Demo: Stunning data visualization in the AlloSphere

翻译人员: Halei Liu 校对人员: Zachary Lin Zhao

The AlloSphere: it's a three-story metal sphere

全息投影球。是在一个无回声的隔间里

in an echo-free chamber.

的三层的金属球。

Think of the AlloSphere as a large,

你可以把全息投影球想象为

dynamically varying digital microscope

一个连有超级电脑的

that's connected to a supercomputer.

动态数码显微镜。

20 researchers can stand on a bridge

20个研究员可以站在球体内

suspended inside of the sphere, and be

悬置的桥上，而且完全和他们的

completely immersed in their data.

数据融为一体。

Imagine if a team of physicists

想象一下如果一组物理学家

could stand inside of an atom

可以站在原子的里面

and watch and hear electrons spin.

并且可以看到、听到电子的转动。

Imagine if a group of sculptors

想象一下如果一组雕塑家

could be inside of a lattice of atoms

可以站在原子的矩阵内

and sculpt with their material.

并用他们的材料进行雕塑。

Imagine if a team of surgeons could fly

想象一下如果一组外科医生可以

into the brain, as though it was a world,

在大脑里飞翔，就像在大脑是一个世界一样，

and see tissues as landscapes,

大脑组织就像世界的景观一样，

and hear blood density levels as music.

并且想听音乐一样来听血流的密度水平。

This is some of the research that you're going to see

这就是你们将要看到的一部分研究，

that we're undertaking at the AlloSphere.

在全息投影球里进行的研究。

But first a little bit about this group

但是先让我介绍一下

of artists, scientists, and engineers

我们一起工作的艺术家，科学家和工程师

that are working together.

的小组。

I'm a composer, orchestrally-trained,

我是一个交响乐团的作曲家，

and the inventor of the AlloSphere.

也是全息投影球的发明者。

With my visual artist colleagues, we map

和我的视觉艺术家同事，我们利用

complex mathematical algorithms that unfold in time and space,

声音与图象组建了各种

visually and sonically.

在时间与空间中拓展的数学模型。

Our scientist colleagues are finding new patterns

我们的科学家同时正在

in the information.

信息里寻找新的图案。

And our engineering colleagues are making

而且我们的工程师同时在制造一个

one of the largest dynamically varying computers in the world

世界上最大的动态计算机，

for this kind of data exploration.

用来探索这种数据。

I'm going to fly you into five research projects

我将要带你们游览在全息投影球

in the AlloSphere that are going to take you from

里的5个研究项目，那将带领你们从

biological macroscopic data

宏观生物学数据

all the way down to electron spin.

一直到电子的环绕。

This first project is called the AlloBrain.

这第一个项目叫做全息大脑。

And it's our attempt to quantify beauty

这是我们试图通过

by finding which regions of the brain

感应大脑部分区域和美丽互动时

are interactive while witnessing something beautiful.

去量化美丽。

You're flying through the cortex of my colleague's brain.

你将会飞跃我一个同事的大脑皮层。

Our narrative here is real fMRI data

我们的数据是可以

that's mapped visually and sonically.

映射视觉和听觉的fMRI数据。

The brain now a world that we can fly through and interact with.

现在大脑就像一个我们可以在内飞翔和与其互动的世界。

You see 12 intelligent computer agents,

你看到了12个智能电脑代表，

the little rectangles that are flying in the brain with you.

就是那些和你一起在大脑飞翔的长方形。

They're mining blood density levels.

他们在探测血液的密度水平。

And they're reporting them back to you sonically.

然后他们将通过声音给你汇报。

Higher density levels mean

密度高的层次表示着

more activity in that point of the brain.

大脑里更为活跃的地方。

They're actually singing these densities to you

他们实际上在用高音映射高密度

with higher pitches mapped to higher densities.

将这些密度唱给你听。

We're now going to move from real biological data

我们现在将要从真正的生物数据

to biogenerative algorithms that create artificial nature

移到可以创造人工自然的生物合成数据，

in our next artistic and scientific installation.

我将在下一个艺术和科学的装置中展现给你们。

In this artistic and scientific installation, biogenerative algorithms

在这个艺术和科学的装置中，生物合成数据

are helping us to understand

将要帮我们去了解

self-generation and growth:

自我衍化和生长。

very important for simulation in the nanoscaled sciences.

这对是在纳米科学内十分重要的一个模拟。

For artists, we're making new worlds

对艺术家而言，我们将要去创造一个

that we can uncover and explore.

我们可以开阔和探索的新世界。

These generative algorithms grow over time,

就在这些自我生长数据在成长的同时，

and they interact and communicate as a swarm of insects.

他们就像昆虫的种群一样在互动和交流。

Our researchers are interacting with this data

我们的研究员通过注入细菌代码

by injecting bacterial code,

去和这个数据互动，

which are computer programs,

那些都是允许让生物

that allow these creatures to grow over time.

