Proceedings of the conference on Visualization '01
Proceedings of the conference on Visualization '02
SIGGRAPH '84 Proceedings of the 11th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques
A Parallel Visualization Pipeline for Terascale Earthquake Simulations
Proceedings of the 2004 ACM/IEEE conference on Supercomputing
Toward Measuring Visualization Insight
IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications
Understanding earthquakes with advanced visualization
ACM SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics - Visual Research, Evaluation and Assessment in the Age of Computer Graphics
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This study focuses on the visualization of a series of large earthquake simulations, collectively called TeraShake. The simulation series aims to assess the impact of Southern San Andreas Fault earthquake scenarios on Southern California. The authors discuss the role of visualization in gaining scientific insight and aiding unexpected discovery. Examples include significant differences in the ground motion pattern for different rupture directions; wave-guide effects leading to strong, localized amplification; variation in rupture speed for a spontaneous rupture model; and a star-burst pattern, indicating an unusual radiation of energy. The authors also cite instances of how visualization helped in finding numerical instabilities, leading to the use alternate absorbing boundary conditions for the wave propagation code. Without the sophisticated level of visualization carried out for the TeraShake, important scientific results would have remained undiscovered or less clearly understood. Moreover, some of the visualizations provide invaluable instructional material on earthquake phenomena to the public.