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  New   Stereo projection for hemispherical domes
Unity game engine and iDome
Data visualisation in crystal
Warping patch for Quartz Composer
FAQ: Spherical mirror projection for hemispherical domes

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2008

Paper: Evaluating Second Life for the Collaborative Exploration of 3D Fractals.
Computers and Graphics, September 2008, doi:10.1016/j.cag.2008.08.004
P.D. Bourke

Paper: Cortical Anatomy and the Spatiotemporal Learning Rule
Advances in Cognitive Neurodynamics. ICCN 2007, Springer, June 2008 (ISBN: 978-1-4020-8386-0)
J.J.Wright and P.D. Bourke

Seminar: Engaging visual environments
WASP seminar to Geek Girls, August 2008
P.D. Bourke

Seminar: Exploring Second Life for Collaborative Visualisation
WASP seminar series, May 2008
P.D. Bourke

Seminar: Vertical dome (iDome): Visualisation and Navigable movies.
And Upright Dome Workshop and Demonstration
APS (Australasian Panetarium Society) conference, Perth, May 2008
P.D. Bourke

Paper: An outline of functional self-organization in V1: synchrony, STLR and Hebb rules.
Cognitive Neurodynamics (Springer), Volume 2, Number 2, pp 147-157, June 2008.
J.J. Wright, P.D. Bourke

Seminar: Realtime raytracing, Application to visualisation.
iVEC seminar series: "Raytracing: your shadows for nothing and reflections for free"

Technical report: High resolution displays using Apple hardware
Ongoing report from an AUC Innovation Grant.
P.D. Bourke

Paper: Evaluating Second Life as a tool for collaborative scientific visualisation.
Computer Games and Allied Technology. Singapore, April 28-30, 2008
P.D. Bourke

Paper: Low Cost Projection Environment for Immersive Gaming.
JMM (Journal of MultiMedia), Volume 3, Issue 1, May 2008, pp 41-46
P.D. Bourke

Seminar: Tactile Visualisation: Feel your data!
WASP Seminar series, April 08
P.D. Bourke

Seminar: ASKAP Site Visualisation
Deep surveys of the Radio Universe with SKA Pathfinders Conference
P.D.Bourke

Poster: Exploiting our sense of touch for scientific visualisation
Poster for iVEC eResearch Forum, February 2008.
P. Bourke

Seminar: Advances in Visualisation
iVEC eResearch Forum, February 2008.
P. Bourke

Seminar: iDome and digital projection into hemispherical domes
Presentation to the Astronomical Group of Western Australia. January 2008.
P. Bourke

2007

Course: Digital Fulldome - Techniques and Technologies
Course prepared for Graphite (ACM Siggraph). Perth, Dec 2007.
P. Bourke

Tutorial: Introduction to Visualisation
WASP. University of Western Australia, December 2007.

Seminar: Immersive environments and applications to gaming
Edith Cowan University (Createc), Serious Games for Serious Business. 16th Nov 2007
P.D. Bourke

Seminar: Novel immersive environments
Talk to Curtin University Computer Science students. (Perth) 31st October 2007

Workshop: VSMM 2007 - Stereoscopy: Theory and Practice
23 September 2007. (Brisbane)
P. Bourke, P. Morse

Seminar: OzViz 2007
Collecting and Creating Digital Assets for the SKA Radio Telescope Project, Boolardy.
South Australian Partnership for Advanced Computing (Adelaide).
27/28 September 2007
P. Bourke, P. Morse

Seminar: Stereoscopic Photography Workshop
WASP, University of Western Australia, August 2007
P. Bourke

Paper: Navigable movies: A Real QuickTime VR
AUC 2007 Conference, Gold Coast, Queensland. September 2007
P.D. Bourke, I. Hooper

Seminar: Cortical Waves and the Development of Cortical Anatomy
Waves 2007, University of Reading, 23-27 July 2007
The 8th International Conference on Mathematical and Numerical Aspects of Waves
J.J. Wright, P.D. Bourke

Seminar: Scientific Visualisation for Astronomy Research and Public Outreach
Kuching Planetarium (East Malaysia). June 2007
P.D. Bourke

Seminar: Visualisation for scientists, museums, public outreach, and education
IHPC, Singapore. June 2007
P.D. Bourke

Seminar: Immersive environments and applications to visualisation
IHPC, Singapore. June 2007
P.D. Bourke

Seminar: Stereoscopic projection - Applications in education
Presentation to SPICE Science Days 2007, University of Western Australia. May 2007
Paul Bourke

