RT service highlight: Advanced Visualization Lab

The UITS Advanced Visualization Lab (AVL) promotes and supports the innovative application of visual technologies to enhance research, education, creative activity, and community outreach within and beyond IU. The AVL also provides expert consulting services, training opportunities, and learning resources related to visualization.

Use case: 3D printing IU landmarks in honor of the IU Bicentennial

In honor of IU’s Bicentennial, Scott Birch and the Advanced Visualization Lab (AVL) digitized and 3D printed a series of renowned IU monuments and artifacts, including the Old Oaken Bucket and a striking version of the Showalter Fountain, in miniature. The Bicentennial Bus traveled all over the state with these objects inside, allowing the team to highlight this and many other technologies the AVL promotes and supports. The bus included two custom touchscreen kiosks loaded with virtual tours of beautiful locations on all IU’s campuses with Campus Quest. The Digital Diorama Viewer was also on board, allowing visitors to dive deeper into shipwrecks and other historically significant sites.

“The IU Bicentennial provided a unique opportunity to share the expertise of RT in a way that was extremely accessible and meaningful to all Hoosiers. The traveling exhibit was a literal and figurative vehicle for showcasing why IU matters to the state, and why RT matters to IU.”

Eric Wernert
Director, Visualization and Data Services

Use case: The “All for You” tour

From September 2019 through early 2020, IU’s traveling exhibit, “All for You,” toured Indiana, bringing the IU Bicentennial to the state’s many counties. This interactive exhibit explored IU’s impact on the state. The exhibit featured content from each campus in various mediums, including virtual reality, 3D prints, physical objects from IU’s collections, videos, and historic images. A virtual tour is available on the IU Bicentennial website.