From anderson at cs.ucdavis.edu Mon Jan 14 16:27:45 2008
From: anderson at cs.ucdavis.edu (John C. Anderson)
Date: Mon Jan 14 16:52:41 2008
Subject: [vis_contest_2008] MD5 Checksums
Message-ID: <15DF639C-5F76-4025-9ACF-4836F4049964@cs.ucdavis.edu>

Is it possible to post MD5 checksums of the data files?

Thanks in advance,
John C. Anderson
From taylorr at cs.unc.edu Mon Jan 14 17:00:31 2008
From: taylorr at cs.unc.edu (Russell M. Taylor II)
Date: Mon Jan 14 17:00:48 2008
Subject: [vis_contest_2008] MD5 Checksums
In-Reply-To: <15DF639C-5F76-4025-9ACF-4836F4049964@cs.ucdavis.edu>
References: <15DF639C-5F76-4025-9ACF-4836F4049964@cs.ucdavis.edu>
Message-ID: <200801142200.m0EM0m3I026626@fafnir.cs.unc.edu>

Great idea! I'm running them now for the first 30 time steps,
separately for the velocity files and the multifield files. They
will be in velocity.md5 and multifield.md5.

We'll run them on the rest of the 200 frames once we have the output formatted.
Russell

p.s. These are the sums on the gzip files.

At 04:27 PM 1/14/2008, John C. Anderson wrote:
>Is it possible to post MD5 checksums of the data files?
>
>Thanks in advance,
>John C. Anderson
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From taylorr at cs.unc.edu Tue Jan 15 14:38:19 2008
From: taylorr at cs.unc.edu (Russell M. Taylor II)
Date: Tue Jan 15 14:42:23 2008
Subject: [vis_contest_2008] Re: vis08 data set
In-Reply-To: <200801150652.WAA22277@sundance.cse.ucsc.edu>
References: <200801150652.WAA22277@sundance.cse.ucsc.edu>
Message-ID: <200801151942.m0FJgKog030031@fafnir.cs.unc.edu>

Alex,
We've had to rerun the simulation to get a few of the data
sets needed to answer the questions, and to reduce the size (believe
it or not, this is smaller than the original run). SDSC has been
good about giving us a special allocation, but we've only finished up
to time step 30 at this point.
We'll be putting the rest of the data up as soon as the
simulation completes and we've formatted it. I expect this to be up
and available via HTTP and FTP by the 21st.

Russell

At 01:52 AM 1/15/2008, Alex Pang wrote:

>hi russ,
>
>just started downloading the data set.
>it looks like there's only 30 time stamps
>(up to year 3805). i thought the simulation
>runs through year 25,370 years; with the
>reference images somewhere around 12.6kyears
>(figure c of data description).
>do you know when the rest may become available?
>thanks.
>
>alex

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From taylorr at cs.unc.edu Wed Jan 23 16:31:09 2008
From: taylorr at cs.unc.edu (Russell M. Taylor II)
Date: Wed Jan 23 16:43:12 2008
Subject: [vis_contest_2008] Z slice data set and animation available
Message-ID: <200801232143.m0NLh6LT004630@fafnir.cs.unc.edu>

A new data set that is a single Z slice through the data near the
middle is available for download on the web site. There is also an
animation showing the density variation through the data set
available for download on the Data description page.


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From a.albert at jacobs-university.de Sat Jan 26 13:22:13 2008
From: a.albert at jacobs-university.de (Adrian Albert)
Date: Sat Jan 26 13:29:40 2008
Subject: [vis_contest_2008] official start and end dates
Message-ID: <2cd88c320801261022t77b9dc6dra827fcbcd549d833@mail.gmail.com>

Dear Vis 2008 organizers,


I was wondering when the Vis 2008 competition is supposed to begin and when
its expected end date is. Is the information posted on the website subject
to major change? Is it just a draft so that potential competitors would get
a first idea, or is it rather final?
By late summer 2008, do you mean around mid-August as for the previous
years, or even later?

Thank you for your attention. Best regards,
Adrian Albert
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Adrian Albert
School of Engineering and Science
Jacobs University Bremen
Germany
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From amit at sdsc.edu Sat Jan 26 16:28:51 2008
From: amit at sdsc.edu (Amit Chourasia)
Date: Sat Jan 26 16:39:02 2008
Subject: [vis_contest_2008] official start and end dates
References: <2cd88c320801261022t77b9dc6dra827fcbcd549d833@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <452F37AE49199D49B1702D7D45038C4D8C278C@et.ad.sdsc.edu>

Adrian,

>I was wondering when the Vis 2008 competition is supposed to begin and when its expected end date is.
The contest has officially began. We are working on finalizing deadline, my initial estimate is that the deadline would be in first week of August.

