Wildfire

The ability to forecast the progress of crisis events would significantly reduce human suffering and loss of life, the destruction of property, and expenditures
for assessment and recovery. Los Alamos National Laboratory has established
a scientific thrust in crisis forecasting to address this national challenge. In the initial phase of this project, scientists at Los Alamos are developing computer models to predict the spread of a wildfire. Visualization of the results of the wildfire simulation will be used by scientists to assess the quality of the simulation and eventually by fire personnel as a visual forecast of the wildfire's evolution. The fire personnel and scientists want the visualization to look as realistic as possible without compromising scientific accuracy. A paper describes how the visualization was created, analyzes the tools and approach that was used, and suggests directions for future work and research.

Wildfire Movie

TRex  

Parallel VTK  

Viz Clusters  

Flow  

Query ("Qviz")  

VIF  

POPTEX

LUX  

TERA  

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