We're back in 2017 with Erich Ess, lead engineer on Jet.com's Core Platform team, presenting on foundational work to visualize fluid motion: Imaging Vector Fields Using Line Integral Convolution by Brian Cabral and Leith Leedom.
Intro
Line Integral Convolution is one of the most intuitive data visualization techniques around. It's dropping paint in a river to see how the current is flowing: to visualize a vector field simply take an image and have the vector field smear the colors. The result is a powerful alternative to using arrows or stream lines. And while the intuition is very straightforward, the actual mathematics that power the technique are very complex.
Bio
Erich Ess (@egerhardess) is a lead engineer on the Core Platform team at Jet.com. His current work focuses on semantics for programmatic represention of distributed processes and advanced monitoring and insight platform for high distributed high volume systems. Before that he was a CTO in Chicago and an engineer in San Diego. He studied Computer Science and Pure Mathematics in college and did research in scientific visualization before escaping academia.
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Details
Doors open at 7 pm; the presentation will begin at 7:30 pm; and, yes, there will be refreshments of all kinds and pizza.
A little different than previous PWLs, you'll have to check-in with security with your Name/ID. Definitely sign-up if you’re going to attend–unfortunately people whose names aren’t entered into the security system in advance won’t be allowed in.
After Erich presents the paper, we will open up the floor to discussion and questions.
We hope that you'll read the paper before the meetup, but don't stress if you can't. If you have any questions, thoughts, or related information, please visit #pwlnyc on slack, our GitHub repository, where you can also find the paper, or add to the discussion on this event's thread.
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