1. Science, Data, & Art in the Imax Film “Hubble 3D” Frank Summers, Greg Bacon, Lisa Frattare, Zolt Levay Space Telescope Science Institute January 21, 2010

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3. 3 H3D Scientific Visualizations STScI – Baltimore, MD –Summers, Bacon, Frattare, Levay NCSA – Champaign, IL –Donna Cox & team SSC – Pasadena, CA –Robert Hurt Imax – Toronto, ON, Canada –Toni Myers, director

4. 4 Imax 3D Large format film –23 million pixels/frame –Left and right eye –24 frames/sec –66 billion pixels/min Imax considerations – visual immersion – slow movement – low sweet spot

5. 5 H3D Scientific Visualizations Milky Way to Virgo Cluster to HUDF to Cosmic Web Servicing Mission 4 Early Release Observations Orion Nebula Hubble Iconic Images

6. 6 Milky Way to Virgo Cluster

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10. 10 “Runaway Universe”, PBS NOVA

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16. 16 NCSA

17. 17 Highlight Galaxies

18. 18 Template Galaxies

19. 19 Hubble Ultra Deep Field

20. 20 Hubble: Galaxies Across Space and Time Best Short Film 2004 Large Format Cinema Association

21. 21 GOODS - Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey

22. 22 HUDF GOODS - Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey

23. 23 HUDF

24. 24 Galaxy Cut-outs Source extractor Segmentation maps Individual galaxy images Cleaning 3D model

25. 25 HUDF

26. 26 Galaxy 16999 Cut-out Segmentation Map Feathered Cut-out Isolate Galaxies

27. 27 Galaxy Cleaning

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30. 30 Data Pipeline Culling, cross match (perl) Crop, clean, alpha (perl, IRAF, C) Galaxy Images Redshift Source Data Image Source Data Source Segmentation Map Hubble Images Galaxy Data Redshift Source Data Image Source Data Galaxy Data Redshift Source Data Image Source Data

31. 31 Data to Visualization Galaxy Data 3D modelling (perl) MEL Scripts Galaxy Images Maya

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39. 39 Servicing Mission 4 Early Release Observations

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57. 57 Synthetic Stars Star database –Position, brightness, color, etc –Multiple wavelengths HST point spread function Press release image as reference Globular cluster density profile

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61. 61 Orion Nebula

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75. 75 protoplanetary disk

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77. 77 Hubble Iconic Images

78. 78 Hubble’s Iconic Images

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