Seminar: Novel Projection Environments
SIGGRAPH Perth, February 2007
Paul Bourke

Report: Apple technology powering displays that engage the human visual system
Report on outcomes from AUC grant funding
Paul Bourke

Seminar: Fulldome: Adventures on the Fringe
Australiasian Planetarium Society, Brisbane, February 17-18 2007
Paul Bourke

2006

Tutorials: Introduction to C, MPI, and PBS (pdf) and support files: buddha_mpi.zip
Introduction to Visualisation (pdf) and support files: visualisation_intro.zip
Using POVRay for scientific Visualisation (pdf) and support files: povray_visualisation.zip

Seminar: Creating a toolkit for volume rendering with a variety of styles
OzViz 2006, October 30-31 2006, WASP, UWA, Perth.
P.D. Bourke

Paper: Immersive gaming: a low cost projection environment
Accepted for: DIME 2006, 25-27 October 2006, Bangkok, Thailand
P.D. Bourke

Seminar: Projection technologies and immersion
Interaction Design Research Division. University of Queensland (Ipswich), April 2006.
P.D. Bourke

Paper: Synthetic stereoscopic panoramic images
Presented at: VSMM 2006, 18-20 October 2006, Xi'an, China
Published in: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), Springer,
ISBN 978-3-540-46304-7, Volume 4270/2006, pp 147-155
P.D. Bourke

Paper: An Advanced, 3-dimensional Plotting Library for Astronomy
PASA (Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia), 23 (2006) pp 82-93
D.G. Barnes, C.J. Fluke, P.D. Bourke, O.T. Parry

Paper: Dendrite-like Self-assembly of Magnetite Nanoparticles on Porous Silicon
Small (Wiley Interscience), Volume 2, Issue 7, pp 819-824, May 2006
Sivakumar Balakrishnan, Yurii K. Gunko, Tatiana S. Perova, Robert A. Moore, Munuswamy Venkatesan, Alexios P. Douvalis and Paul Bourke

Paper: Constrained Diffusion Limited Aggregation in 3 Dimensions
Computers and Graphics, Volume 30, Issue 4 , August 2006, Pages 646-649
P.D.Bourke

Paper: Future Directions in Astronomy Visualisation
PASA (Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia), Vol 23, Number 1, 2006
C.J. Fluke, P.D. Bourke, D. O'Donovan

Paper: Contribution of lateral interactions in V1 to organization of response properties
Vision Research 46, Issue 17 (September 2006) 2703-2720
J.J. Wright, D.M. Alexander, P.D. Bourke

Paper: Apollony fractal
Computers and Graphics, Vol 30, Issue 1, January 2006, pages 134-136.
Paul Bourke

2005

Paper: Spherical mirror - A new approach to hemispherical dome projection
Planetarian, Vol 34(4), December 2005, pp 5-9
Paul Bourke

Paper: Digital Planetariums for Everyone: Astronomy Visualisation in Reflection
Planetarian, Vol 34(4), December 2005, pp 10-15
C.J. Fluke & P.D. Bourke

Paper: Using a spherical mirror for projection into immersive environments
Graphite (ACM Siggraph), Dunedin Nov/Dec 2005.
Proceedings of the 3rd international conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques in Australasia and South East Asia. pp 281-284
P.D. Bourke

Poster: Constrained Diffusion Limited Aggregation in 3 Dimensions
Graphite (ACM Siggraph), Dunedin Nov/Dec 2005.
P.D. Bourke

Paper: Impact of neuronal dynamics on anatomical organization of the cerebral cortex.
9th Tamagawa Dynamic Brain Forum - DBF, Nov 2005
J.J. Wright, D.M. Alexander and P.D. Bourke.

Paper: Using Mac OS-X to drive immersive displays for science visualisation and education
AUC Conference "Evolution of the Species", Hobart, September 2005
Paul Bourke

Seminar: Dome projection on a budget
APS 2005 (Australasian Planetarium Society), Auckland, August 2005.
Paul Bourke

Lecture: Immersive Environments - Technology and Applications
Swinburne University, HIR509
Paul Bourke

Paper: Computational study of helix wave formation in active media
Mathematical and Computer Modelling, Volume 41, issue 8/9, pages 1013-1020, April-May 2005.
Petteri Kettumen, Paul D.Bourke, Hajime Hashimoto, Takashi Ameniya, Stefan C. Müller, Tomohiko Yamaguchi.

