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The key to insight is coupling the power of the computer with unique skills of the human. At Sandia National Laboratories’ Interaction Laboratory, we call this teraflop visualization. We are concentrating research in three main areas: 1) using the computer as a facility for authoring content, 2) adding the physics to model real behaviors, and 3) allowing the human to utilize the improved precision and resolution provided by this new class of compute power.
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Breckenridge, A.R. (1998). Teraflop Visualization. In: Göbel, M., Landauer, J., Lang, U., Wapler, M. (eds) Virtual Environments ’98. Eurographics. Springer, Vienna. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7091-7519-4_3
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