To observe close-ups of whirling winds and hurricanes Japanese researchers have developed avant-garde three-dimensional images by feeding stocks of data into computer to view via special goggles.
By wearing some special glasses equipped with sensors, scientists steps into a small cube-shaped room in Yokohama, near Tokyo where computer projects data via 3D images that appear across the room. Researchers can also watch images of spinning clouds if they punch some figures to closely analyze some powerful typhoon.
Tetsuya Sato, a professor who is directing the project at the state-run Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology asserted:
Thanks to this system, we can discover so much more new data - it’s like discovering diamonds!
This new innovation also enables researchers to visualize mysteries of deep cores of earth by forming an image of a flat miniature earth that glides across the walls and bounces into mid-air inside the room to facilitate researchers to view streams of zigzag color inside the earth core that signifies the velocity of the molten iron process.
Sato further said:
Earth simulators up until now used to only produce and stock digital data but we couldn’t fully understand natural phenomena just by looking at numbers
The innovation will be also offered to the general public once a year to closely examine the three-dimensional simulations of natural phenomena that also encompass earthquakes, tornadoes and tsunamis.
However, this new system will offer excellent weather forecasts but still it has some limitations to observe accurately, complicated phenomenon like global warming.
Via: dsc.discovery
