NSFScienceScience and Engineering Visualization Challenge
Introduction
Photography
First place
Second place
Honorable
mention

Multimedia
First place
Second place
Third place
Honorable
mention

Illustration
First place
Second place
Honorable
mention

 
The judges
Innolab 3D File Manager
Credit: A. Miezianko, K. Rambish, K. Fung, Z. Pingkan.
Innolab 3D File Manager
Adam Miezianko, Kristopher Rambish, Karen Fung, Zavnura Pingkan

This ferris wheel-like arrangement, created by seniors at Boston University, may be the next elegant solution for managing unwieldly amounts of information. The three-dimensional interface organizes computer contents by their relationships rather than their physical position on a hard drive. Each spiderweb thread marks the ties between folders holding contents related to the open file folder (center, in purple). The system was built with OpenGL on a Linux platform and could be applied to a variety of heirarchical databases, from corporate organizational charts to ecosystem data.

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