>Is the information posted on the website subject to major change? Is it just a draft so that potential competitors would get
a first idea, or is it rather final?
This is the final draft of the competition, we dont expect any major changes unless something unforeseen happens.

Hope this helps and all the best for the contest.

Cheers
--Amit

-----Original Message-----
From: vis_contest_2008-bounces@cs.unc.edu on behalf of Adrian Albert
Sent: Sat 1/26/2008 10:22 AM
To: vis_contest_2008@cs.unc.edu
Subject: [vis_contest_2008] official start and end dates

Dear Vis 2008 organizers,


I was wondering when the Vis 2008 competition is supposed to begin and when
its expected end date is. Is the information posted on the website subject
to major change? Is it just a draft so that potential competitors would get
a first idea, or is it rather final?
By late summer 2008, do you mean around mid-August as for the previous
years, or even later?

Thank you for your attention. Best regards,
Adrian Albert
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Adrian Albert
School of Engineering and Science
Jacobs University Bremen
Germany


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From taylorr at cs.unc.edu Tue Feb 5 09:27:35 2008
From: taylorr at cs.unc.edu (Russell M. Taylor II)
Date: Tue Feb 5 09:55:07 2008
Subject: [vis_contest_2008] Deadline set for August 1st,
2D slice data set available.
Message-ID: <200802051455.m15Et4Wd007717@fafnir.cs.unc.edu>

The deadline for postmarking the contest submissions has been set for
August 1st.

Note also that there is a data set that has just a 2D slice for the
whole simulation time that can be downloaded and visualized more
quickly to give an idea of what the data set is.

Russell and Amit


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From amit at sdsc.edu Wed Jun 4 16:20:20 2008
From: amit at sdsc.edu (Amit Chourasia)
Date: Wed Jun 4 16:31:15 2008
Subject: [vis_contest_2008] 2008 IEEE Vis Design Contest
Message-ID: <452F37AE49199D49B1702D7D45038C4DE63B8A@et.ad.sdsc.edu>

Hello,

Thought I should send out a reminder now that we have approx. two months
for the deadline (Aug 1st) for the visualization contest. This should be
a fun and enriching project for summer undertaking or to polish if you
already have something working. We are looking forward to several
insightful and creative entries from you folks. So spread the word. Wish
you all the best and we'll see you in Columbus.

Cheers

--Amit Chourasia , Russell Taylor

2008 IEEE Visualization Design Contest

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From rborgo at comp.leeds.ac.uk Thu Jun 26 06:04:54 2008
From: rborgo at comp.leeds.ac.uk (R Borgo)
Date: Thu Jun 26 06:10:32 2008
Subject: [vis_contest_2008] Data Size
Message-ID: <486369C6.5010902@comp.leeds.ac.uk>

Dear all,

I have a question regarding the exact xyz dimension of the data,
I am assuming the x being 600 while y and z equal to 248.
I noticed though that on the Data Layout section of the Data Description
page
three different values are given, repectively: 249, 249, 999.
Which is the correct assumption then 600x248x248 or 249x249x999?

Cheers

Rita
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From amit at sdsc.edu Fri Jun 27 00:17:05 2008
From: amit at sdsc.edu (Amit Chourasia)
Date: Fri Jun 27 00:36:10 2008
Subject: [vis_contest_2008] Data Size
References: <486369C6.5010902@comp.leeds.ac.uk>
Message-ID: <452F37AE49199D49B1702D7D45038C4D8C28D4@et.ad.sdsc.edu>

Rita,

Good point.
The correct dimension is 600x248x248.
We'll fix the information on the webpage soon.

--Amit


-----Original Message-----
From: vis_contest_2008-bounces@cs.unc.edu on behalf of R Borgo
Sent: Thu 6/26/2008 3:04 AM
To: vis_contest_2008@cs.unc.edu
Subject: [vis_contest_2008] Data Size

Dear all,

I have a question regarding the exact xyz dimension of the data,
I am assuming the x being 600 while y and z equal to 248.
I noticed though that on the Data Layout section of the Data Description
page
three different values are given, repectively: 249, 249, 999.
Which is the correct assumption then 600x248x248 or 249x249x999?

