This week we had a very distinguished visitor to our class, CU Professor in the Dept of Astrophysics and developer of the Black Hole Flight Simulator, the inimitable and exciting Andrew Hamilton. His website is full of research and examples of his particular type of science visualizations, or SCI VIS, made to think about black holes in space. He has contributed science visualizations to NOVA programs, to travelling Planetarium shows originally developed at the Denver Science Museum, and in fact it's hard to do any research on black hole visuals without bumping into him--he is surely the dark star of our Astrophysics dept! Check out this article on him "Strange Physics" at DISCOVER magazine.