2004

Seminar: Dome Projection: An alternative approach
OzViz, Brisbane, December 2004.
Paul Bourke

Seminar: QuickTime VR on Stereoids
AUG AGM, Sydney, October 2004
Paul Bourke

Seminar: Think Big, Animation of the human brain
Australian Institute of Medical and Biological Illustrators.
October 2004.

Paper: Visualisation for Science Research and Public Education
Presented at Multimedia Shanghai 2004
China (Shanghai) International Multimedia Technology and Application Symposium, August 2004.
Paul Bourke

Seminar: Melbourne ACM SIGGRAPH, May 2004
Dome projection of interactive content from a single machine, interactive (hardware assisted) stereoscopic volume rendering, and a high resolution (interactive) stereoscopic panoramic viewer.

Paper: Scientific Visualisation and Mac OS-X
Wheels for the Mind, 2004
Paul Bourke

Lecture: Offaxis frustums: What are they and what are they good for?
Swinburne University, HET409
Paul Bourke

Paper: Image Processing of Finite Size Rat Retinal Ganglion Cells Using Multifractal and Local Connected Fractal Analysis.
Submitted to the 17 Australian Joint Conference in Artificial Intelligence.
Published in Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Springer-Verlag Heidelberg, Volume 3339 pp 961, November 2004.
Jelinek, H.F., Cornforth, D.J., Roberts, A.J., Landini, G., Bourke P.D., Iorio A.

Paper: Visualising Astronomical Data using VRML
Proceedings of the SPIE, Volume 5493, pp. 242-253 (2004)
Brett Beeson, Michael Lancaster, David G. Barnes, Paul D. Bourke, Guy Rixon.



2003

Paper: Intrinsic connections in Tree Shrew V1 imply a global to local mapping.
Vision Research, Volume 44, Issue 9, Pages 857-876, April 2004
Alexander DM. Bourke PD. Sheridan P. Konstandatos K. and Wright JJ.

Seminar: VROOM
OzViz Conference, Melbourne, December 2003
Paul Bourke

Paper: Simulated Electrocortical Activity at Microscopic, Mesoscopic and Global Scales.
Neuropyschopharmacology (2003) 28, S80-S90
J.J. Wright, C.J. Rennie, G.L.Lees, P.A. Robinson, P.D. Bourke, C.L. Chapman, E. Gordon, D.L.Rowe.



Seminar: Melbourne ACM SIGGRAPH, April 2004
VROOM, the Virtual Reality Observatory of Melbourne, being installed and built at the Melbourne Museum.

Seminar: Mac OS-X and the full human visual system
AUC AGM, Sydney, October 2003
Paul Bourke

Grant: Swinburne Industry Synergy Grant in collaboration with the Victorian Institute of Sport. Design of a Digital Stereoscopic Video Camera for Sports Coaching and Evaluation. April 2003.
C. Fluke, P.D. Bourke.

Paper: A distributed-data implementation of the perspective shear-warp volume
rendering algorithm for visualisation of large astronomical cubes.

Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia, Volume 20, Number 3, 2003
Brett Beeson, David G. Barnes, Paul D. Bourke

Technical report: Cross platform UNIX software development: A Mac OS-X based case study.
May 2003
Paul Bourke

Lecture: Immersive Environments, Technology and Applications
Swinburne University, HMM669
Paul Bourke

Lecture: Projection for Immersive Environments and Stereographics
Swinburne University, HET409
Paul Bourke



2002

Grant: Enhanced visualisation of cool gas in the local universe using rapid stereoscopic volume rendering.
VPAC Expertise Grant, January 2002
D.G. Barnes, P.D. Bourke

Paper: Spatial Eigenmodes and Synchronous Oscillation: Co-Incidence Detection in Simulated Cerebral Cortex
J. Math. Biol. (Springer-Verlag) 45 (2002) 1, 57-78
C. L. Chapman, J. J. Wright, P. D. Bourke

Grant: Distributed rendering for computationally intensive scientific and multimedia projects.
VPAC Education Grant, June 2002
M. Mazzolini, P.D. Bourke, V. Nguyen

Paper: Visualising chaos in a model of brain electrical activity.
Computers and Graphics, Volume 26, Issue 6, Pages 971-976, December 2002
Mathew P. Dafilis, Paul D. Bourke, David T.J. Liley, Peter J. Cadusch.

