Graphics for Fusion Physics

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Meeting: Wednesday, September 16, 1998

Graphics for Fusion Physics

General Atomics' Educational Outreach Program has commissioned an educational CDROM targeted at middle and high school students. The package will include a data resource much like an encyclopedia of fusion physics, and a game that teaches kids some of the fundamentals of fusion, and the technology behind developing a fusion power plant.
Terri Larsen will be discussing the production and development of this work-in-progress. The original images and animations are created in Alias version 8, and some of the imagery uses CAD data for a experimental fusion vessel, the tokamak. Terri has created models to illustrate atoms, plasma and the magnetic fields that confine it, and will have some of the interactive modules in the game and test animations to show during the presentation.

Admission

Members free. Non-members $5. Memberships $15/year.

Address, directions and maps:

San Diego Supercomputer Center, 10100 Hopkins Dr. La Jolla, CA. 92093
SDSC auditorium on the first floor.

Directions

Take the 5 to Genessee Avenue (an exit or two below the 5/805 merge, depending on which direction you're going)
Head WEST on Genesee.
At the second set of lights, make a left onto North Torrey Pines Road
Stay in the left lane, and make the next left onto Northpoint Road
At the second stop sign, turn into the information booth and purchase an evening parking permit ($3)
Continue on (Northpoint becomes Hopkins Drive at some point). You will pass the athletic fields, then a large building known as RIMAC (Recreation /Intramural/Athletic and Event Center)
Just past RIMAC is the Supercomputer Center, on your right.
Signs will be posted to help lead the way.

Click here for a UCSD Map (Super Computer Center is labeled)

Updated 9/12/98