Science, Data, & Art in the Imax Film “Hubble 3D”

Frank Summers, Greg Bacon,Lisa Frattare, Zolt Levay

Space Telescope Science InstituteJanuary 21, 2010

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H3D Scientific Visualizations

• STScI – Baltimore, MD– Summers, Bacon, Frattare, Levay

• NCSA – Champaign, IL– Donna Cox & team

• SSC – Pasadena, CA– Robert Hurt

• Imax – Toronto, ON, Canada– Toni Myers, director

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Imax 3D• Large format film

– 23 million pixels/frame– Left and right eye– 24 frames/sec– 66 billion pixels/min

• Imax considerations– visual immersion– slow movement– low sweet spot

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H3D Scientific Visualizations

• Milky Way to Virgo Cluster to HUDF to Cosmic Web

• Servicing Mission 4 Early Release Observations

• Orion Nebula

• Hubble Iconic Images

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Milky Way to Virgo Cluster

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10“Runaway Universe”, PBS NOVA

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Highlight Galaxies

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Template Galaxies

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Hubble Ultra Deep Field

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Hubble: Galaxies Across Space and Time

Best Short Film 2004Large Format

Cinema Association

21GOODS - Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey

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HUDF

GOODS - Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey

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HUDF

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Galaxy Cut-outs

• Source extractor

• Segmentation maps

• Individual galaxy images

• Cleaning

• 3D model

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HUDF

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Galaxy 16999 Cut-out

Segmentation Map

Feathered Cut-out

Isolate Galaxies

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Galaxy Cleaning

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Galaxy Cleaning

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Galaxy Cleaning

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Data Pipeline

Culling, crossmatch (perl)

Crop, clean, alpha(perl, IRAF, C)

Galaxy Images

RedshiftSourceData

ImageSourceData

SourceSegmentation

Map

Hubble Images

GalaxyData

RedshiftSourceData

ImageSourceData

GalaxyData

RedshiftSourceData

ImageSourceData

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Data to Visualization

GalaxyData

3D modelling(perl)

MEL Scripts

Galaxy Images

Maya

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Servicing Mission 4Early Release Observations

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Synthetic Stars

• Star database– Position, brightness, color, etc– Multiple wavelengths

• HST point spread function

• Press release image as reference

• Globular cluster density profile

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Orion Nebula

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protoplanetary disk

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Hubble Iconic Images

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Hubble’s Iconic Images

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