Renaissance Computing Institute

RENCI Resources

Visualization Resources

RENCI at Europa Center

RENCI at NC State University

RENCI at UNC Chapel Hill

RENCI at Duke University

RENCI at ECU

RENCI at UNC Asheville

RENCI at UNC Charlotte

RENCI at UNC HSL

RENCI at UNC Charlotte Resources

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RENCI at UNC Charlotte, in collaboration with the Charlotte Visualization Center, provides visual analytics capabilities for research. The center, founded and directed by Dr. William Ribarsky, is an interdisciplinary research entity established to develop and promote advance interactive visualization as an integrative discipline. It has 37 faculty members from a variety of disciplines.

The Visualization Center, located in the College of Computing and Informatics building on the campus of UNC Charlotte, provides laboratories, student and faculty offices, public demonstration areas, and collaboration environments.

The Visualization Center features:

Dozens of workstations providing Macintosh servers, high-end graphics PCs running both Linux and Windows
Large scale servers with up to 6 TB of RAID disk
Command Center
The Renaissance Situation Room

Command Center

High resolution, multi-screen stereoscopic display
Vertical immersive displays
Multiple ultra-high resolution LCD displays
Tracking devices with 6 DOF electromagnetic sensors, including gloves, 3D mice, and pointing devices
Wireless tracking system that uses both infrared and visible light

Renaissance Situation Room
The Renaissance Situation Room is a new, heterogeneous collaborative research environment that provides visual analysis of models, simulations and real-time data.

Interactive, high-resolution and stereoscopic display systems
Multi-user touch-sensitive surfaces
High resolution display wall, mini-HIPerWall with total pixel capacity of 36,000,000 pixels
Multi-point table tracking and desktop displays
3D stereoscopic viewing with 6 degree of freedom tracking including Vicom multi-hand and object tracking