不停成长的电脑程序。

We're going to move now from the biological

我们现在要从这个生物

and the macroscopic world,

宏观世界领域，

down into the atomic world,

深入到原子世界，

as we fly into a lattice of atoms.

我们会飞到原子的矩阵中。

This is real AFM -- Atomic Force Microscope -- data

这是真正的AFM，原子力显微镜数据

from my colleagues in the Solid State Lighting and Energy Center.

这些数据来自于我同事提取固态照明和能源中心。

They've discovered a new bond,

他们已经发现了一个新的化学键，

a new material for transparent solar cells.

一种透明的太阳能电池的新材料。

We're flying through 2,000 lattice of atoms --

我们将飞跃2000个原子的矩阵 --

oxygen, hydrogen and zinc.

氧，氢，和锌。

You view the bond in the triangle.

你看到了这个三角形的化学键。

It's four blue zinc atoms

这是4个蓝色锌原子

bonding with one white hydrogen atom.

和一个氢原子绑在一起。

You see the electron flow with the streamlines

你看到了流线型滑动的电子

we as artists have generated for the scientists.

这是我们作为艺术家为科学家所生成的。

This is allowing them to find the bonding nodes in any lattice of atoms.

这可以让他们在任何原子矩阵中去寻找连接的节点。

We think it makes a beautiful structural art.

我们认为这创造了美丽的结构艺术。

The sound that you're hearing are the actual

你现在听到的声音实际上是

emission spectrums of these atoms.

这些原子的发射光谱。

We've mapped them into the audio domain,

我们将他们映射到一个声音的结构上。

so they're singing to you.

所以他们就在和你们唱歌。

Oxygen, hydrogen and zinc have their own signature.

氧，氢和锌有他们自己的特征。

We're going to actually move even further down

我们甚至将要更深入一点

as we go from this lattice of atoms

从这个原子矩阵

to one single hydrogen atom.

到一个单独的氢原子。

We're working with our physicist colleagues

我们和我们的物理学同事一起工作

that have given us the mathematical calculations

得出含时间的三维薛定谔方程

of the n-dimensional Schrödinger equation in time.

的数学算法。

What you're seeing here right now is a superposition of an electron

我们将要看到的是，在氢原子里

in the lower three orbitals of a hydrogen atom.

3个低位环绕的电子的叠加.

You're actually hearing and seeing the electron flow with the lines.

你可以听到和看到沿这些线所环绕的电子。

The white dots are the probability wave

白色的点是概率波

that will show you where the electron is

那将在任何时间和空间内的

in any given point of time and space

这3个低位环绕中

in this particular three-orbital configuration.

告诉你电子在哪

In a minute we're going to move to a two-orbital configuration,

一分钟后我们将要移去两个环绕。

and you're going to notice a pulsing.

然后你将注意到一个脉冲。

And you're going to hear an undulation between the sound.

然后你将会听到一个波形的声音。

This is actually a light emitter.

这实际上是一个光发射器。

As the sound starts to pulse and contract,

就当这声音开始脉冲和对比的同时，

our physicists can tell when a photon is going to be emitted.

我们的物理学家可以知道什么时候一个光子被发射了。

They're starting to find new mathematical structures

他们将在这些计算中找到

in these calculations.

新的数学结构。

And they're understanding more about quantum mathematics.

然后他们就会更加了解量子数学。

We're going to move even further down,

我们要继续深入，

and go to one single electron spin.

去看看单个电子的环绕。

This will be the final project that I show you.

这将是我给你们展示的最后一个项目。

Our colleagues in the Center for Quantum Computation

我们在量子计算研究中心和自旋电子学

and Spintronics are actually measuring with their lasers

的同事，通过激光去

decoherence in a single electron spin.

测量电子的环绕。

We've taken this information and we've

我们取得这个数据，然后

made a mathematical model out of it.

我们用它做出了一个数学模型。

You're actually seeing and hearing

你将要看到和听到

quantum information flow.

量子数据的流动。

This is very important for the next step in simulating

这是为接下来的模拟量子电脑和信息技术

quantum computers and information technology.

十分重要的一步。

So these brief examples that I've shown you

好了，这些我给你们展示的小例子

give you an idea of the kind of work that we're doing

会让你们大概了解我们在圣巴巴拉加利福尼亚大学

at the University of California, Santa Barbara,

在做什么，

to bring together, arts, science

是将艺术，科学

and engineering

和工程学放在一起

into a new age of math, science and art.

去到一个数学，科学和艺术的新领域。

We hope that all of you will come to see the AlloSphere.

我们希望你们都能来参观全息投影球。

Inspire us to think of new ways that we can use

来启发我们在圣巴巴拉所创造的这个新仪器

this unique instrument that we've created at Santa Barbara.

有什么新的用法。

Thank you very much.

十分感谢。

(Applause)

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