Image from Scientastic 2015; Photography © 2015 www.sandipde.com
Outreach is an important component of ACCES Members’ activities. ACCES serves as an interface with event organizers, aiding the coordination and contribution of its members, thus facilitating the presentation of the appropriate information to the general public.
Stereoscopic movies
Stereoscopy is one specific tool that may be a useful for outreach presentations. Stereoscopy enhances the depth-of-field information contained in images and animations of numerical simulation results. This is particularly useful for 3D images/animations containing a collection of particles (e.g. molecular dynamics, discrete element method) or streamlines (e.g. fluid dynamics).
As well as assisting in the scientific understanding of the underlying behaviour of complex engineering systems, stereoscopy is a useful tool for communication to the general public.
Stereoscopic movies can be viewed in different formats, for example:
- low-quality anaglyphs on a standard monitor (using red-cyan glasses)
- high-quality interleaved on a 3D television screen (e.g. in CoViz facility using polarized glasses)
Do not forget to control that the 3D mode is on and the resolution of the movie is set to the maximum available value. (Recommended browser: Chrome). If you do not have the appropriate stereoscopic viewing equipment, the movies can also be viewed in normal mode.
Scientastic 2015
The inaugural edition of the Scientastic event was organized by the School of Engineering, and was dedicated to energy research. It demonstrated to the general public a wide variety of activities related to reducing the consommation, inventing new storage methods and developing alternative energy solutions. ACCES combined with the NCCR MARVEL to present the contribution of numerical simulation to these activities.
The following carousel of stereoscopic movies presented at Scientastic 2015 are representative of energy research activities at the School of Engineering.
Contributions
The following stereoscopic movie clips (shown above) were presented at the Scientastic 2015 event:
- Design of new materials for ultrasound detection – Giovanni Pizzi (THEOS)
- Melting of an aluminium surface – Nicola Marzari (THEOS)
- Catalysis of methane on a nanostructured platinum surface – Nicola Marzari (THEOS)
- Safe solid electrolytes for lithium-ion batteries – Aris Marcolongo (THEOS)
- Movement of water molecules – Piero Gasparotto (COSMO)
- Crack propagation in crystalline magnesium – Zhaoxuan Wu (LAMMM)
- Crack-resistant silicon for lithium-ion batteries – Mostafa Khosrownejad (LAMMM)
- Free-surface flow in a Pelton water turbine – Christian Vessaz (LMH)
- Stability of the wake generated by a wind turbine – Francesco Viola (LFMI)
- Particle motion in a planetary ball mill – David Geissbühler, Mark Sawley (ACCES)
