VMI Blog IV
A brief 9-minute overview of work-in-progress on Virtual Macquarie Island for the VMI Project. The movie covers the development of the environment and terrain model, ocean workflow and initial development tests in endemic fauna...
Category: Visualisation
360 Blog – Experiments
Some experiments in mono & stereoscopic 360 renders for VR. The youtube video is a test of panoramic rendering from Unreal Engine 4.26 using Cesium for Unreal. There are technical problems with panoramic rendering,...
No New Messages
An old iPhone recording (2016) of a scam telephone call, using a synthesized voice, recorded on an old answering machine (2000) that uses an even older synthetic voice, meets NVIDIA’s Audio2Face (2021) – ‘an...
VMI Blog II
As mentioned in the previous blog post, I’m exploring the excellent WaterLine water system, which is enabling me to ~finally~ get some decent results with shorelines – something that is clearly a subject of...
Experiments with Unreal Engine 5
As I progress with testing the new capabilities – and limitations – of UE5, I’ll post them here. The main objective is to work out an effective workflow using new features such as Lumen...
Virtual South Georgia
What started off as a little zero-budget technical experiment in my spare time inadvertently turned into a bit of an epic. Anyway, I started getting my head around some technical things I wanted to...
Visions of Australia: VMI
Synopsis Virtual Macquarie Island (VMI 1.0), is a prototype digital exhibit created in collaboration with TMAG and the Australian Antarctic Program. It is currently on exhibit at TMAG’s Islands to Ice Antarctica gallery. VMI...
Interactive Visualization for Data Inference in the Geosciences
This is the author resource for my PhD thesis (2021): Interactive Visualization for Data Inference in the Geosciences. The full PDF is available here: DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.24579.63523 Publication Repository: http://ecite.utas.edu.au/rmdb/ecite/q/ecite_view_author/25587 Software Repository: https://zenodo.org/record/3264037 Github: https://github.com/pemorse/data-visualization-tools Links...
Ghosts of Antarctica
Ghosts of Antarctica 2021UHD 4k , Stereo. Duration: 8:10 Synopsis Ghosts of Antarctica is a reflective short film that brings new life and emotion to the faces of Australian Antarctic scientists and explorers of...
Cryptomea
Cryptomea is a project that both creates new work and embeds it in a new digital market. Now that technology is mature enough, a previously impossible vision can be realised.
Of Ancient Design
An undiscovered island. An ancient wreck. It is July 1810. The brig Perseverance is upon the high seas, the wild Southern Ocean. Ship’s Captain Frederick Hasselborough is searching for new sealing grounds, with a...
Exploratory volumetric deep Earth visualization by 2.5D interactive compositing
Abstract:In this contribution we consider the visualization of global, deep Earth volume datasets for display and researcher interaction. While the algorithms and data analysis techniques that produce such volumetric results have become more sophisticated,...
Virtual Macquarie Island
UPDATE: VMI has been awarded Commonwealth development funding through the Visions of Australia program. The Minister’s media release is here. Project details can be found here: https://www.petermorse.com.au/2021/06/visions-of-australia-vmi/ This is brief preview (v0.1) of a...
Visualising & Modelling Trees
Tasmania has some of the largest trees in the world – giants that can be thousands of years old, growing in its not-so-remote temperate rainforests. This is an experiment in making a reasonably accurate...
SCAR 2020 Presentation: Game Engines, Photogrammetry & Deep Learning For Antarctic Heritage Visualization
Peter Morse 1,3, Tobias Stål 1,3, Anya Reading 2,3 1 School of Natural Sciences (Earth), University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia2 Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia3 School of Natural Sciences (Mathematics and Physics), University of Tasmania,...
Western Australia from Space
The brand new $396-million-dollar New Museum for Western Australia, opening in 2020, approached me for a visualisation of Western Australia from space, having seen a fulldome sequence from my 4k planetarium movie, Dark. They...
Hemispheres of the Mind
‘Hemispheres of the Mind‘ is an immersive fulldome experience exploring cutting-edge computational imaging and simulation of brain structure and activity. A collaboration between Cyrille Favreau (Blue Brain Project EPFL), Sarah Kenderdine (eM+ EPFL) and...
Deep Ruin: Climate Disasters in Imaginary Lands
Australia Council practice-based research + creative development support material. The themes I explore in this creative development + practice-led research proposal develop long-term artistic preoccupations I have with landscape, romanticism and data-driven art. In...