New 3D Visualization Technologies as a Part of Scientific Gateway and

Portal

EVA PAJOROVA, LADISLAV HLUCHÝ

Institute of Informatics,

Slovak Academy of Science,

Dúbravská 9, Bratislava,

SLOVAKIA

Abstract: - Our paper describes the use and also the great importance of new modern tools of 3D visualization

technologies as one of the main components of the Science Gateway (SG), and portals. As new technologies of

3D visualization are improved and developed, so are new scientific portals and gateways, which are also

created by using new 3D technologies such as Virtual Reality (VR), Augmented Reality (AR), Mixed Reality

(MR), etc. Our paper aims to point out and explain with several examples where we supported the use

of new modern technologies of 3D visualization as part of the science gateway in the portal. Our

research focuses on the creation of visualization tools in the fields of natural disasters, astronomy and

astrophysics, education, water management, and many other sectors.

Key-Words: - Scientific gateway, portal, 3D visualization, Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality

Received: May 26, 2022. Revised: February 14, 2023. Accepted: April 12, 2023. Published: May 10, 2023.

1 Introduction

A gateway or portal is a site with clear, numerous

links to many other pages, through which you can

access personalized data, applications, and services.

A science gateway is usually created and perfected

by a single community, which accumulates in it a

set of tools, applications, data, and various other

necessary information. It can be said that access to

all scientific results in a given community area is

integrated through a portal or science gateway,

usually in a graphical user interface that is further

adapted to the needs of a particular community. A

great benefit is that science gateways allow users

associated with a common discipline to exploit

national resources through a common interface that

is designed and configured for their optimal use.

Such a structure saves research teams a lot of time

and they can focus on their scientific goals because

they already have the necessary cyberinfrastructure

in place. Gateways containing clear links to other

community sites thus encourage collaboration and

exchange of ideas and scientific results of the

particular community.

We adapted our development to the Tera Grid tool,

[1]. TeraGrid Science Gateways provides

community access to TeraGrid resources. The

advantage of Tera Grid is mainly that TeraGrid

allows gateways to request resources on behalf of

the entire community, which brings several benefits

such as targeting a larger number of users. This

gateway provides community members with the

customized interface needed to sign up, submit

jobs, and access data collection through the

transparent use of TeraGrid resources, by

opening access to new communities of users who

have not registered directly with TeraGrid.

TeraGrid resource providers need the ability to

collect user statistics as inputs for future planning

and success metrics, both for internal use and

scientific gateway with several advantages

Our approach has enriched the scientific gateway

with several advantages, [2], such as:

 transparent data access

 access to meta-data

 access to visualizations

 access to analysis

Transparent Data Access

For scientists provides access to data repositories

that are typically scattered. These are scattered

across multiple domains and institutions.

Access to meta-data

Access to meta-data and meta-data sources to

perform search and discovery activities.

Access to visualizations

Access to visualizations is an essential component

of the scientific gateway, as scientists can easily and

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quickly understand the results of research in a given

area in a simple, sophisticated visualization way.

For this reason, we are using new visualization

methods through scientific gateways.

Access to analysis

After all, access to analyses is very important for

evaluating scientific results in a given area.

2 New Modern Scientific Gateway

We start with Virtual Reality Scientific Gateway,

and later in parallel with the development of 3D

imaging, we changed our approach and created the

Augmented Reality Scientific Gateway.

Now it is becoming increasingly apparent that

along with the development of these technologies, it

is necessary to simultaneously develop modern 3D

visualization tools as well as their integration into

the structure of a concrete SG. Modern SG

contributes to the education of scientists, students,

and anyone interested in the field. As part of our

scientific research, SGs are an important article for

the presentation of our research results.

The choice of a new imaging techno purpose

depends on what purpose it is used for. For

example, Microsoft has taken the approach of a new

modern visualization technology such as Mixed

Reality (MR) for use with HoloLens. I.e.

overlapping interactive holograms with the real

world as well as with their background.