Cheers

Rita


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From taylorr at cs.unc.edu Fri Jun 27 09:18:58 2008
From: taylorr at cs.unc.edu (Russell M. Taylor II)
Date: Fri Jun 27 09:19:05 2008
Subject: [vis_contest_2008] Data Size
In-Reply-To: <452F37AE49199D49B1702D7D45038C4D8C28D4@et.ad.sdsc.edu>
References: <486369C6.5010902@comp.leeds.ac.uk>
<452F37AE49199D49B1702D7D45038C4D8C28D4@et.ad.sdsc.edu>
Message-ID: <200806271319.m5RDJ19C022578@fafnir.cs.unc.edu>

Rita,
Good catch! This dimension was left over from a previous
version of the data set that we had been using before we got the
final version. The indices go from (0,0,0) to (599,247,247), to
match the rest of the description on that page. I've updated the web
page to make this consistent.
Looking forward to getting all the submissions!

Russell

At 12:17 AM 6/27/2008, Amit Chourasia wrote:
>Content-class: urn:content-classes:message
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>
>Rita,
>
>Good point.
>The correct dimension is 600x248x248.
>We'll fix the information on the webpage soon.
>
>--Amit
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: vis_contest_2008-bounces@cs.unc.edu on behalf of R Borgo
>Sent: Thu 6/26/2008 3:04 AM
>To: vis_contest_2008@cs.unc.edu
>Subject: [vis_contest_2008] Data Size
>
>Dear all,
>
>I have a question regarding the exact xyz dimension of the data,
>I am assuming the x being 600 while y and z equal to 248.
>I noticed though that on the Data Layout section of the Data Description
>page
>three different values are given, repectively: 249, 249, 999.
>Which is the correct assumption then 600x248x248 or 249x249x999?
>
>Cheers
>
>Rita
>
>
>_______________________________________________
>vis_contest_2008 mailing list
>vis_contest_2008@cs.unc.edu
>https://fafnir.cs.unc.edu/mailman/listinfo/vis_contest_2008

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From taylorr at cs.unc.edu Mon Jul 14 11:30:45 2008
From: taylorr at cs.unc.edu (Russell M. Taylor II)
Date: Mon Jul 14 11:38:13 2008
Subject: [vis_contest_2008] Re: Bug in velocity_to_curl_magnitude
In-Reply-To: <487B16A4.1020409@comp.leeds.ac.uk>
References: <487B16A4.1020409@comp.leeds.ac.uk>
Message-ID: <200807141538.m6EFcArk018364@fafnir.cs.unc.edu>

David,
Way to go! Indeed, the example source code had a
cut-and-paste error and did not compute curl magnitude according to
the equation given in the data description.

Contest Submitters,
This is entirely my fault. Thank you for pointing it out! I
apologize that we got so far into the contest before this got
fixed. I'm editing the file now and will put up a new version with
this change, and new images that match the new version, as soon as I can.

Russell

At 05:04 AM 7/14/2008, David Duke wrote:

>Russell, Amit,
>
>I believe there is a bug in the velocity_to_curl_magnitude code on
>the Vis contest website.
>
>The definition of the z-component of curl reads
>
>curl[2] = ( vel[x+1][y][z][1] - vel[x][y][z][2] - vel[x][y+1][z][0]
>+ vel[x][y][z][0] ) / 0.001;
>
>I believe the second term should be "vel[x][y][z][1]", i.e. vy(i,j,k)
>
> regards,
> David
>
>
>--
>Dr. David Duke Email: djd@comp.leeds.ac.uk
>School of Computing Web: www.comp.leeds.ac.uk/djd/
>University of Leeds Tel: +44 113 343 6800
>Leeds, LS2 9JT, U.K. Fax: +44 113 343 5468

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From taylorr at cs.unc.edu Mon Jul 14 11:55:58 2008
From: taylorr at cs.unc.edu (Russell M. Taylor II)
Date: Mon Jul 14 11:56:11 2008
Subject: [vis_contest_2008] New curl-magnitude sample program and image
uploaded
Message-ID: <200807141556.m6EFu9wN026373@fafnir.cs.unc.edu>

I apologize again for the mistake in the curl-magnitude example
program. A new program and the (quite different) example image are
available on the Data page.

Happy Visualizing!
Russell


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From taylorr at cs.unc.edu Sat Aug 2 11:15:59 2008
From: taylorr at cs.unc.edu (Russell M. Taylor II)
Date: Sat Aug 2 11:16:04 2008
Subject: [vis_contest_2008] Please let us know if you've sent a submission
Message-ID: <200808021516.m72FFxfU026619@fafnir.cs.unc.edu>

Teams,
Please send us an email to let us know if you've sent a
submission, so that we can be on the look out for it and wait until
it arrives before we start judging.
We've already heard from one team, and look forward to all
of your submissions!

Russell & Amit


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