The Homunculus Project at the Center for High Performance Computing focuses on the development of virtual reality and visualization technology to help scientists and engineers to better understand their computer software systems and data. This project is a high performance computing (HPC), multi-dimensional virtual laboratory for construction, simulation, evaluation, perception, and comprehension of complex software systems and simulations.
Flatland is the virtual environment developed to perform these investigations. Using Flatland as the base environment scientists can visualize and explore both their data and the computations that manipulate that data. Imagine, if you will, a scientist able to examine the real-time results of a simulation and, when he notices an anomally he would like to investigate, he turns to the program running the simulation and examines the code, possibly changing it on the fly. This is the dream of Flatland. The Flatland Gallery contains more images and movies of Flatland.
For more information about the Homunculus Project and Flatland visit http://www.hpc.unm.edu/homunculus/.