Kinex Project

Too often in the field of computational science the capacity to generate results outstrips our ability to assimilate them. Powerful supercomputers produce `firehoses of data' (National Science Foundation Report, McCormick et al, 1987) which we cannot hope to understand without visualisation.

IRIS Explorer is a modular environment allowing easy production of visual results, using a point-and-click interface to choose and interact with diverse graphical methods. The Kinex project goes a stage further, however, bringing the computational process inside the visualisation environment.

The aim is to provide a Chemist's Workbench where powerful software to invetigate reaction mechanisms combines seamlessly with the visualisation of results.

Species concentrations are calculated on-line and passed transparently to a plotting module:

Steering a reaction in time using a bespoke module created within IRIS Explorer:

Graphs are tailored by the investigator before printing direct from IRIS Explorer:

To find out more about Kinex contact Dr Helen Wright at the School of Computer Studies, The University of Leeds (Leeds, LS2 9JT).

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