Uniview - Visualizing the Universe
Staffan Klashed, Per Hemingsson, Carter Emmart, Matthew D. Cooper, Anders Ynnerman · Eurographics · 2010
This paper describes the development of the software system, Uniview, the motivation behind some of the most prominent features of the system and the strengths and challenges of running a development project in such close collaboration with the users. Uniview is a sophisticated system for the visual display and exploration of the enormous and complex data which the human race has gathered about the universe. This beautiful, fascinating data, with its sheer size both in terms of data elements and the distances between the objects in the known universe, presents challenges to the developer at all levels: from basic rendering through representation and to data managment.