April 3, 2014
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Los Alamos National Laboratory
![Los Alamos CAVE virtual environment](/sites/default/files/styles/article_default_banner/public/lanl_cave_cropped.jpg?itok=W1avJoRf)
Credit: LeRoy Sanchez, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Over the past several years, Los Alamos National Laboratory has invested in providing state-of-the-art tools to help scientists understand and explore their data. Here, researchers are investigating the details of an astronomical simulation in the CAVE (cave automatic virtual environment) — a cube-shaped room with high-resolution projections on all six surfaces. Using 3-D glasses, these researchers can see objects floating in air, and even walk around the objects, allowing them to observe simulations from all angles.
Read more about radical supercomputing and the CAVE at Los Alamos