An article on the University of Texas website talks about the TACC Vislab, home of several large cutting-edge displays. While I’m sure they mean it to talk about how the large displays help to advance scientific research and understanding, it gets off to a rocky start by pitching it as a tour stop.
Though primarily intended for scientific research, the Vislab has become a dramatic attraction for students, artists, humanities researchers and university officials, who frequently showcase the lab on VIP tours. From analysis of brain scans to student film festivals, the lab is now a hub for novel research and presentations across the sciences and humanities.
However, if you keep reading you’ll eventually get to some of the research this large screen aids in.
Bajaj and co-workers have developed a computational method that transforms incredibly high-resolution microscopy scans of a mouse brain — a part of the hippocampus believed to be important in memory — into a wiring diagram of the type used by electrical engineers.
Because the microscopy technology used to explore the hippocampus creates images of incredible size and resolution, the Stallion tiled display in the Vislab was the only place where Bajaj and his group could see the multi-Gigapixel images at full nanometer-resolution scale.