Applications using MR have proven themselves in

the professional field, especially in various

healthcare sectors. It greatly assists surgeons with

non-invasive surgeries, or in the business sector,

where it helps with machine maintenance on site.

Such a method also provides hands-free assistance

in real-time.

However, for the scientific gateway, which is an

education technologies table choice of new modern

3D visualization technologies’ differences and

advantages virtual reality and augmented reality?

Virtual reality (VR) was invented in the 60s and

developed in the 70s. Virtual reality was developed

along with flight simulators developed by military

aviation. Progress in research into CoR educational

applications has been uneven, with empirical studies

being scarce (Jacobson, 2008, pp. 62-75). MR is

very effective in learning, which requires a sequence

of steps, that is, procedural tasks, and also for tasks

that required movement in a 3-dimensional space. In

the early 2000s, multi-user virtual environments

(MUVE) use modern visualization technology such

as Augmented Reality (AR). The affordability of

these new technologies was also a great advantage.

It took almost 25 years when the need arose for

these new technologies to be fully introduced into

the educational process and scientific gateways as

essential educational tools.

Our research aims to create new scientific gates

and especially to grayscale already existing

scientific gates with new technologies such as

augmented reality AR, and mixed reality MR. With

new trends starting a lot of researchers are interested

in SG and portals, [3], [4]. We try to enrich this

creation with the possibility of call sing with

modern new modern 3D visualization technologies

and tools. The results of research in the field of

astronomy, the field of science, natural disasters,

and also in the field of education have been

incorporated into the relevant scientific gates.

Widely known as the Water HUB is a scientific

gateway for research and education in the field of

water, it is a global communication and research

platform for research, education, knowledge

sharing, and global outreach.

The Water HUB, which is based on hub zero's

cyberinfrastructure for scientific collaboration,

develops and makes available data modeling and

sharing tools used in water-related research and

education activities, [5]. Its tools also include the

online SWAT Share application, which allows users

to run and calibrate their SWAT models and

supports model sharing and visualization of output

data through web browsers. In addition, the Water

HUB will also benefit from other national efforts,

such as the web services of the Hydrological

Information System (HIS) of the Consortium of

Universities for the Development of Hydrological

Sciences.

3 Some Examples

New modern 3D visualization technologies are

composed of the digital world with our real world,

making it the best educational platform for research

and education. The required audiovisual elements,

overlaid in the real world, make up the perfect

development tool. With the correct implementation

of physical activities, new modern 3D visualization

technologies can become an entry platform for

scientific gateway and portals, [5].

The entry platform for science and education

brings several benefits. Mobile application to enable

researchers and students to account for all the new

modern 3D visualization technologies and research

results. New modern 3D visualization technologies

are virtually speaking head and text-to-speech and

speech-to-text services. Web-based authoring tools

and mobile applications for Android and IOS affect

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collaborative interfaces, education modules and

bring new modern technologies and lessons, and

books.

3.1 Some examples from water management

Our research focused on simulations in the field of

water flow, water pressure in high-rise buildings as

well as in the field of water quality. For calculations

and the display of scientific results, we designed and

created several modern tools, [6]. For example, we

created the new modern 3D visualization

technologies tool to display the scientific results of

these simulations.

These tools were subsequently incorporated into

the scientific gateways of water research, [7]. We

start with the terrain of Bratislava town covered with

water pipes and Orto-photomaps. See Figure 1 and

Figure 2. The water pleasure in high-rise buildings is

shown in Figure 3 and Figure 4, as the flow of water.

Fig. 1: The terrain of Bratislava town is covered

with water pipes

Fig. 2: Terrain covered with water pipes and with

ortho-photo-maps

Our research focused on simulations in the field of

water flow, water pressure in high-rise buildings as

well as in the field of water quality. For calculations

and the display of scientific results, we designed and

created several modern tools. For example, we

created the new modern 3D visualization

technologies tool to display the scientific results of

these simulations. These tools were subsequently

incorporated into the scientific gateways of water

research. The water pleasure in high-rise buildings

is shown in Figure 3 and 4 and the flow of water.

