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Seeing the Difference between Cosmological Simulations
September/October 2008 (vol. 28 no. 5)
pp. 37-45
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Steve Haroz, Katrin Heitmann, "Seeing the Difference between Cosmological Simulations," IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, vol. 28, no. 5, pp. 37-45, September/October, 2008.
 
 
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@article{ 10.1109/MCG.2008.101,
author = {Steve Haroz and Katrin Heitmann},
title = {Seeing the Difference between Cosmological Simulations},
journal ={IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications},
volume = {28},
number = {5},
issn = {0272-1716},
year = {2008},
pages = {37-45},
doi = {http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/MCG.2008.101},
publisher = {IEEE Computer Society},
address = {Los Alamitos, CA, USA},
}
 
 
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PY - 2008
KW - Visualization applications
KW - cosmology
KW - uncertainty visualization
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Steve Haroz, University of California at Davis
Katrin Heitmann, Los Alamos National Laboratory
As cosmology simulations help us understand the universe, we must understand how the results of different simulations vary. Visualization and modern graphics hardware can now provide the ability to visually explore these differences interactively.

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Index Terms:
Visualization applications, cosmology, uncertainty visualization, parallel coordinates, vertex shader.
Citation:
Steve Haroz, Katrin Heitmann, "Seeing the Difference between Cosmological Simulations," IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, vol. 28, no. 5, pp. 37-45, Sep./Oct. 2008, doi:10.1109/MCG.2008.101
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