AlloSphere - Who we are

Dr. JoAnn Kuchera-Morin @ TED

• ....The AlloSphere: it's a three-story metal sphere in an echo-free chamber.

  Think of the AlloSphere as a large, dynamically varying digital microscope that's connected to a supercomputer. Twenty (20) researchers can stand on a bridge suspended inside of the sphere, and be completely immersed in their data. Imagine if a team of physicists could stand inside of an atom and watch and hear electrons spin.

  Imagine if a group of sculptors could be inside of a lattice of atoms and sculpt with their material.Imagine if a team of surgeons could fly into the brain, as though it was a world, and see tissues as landscapes, and hear blood density levels as music. This is some of the research that you're going to see that we're undertaking at the AlloSphere.

  Kuchera-Morin, J. (2009, October). Stunning data visualization in the AlloSphere. TED Conferences. https://www.ted.com/talks/joann_kuchera_morin_stunning_data_visualization_in_the_allosphere

Intersecting Science, Engineering, and the Arts

What we do?

Compositional Process & Media Systems

AlloSphere Design

...In representing complex and real-world scenarios on computational platforms, a number of data types come into play, including real data from scientific instruments, simulations on that data, as well as mathematical equations as a result of previous years of experimentation and simulation. Reenacting these complex holistic systems interactively and in real time leads to the possibility of new scientific discoveries as well as new forms of art and entertainment, the interactive cinema of the future and real-world simulations of “nature as it could be,” not nature as it is.

• Kuchera-Morin,JoAnn. Letter to Newton Harrison. 11 Feb. 2022. Personal collection of JoAnn Kuchera-Morin.

Inside the AlloSphere

The AlloSphere (three stories, 26 projectors, & 54.1 Channels of sound.) is a large-scale instrument created as an environment to deliver rich, coherent, interactive, high-resolution 3D video and audio streams from massive scientific datasets is a complex computational and systems engineering task that continues to involve faculty across a variety of disciplines.

Our facility is differentiated from other virtual reality environments by

• its seamless surround-view capabilities

• its ability to accommodate large groups of researchers concurrently

Making Discoveries from the Arts, Mathematics, & Sciences

Contact

Our Team

Inside the AlloSphere - Team inside Quantum Data

Inside the AlloSphere

• jkm@create.ucsb.edu•
• (805) 893-3010 •

• Distinguished Professor, Dr. JoAnn Kuchera-Morin (Ph.D., M.M., B.M.) [A printable business card]

• If you have any technical problems or questions, please contact our team directly at allosphere@ucsb.edu .

Visiting the AlloSphere

AlloSphere | Support the Future

Inside the AlloSphere - Team inside Quantum Data

UCSB's Office of Development - AlloSphere

Directions to the AlloSphere @ 2621 Elings Hall

• Take Ward Memorial Boulevard (Highway #217) to the main entrance of UCSB.

• The building immediately in front of you with the Kandinsky graphic is the California NanoSystems Institute (Elings Hall). Bear right before the traffic circle. Quickly get into the left lane and turn left at signal into Parking Structure 10.

• Find a visitor parking space (marked Coastal Access on the lower levels) and follow the instructions to obtain a parking permit from the vending machine, marked in red on the map below. Enter the California NanoSystems Institute, at the entrance adjacent to the parking garage.

• Take the stairs or elevator to the second floor and enter the AlloSphere in room 2621.

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