Hannah Lord ’22 worked on updating the standard 3D terrain format to incorporate overhanging structures, such as natural arches, caves, and cliff protrusions. She then wrote a program that used computer graphics techniques to visualize the terrain modeled in the new format. Her work was presented on the poster “Editing DEM Files to Represent Overhanging Structures and Arches” at the 26^th Annual Consortium for Computing Sciences in Colleges Northeast Conference in April, 2022.

Eammon Littler, Jacob Loberti, and Matthew LeBlanc, all from the class of 2020, worked on a project to create 3D models of art objects in Wheaton’s African Collection.  Once the models were created, they can be viewed in three-dimensions on a web site as well as through the use of virtual reality (VR) equipment.  Their poster, “3D Modeling to Virtual Viewing: Providing Access to Wheaton’s African Collection,” was presented at the 23^rd Annual Consortium for Computing Sciences in Colleges Northeast Conference in April, 2018.

Grace Ulinski ’16 and Zevi Rubin ’16 rebuilt Melissa’s work (below) using newer web technologies.  They presented the poster, “Information Visualization: Top Ten Rankings over Time,” at the 20^th Annual Consortium for Computing Sciences in Colleges Northeast Conference in April, 2016.

Melissa Branagan ’14 worked on a new system for visualizing ranking data over many years.  This is interdisciplinary work that can benefit any researcher looking for trends in such data, from the yearly top ten actors to baseball batting averages. This work led to: “Visualizing the Hollywood Pantheon,” presented by John Grady at the Conference of the International Visual Sociology Association (IVSA) at the University of London in July, 2013.

Kelsey Hichens ’13 developed a working compiler for her own programming language called KLC.

Nick Faulconer ’12 wrote a Senior Thesis entitled Design and Comparison of Parallel Ray-Tracing Algorithms.  This work combines computer graphics and the evermore important parallel processing.  This is technology used in creating CGI in movies. Nick currently works for Meditech.

Raleigh Upshur ’10 implemented a virtual “magnifying glass” in a three-dimensional topographic surface viewer. This work will be incorporated into a larger system that helps researchers identify problem areas in digital maps. Raleigh presented his work in a poster at the April 2010 meeting of the Consortium for Computing Sciences in Colleges.

A group of students who graduated in ’07 implemented two systems in their Senior Seminar course to visualize social stratification data. My colleague and collaborator John Grady of Wheaton’s Sociology Department uses these systems to analyze data from the Census Bureau. This work was presented at the International Conference on Information Visualization in London in July of 2008 (see below).

Sarah Milewski ’07 helped to implement a DEM error visualization system. She worked on the graphical user interface (GUI) as well as some of the visualization code. The work resulted in a paper that was presented at the International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium in Barcelona in the summer of ’07. The paper was published in the conference proceedings (see below).  She currently works for Raytheon.

Chris Stuetzle ’07 completed an Honor’s Thesis entitled Computer Modeling and Visualization of Luminescent Crystals: The Role of Energy Transfer and Upconversion. He also presented a poster on the work at the Spring Meeting of the New England Section of the American Physical Society, Orono, ME, April 2007. John Collins of the Physics Department was co-advisor for this work. Chris finished his PhD in 2012 and is now at Merrimack College.

A student created a web-based visualization tool for analyzing census data. This work was presented at the 2004 International Visual Sociology Association conference in San Francisco by my collaborator, John Grady.