Virtual Environments

Providing a coordinated approach to materials design, creation, characterisation and application.

At CSIRO Mathematical and Information Sciences, we apply mathematics and statistics to answer important questions from medical research to environmental monitoring and industrial processing.

 

In an ultra-modern take on a St Bernard bringing brandy to stranded skiers, tomorrow pilotless aircraft will drop water to someone ‘lost’ in the outback.

The team of scientists who developed the world’s fastest, most spectrally-efficient wireless communications link has been awarded the highest accolade CSIRO can bestow on its scientists – the 2007 CSIRO Chairman’s Medal.

On December 4-6 2007, a CSIRO workshop was held in Melbourne to address the ‘Simulation and Modelling of Urban and Regional Sustainability, Transitions and Applications in Policy, Planning and Management’ (SMURT).  It provided a forum  to exchange knowledge on regional and urban transition simulations for policy development, planning and management.

A novel program that models the behaviour of rocks within crushing and grinding mills is helping to improve energy efficiency and could accelerate the development of new comminution machinery.

CSIRO is using the virtual world, Second Life, to communicate its scientific work to an international audience.

Modelling air turbulence, understanding cooling processes, simulating pressure changes – these are just some of the applications of CSIRO’s Fastflo software.

SIMEDWin is a reservoir simulator that is used for the simulation of coal seam methane production, coalmine gas drainage and enhanced coal seam methane production.

This video shows scientists demonstrating the wearable instrument shirt playing as a simple moderately paced tambourine rhythm with occasional accents that simulate a tambourine being shaken as well as tapped for accent. (0:21)

An video demonstrating the wearable instrument shirt playing a simple moderately paced rhythm with occasional accents that simulate a guiro being stroked slowly upward and struck downward quickly. (0:11)

Dr Luke Connell is the stream leader for field development and processing and the team leader for coal seam reservoirs. His research includes reservoir simulation and characterisation of coal seam gas reservoirs.

Virtual environment and 3D simulations, multi-agent models and facilities management are key aspects of Dr Ding’s research on improving the built environment.

The Coal Seam Reservoir Team is developing innovative ways to enhance coal seam methane production. (2 pages)

Download the information sheet about our wearable body mapping garments being used by Australian netballers to improve athlete skills. (2 pages)

CSIROvision reveals a level of detail usually seen only on high powered microscopes. Combining high definition video and audio with an in-built teleconferencing facility, CSIROvision allows real-time collaboration across the globe.

CSIRO Discovery presents a free forum that explores representation of science in the arts.