See Figure 5.

Fig. 3: Water pleasures in big buildings

Fig. 4: The water pleasure in big buildings which

are too high and water pleasure is not the norm

3.2 Some Examples from Astrophysics and

Astronomy Scientific Gateway and Portals

Our research focused primarily on astrophysics and

astronomy. We have created a very sophisticated

mixed-reality tool for astronomy scientific gateway.

VR, AR, MR, and all new visualization technologies

have the main position as a way to control the

execution process. The visualization tool is designed

as a plug-in module, [8]. The client asking for

visualization is a “visualization client”. Output data

on the storage element are the input data for

visualization jobs.

Visualization workers are to modify data to the

visualizable formats and prepare the typical

visualization scenes. The development of science

portals and scientific gateways is to cover the

requirements of large-scale sciences such as earth

sciences, astronomy, and all sciences that use grid,

cloud, or cluster computing and high-performance

computing infrastructure. The article also shows the

main position of new technologies of 3D

visualization in the Science Gateway and as an

example, we describe describes the architecture of

the visualization tool for astrophysics simulations

The 3D visualization tool is integrated into the web

portal, as well as the e-science gateway for

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3D visualization tool for astronomical

applications provides pictures from simulation of

the evolution of proto-planetary discs from 1Myr to

1000 Myr. We can see that during the 1000 Myr

time that the particles were replaced from the inside

to the outside of the spheres. Figure 5 shows the

result of the dynamical evolution of the Oort cloud

as a part of a proto-planetary disk after its

evolutionary stage which was the first Giga year.

Fig. 5: Dynamical evolution of the Oort-cloud as a

part of a proto-planetary disk after its evolutionary

stage which was the first Giga year

4 Conclusion

The great benefit of portals and scientific gateways

is access to high-performance computing resources

via the web. Portals and scientific gateways can be

considered as technologies that provide scientific

disciplines with the building blocks to create newer

more modern approaches to scientific information,

and also allow people to access computing and data

resources. Since portals and scientific gates are

supposed to serve everyone, it must be admitted that

the solution and their creation using modern

visualization tools are more and more

understandable for students, scientists, and even for

physically and mentally disabled people. Therefore,

we currently want to focus our research on

improving the communication of disabled students

using a virtual speaking head in their given

language. With this virtual head, we want to enrich

all the scientific gateways we have worked on so.

Acknowledgment:

The article is supported by the projects: (VEGA) -

Semantic distributed computing continuum for

extreme data processing (2023-2025), 2/0131/23

and HYSPED - Research on the application of

artificial intelligence tools in the analysis and

classification of hyperspectral sensing data

(1.3.2022-31.8.2023), ESF project, ITMS-

313011BWC9.

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Contribution of Individual Authors to the

Creation of a Scientific Article (Ghostwriting

Policy)

-Eva Pajorova, programming, software

development; designing computer programs;

implementation of the computer code and

supporting algorithms; testing of existing code

components and preparation, creation, and

presentation of the published work, specifically

writing the initial draft (including substantive

translation).

-Ladislav Hluchy, verification, whether as a part of

the activity or separate, of the overall

replication/reproducibility of results/experiments

and other research outputs.

Sources of Funding for Research Presented in a

Scientific Article or Scientific Article Itself

The article is supported and funded by the projects:

(VEGA) - Semantic distributed computing

continuum for extreme data processing (2023-2025),

2/0131/23 and HYSPED - Research on the

application of artificial intelligence tools in the

analysis and classification of hyperspectral sensing

data (1.3.2022-31.8.2023), ESF project, ITMS-

313011BWC9.

Conflict of Interest

The authors have no conflict of interest to declare.

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