• See the UW HPCC (High Performance Computing and Communications) Group for more simulations
  • Pictues from 50 Mpc/h, 80 million particle, Omega=0.3, Lambda=0.7 Simulation run using pkdgrav (Joachim Stadel & Tom Quinn), on the NCSA SGI Origin 2000 and the Nasa Ames Origin 2000 supercomputers.




  • ``3D'' movie of the whole cube at redshift zero

  • large pic of the cube

    • high-res version


    Biggest cluster at redshift zero: movie






    A flight through the cube at redshift zero. movie

    More Movies:
    movie7
    movie8
    movie9
    movie:flight along filament at z=0.25
    movie:biggest cluster 2
    movie:biggest cluster 3




    movie: camera rotation of a cluster at a redshift of 0.65 (mpeg, 4MB)


    movie: "salami" moving slice traversal of the high-res cube at redshift of 0.



    movie: moving slice traversal of the high-res cube at redshift of 0.5



    movie camera rotation of a slice at redshift 0.5


    movie fly through the cube at redshift of 0.5

    A cluster at redshift zero: movie. For a weird trick, play this in a repeating loop, and see if you can make the rotation reverse direction in your mind.


    Flight down a filament at redshift zero: movie




    Evolution of largest cluster (click above for gif): gzipped postscript version



    zoom in on a cluster at redshift 0.5






    thin slice at redshift 0.5





    snapshot of a filament at redshift of 0.5





    zoom in on a cluster at redshift 0.5






    thin slice of the cube at redshift 2




    thin slice zoomed 2X







    present day cluster at redshift 2




    thin slice of clube at a redshift 0.65






    slice zoomed 2X







    present day cluster at redshift 0.65






    Simulation by Darren Reed & Tom Quinn