Submerse Yourself in a Nuclear Weapons Lab

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Chris Leonard Friend of CR4 Join Date: Dec 2004 Posts: 1776 Good Answers: 35	Submerse Yourself in a Nuclear Weapons Lab 04/03/2006 11:15 AM
	Welcome to a "sneak peek" article from the April edition of Design & Analysis Software from GlobalSpec. On any given day, engineers at Los Alamos labs can enter a special room called "the cave" and experience a nuclear blast. The explosion, of course, is a computational simulation, and the cave is an immersive visualization center, built and installed with the help of FakeSpace Systems. As described in a recent issue of Cadalyst, the engineers get a sense of actually standing inside a nuclear reaction, the result of 33 projectors spraying out 43 million pixels into the room. Would you like to see more? Click here to view past issues of Design & Analysis Software. To stay up-to-date and informed on industry trends, products, and technologies, subscribe to Design & Analysis Software today. __________________ Off to take on other challenges. Good luck everybody! See you around the Interwebs.
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Bayes The Engineer Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Albany, New York Posts: 5060 Good Answers: 129	#1 What is the scientific benefit 04/12/2006 3:57 PM
	I hate to be a spoilsport here, but what is the scientific benefit of this type of simulation? It must have cost a fortune, and it's cool as whatever, but what would the scientists use it for other than to "see" what a nuclear reaction is like from the inside?
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Paddy O'Flanigan Power-User Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 255 Good Answers: 2	#2 Los Alamos Simulation 04/13/2006 9:45 AM
	Sometimes after a real spicy Mexican meal, I retreat to my "cave" and experience a nuclear blast of sorts... probably just as toxic. :-)
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