Technical report: Visualising the Universe
Stuart Gill, C. Fluke, P. Bourke

Lecture: Stereographics
Swinburne University, HET782
Paul Bourke

Lecture: Immersive Environments and Stereographics
Swinburne University, HET409
Paul Bourke

2000 - 2001

Seminar: Presenting Mars
OzViz conference, ANU Canberra, December 2001
Paul Bourke

Lecture: Stereographics and Immersive Environments
Swinburne University, HET409
Paul Bourke

Paper: Toward an Integrated Continuum Model of Cerebral Dynamics: The Cerebral Rhythms, Synchronous Oscillation and Cortical Stability.
Journal of Biological and Information Processing Sciences, Volume 63, Issue 1-3, Pages 71-88, December 2001
JJ Wright, PA Robinson, CJ Rennie, E Gordon, PD Bourke, CL Chapman, N Hawthorn, GJ Lees, D Alexander.

Paper: CONSCRIPT - A program for generating electron density isosurfaces for presentation in protein crystallography
Journal of Applied Crystallography (2000), 33, 990-991.
Lawrence, M.C. & Bourke, P.D.

Lecture: Supercomputing and Multimedia Applications
Swinburne University, HET409
Paul Bourke

Paper: Synchronous oscillation in the cerebral cortex and object coherence: simulation of basic electrophysiological findings.
Biological Cybernetics 83: 341-353 (2000)
J.J. Wright, P.D. Bourke, C.L. Chapman

Grant: Portable stereoscopic display: Data to display, Development and training in the use of stereoscopic 3D data projection for displaying technical data.
VPAC Expertise Grant, December 2001
P.D. Bourke, D. Bannon

Pre 2000

Paper: Models of Electrocortical Activity:
Cerebral Rhythms, Synchronous Oscillation, and Relations to Cortical Stability.

Agora 1999 Conference.
J.J. Wright, P.A. Robinson, C.J. Rennie, E. Gordon, G.J. Lees, D.M. Alexander, C.L. Chapman, P.D. Bourke, N. Hawthorn

Paper: Emergent symmetry of local and global maps in the primary visual cortex:
Self-organisation of orientation preference
Complex Systems '98, Sydney, December 1998
David M. Alexander, Phil Sheridan, Paul Bourke, Otto Konstandatos, James J. Wright

Paper: Emergence under Hebbian learning of local maps in the primary visual cortex:
Orientation Preference in the Tree Shrew

(Submitted December 1998)
David M. Alexander, Paul D. Bourke, Phil Sheridan, Otto Konstandatos, James J. Wright

Paper: Steady States and Global Dynamics of Electrical Activity in the Cerebral Cortex
Phys Rev E (58) 3557-3571, 1998
P. A. Robinson, C. J. Rennie, J. J. Wright, P. D. Bourke

Paper: Modularity of v1: Simulation of orientation preference
Proceedings of the 9th Austraian Conference on Neural Networks, Brisbane, Australia, February 1998
David M. Alexander, Phil Sheridan, Paul Bourke, James J. Wright

Paper: Global and local symmetry of the primary visual cortex: derivation of orientation preference.
David M. Alexander, Phil Sheridan, Paul D. Bourke, Otto Konstandatos, James J. Wright

Paper: Modularity of V1: Simulation of orientation preference
Proceedings of the Ninth Australian Conference on Neural Networks, 1998.
D. M. Alexander, P. D. Bourke, P. Sheridan, J.J. Wright

Paper: Global and local similarity of the primary visual cortex: mechanisms of orientation preference
HELNET - International Workshop on Neural Networks, September 1997.
David M. Alexander, Phil Sheridan, Paul D. Bourke, Otto Konstandatos

Paper: An Algebraic-Geometric Model of the Receptive Field Properties of the Macaque Striate Cortex
Proc. Aust. Neuroscience Soc. Vol 8, February 1997
David M. Alexander, Phil Sheridan, Paul D. Bourke

Paper: Teaching Applications for WWW Technology
Paper Presentation at the 1995 AUC Academic and Developer Conference, Perth
Paul Bourke

Article: High Quality Rendering on the Macintosh
Australasian Wheels for the Mind, April 1991
Paul Bourke

Article: Fractals, Chaos, and Computer Graphics
New Zealand Interface Magazine, November/December 1990
Paul Bourke

Paper: Efficient Triangulation Algorithm Suitable for Terrain Modelling
Pan Pacific Computer Conference, Beijing, China. 1989
Paul Bourke

Article: Contouring Algorithm
Byte Magazine, July 1987
Paul Bourke


  New   Stereo projection for hemispherical domes
Unity game engine and iDome
Data visualisation in crystal
Warping patch for Quartz Composer
FAQ: Spherical mirror projection for hemispherical domes

The contents of this web site are © Copyright Paul Bourke or a third party contributer where indicated. You may print or save an electronic copy of parts of this web site for your own personal use. Permission must be sought for any other use.