through Immersive Virtual Reality in the Cyma Rubin Visualization Gallery
The NC State University NeuroComputational Ethics Research Group (NCERG) and Libraries staff have combined experimental philosophy with immersive virtual reality technologies in the Cyma Rubin Visualization Gallery to capture research participants’ moral intuitions when presented with traffic scenarios containing ethical dilemmas. These insights aim to inform the development of ethical frameworks for future fully autonomous vehicles.
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Contributing departments: Collections & Research Engagement, Learning Spaces & Services
Virtual Martin Luther King, Jr. Project (vMLK)
The Virtual MLK Project is an immersive digital experience of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s "A Creative Protest (Fill Up the Jails)" speech which was delivered at White Rock Baptist Church in Durham, NC in February 1960. The project is displayed in virtual reality, large scale video walls, immersive audio, and a simulation experience.
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Contributing departments: Collections & Research Engagement, Community Engagement, Information Technology, Learning Spaces & Services, Open Knowledge Center
Front Pages
Front Pages dynamically displays the front page of newspapers from around the world.
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Contributing departments: Information TechnologyHunt Color Wall
The Hunt Library Color Wall is a digital representation of D. H. Hill Jr. Library’s Color Wall, an art sculpture by Joe Cox.
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Contributing departments: Information Technology
Code+Art
Code+Art brings together creative and computational thinking to bring digital art to the library’s visualization spaces.
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Contributing departments: Digital Library Initiatives (DLI)