On May 21st, we hosted the second instalment of our Vistle workshop series at the High-Performance Computing Center Stuttgart (HLRS) offering participants a practical introduction to 3D scientific visualization. As the third in our series of CEEC community workshops, this two-hour, on-site session gave attendees hands-on experience with Vistle—an open-source tool designed for creating interactive, modular visualizations of complex datasets.
The workshop began with a guided tour and demonstration in the HLRS CAVE, an immersive virtual reality environment housed in the HLRS Visualization Lab. Inside this 2.7-meter cube, participants wearing 3D glasses experienced high-resolution 3D projections of complex scientific datasets displayed on the walls, ceiling, and floor. The demonstration showcased how the CAVE’s interactive capabilities—such as real-time parameter adjustment and multi-scale zoom—enable researchers to explore and analyze data in collaborative, virtual settings.
Following the tour, we introduced attendees to Vistle’s core features and workflow, and then started the hands-on segment – walking them through building their own custom visualizations, both for desktop environments and within virtual reality. Along with the importance of periodically saving one’s work, attendees took home valuable experience and practice materials to help solidify their new knowledge.
Although we can’t truly offer you the same experience as our on-site attendees, we’re able to share the workshop video, slides, and online practice materials below.