Applied Vis conference gets big picture to the public
by Dale Neal

Asheville Citizen Times

ENKA — Inside the inflatable immersion dome, Clayton Hooker of The Elumenati, an Asheville-based company, didn’t have to say much. He could let the pictures speak for themselves.

In the darkness, Hooker loaded the computerized projector with “Molecularium,” an animated tale for grade-school children learning how atoms combine to form molecules and matter.

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Lab's mission combines WNC's data, technology
New UNCA center focuses on flood hot spots
by Dale Neal

Asheville Citizen Times

ASHEVILLE - You can visualize Asheville from your car if you have a global information system device. On your computer, popular programs now let you fly down from a satellite onto a city block in downtown Asheville or even your own rooftop.

"GIS is to today what the computer was in 1980," explained Greg Dobson, the new GIS Associate at UNC Asheville's National Environmental Modeling and Analysis Center.

Combining GIS tools with weather data, flood maps and satellite imagery, local leaders are visualizing Asheville as a new technology center that can not only help people see where they are, but where the next devastating flood will come.

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