<div dir="ltr"><p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Greetings,</span></p><p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;text-align:justify">
<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">The 2014 IEEE Scientific Visualization Contest will be an official part of IEEE VIS 2014. The VisContest offers researchers from the VIS community the opportunity to transfer the latest developments in visual data analysis to a challenging application scenario.</span><br>
</p><font style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"></span></font><p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">This year, the contest targets data from atmospheric research that captures volcanic eruptions and their atmospheric aftermath. For the contest, participants are challenged to create a comprehensive visualization of the provided data that enables domain experts to gain a deeper understanding of the volcanic eruption events and helps them better understand the consequences for atmosphere and climate.</span></p>
<font style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"></span></font><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="line-height:13px">All of the raw data for the contest is provided in VTK format and the sample screenshots have been made with ParaView.</span><span style="line-height:13px"> The submission deadline is <span class="" tabindex="0"><span class="">July 31, 2014</span></span>. For more information on the contest, please visit <a href="http://www.viscontest.rwth-aachen.de/" target="_blank">http://www.viscontest.rwth-aachen.de/</a>. If you do use VTK or ParaView, let us know and we would be happy to highlight your work on our websites.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="line-height:13px"><br></span></span></p><div>David E DeMarle<br>
Kitware, Inc.<br>R&D Engineer<br>21 Corporate Drive<br>Clifton Park, NY 12065-8662<br>Phone: 518-881-4909</div>
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