IDL Allows Los Alamos National Lab to Visualize Complex Atomic Physics Data
IDL Allows Los Alamos National Lab to Visualize Complex Atomic Physics Data
2 PagesIDL Allows Los Alamos National Lab to Visualize Complex Atomic Physics Data Customer Challenge The Atomic and Optical Theory (T-4) group at Los Alamos National Laboratory generates gigabytes of data using a number of opacity codes that calculate the absorption of radiation by materials under various physical conditions. Physicists on the team needed a way to organize data from the output code so it could be easily interpreted, allowing them to diagnose errors in the data generation and subsequently improve the physics models. . Solution Achieved To help the team solve their data visualization challenge, Leslie Welser-Sherrill built what is now called OVID (Opacity Visualization in Detail), a visualization tool designed to investigate the various physical quantities of the output from opac
