Mark Mizubayashi

2005, Environmental Engineering, Maui, Maui

Mark Akio Mizubayashi is a student at San Francisco State University pursuing a B.S. in Computer Science. Before transferring to San Francisco State University, he obtained an A.A. degree from Maui Community College. Mark is was born and raised on the island of Maui, he has lived in the central part of Maui before finally moving to San Francisco State University to complete his education. He hopes to be able to eventually move back to Maui and to be able to help the people of Hawaii.

Home Island: Maui
High School:
Institution when accepted: San Francisco State University

Akamai Project: 3D Weather – 3D Visualization of Weather Datasets Utilizing Vis5D
Project Site: Maui High Performance Computing Center
Mentor: Thomas Meyer

Project Abstract:

Vis5D is an open source program that creates a system for interactive visualization of large five dimension gridded datasets such as those produced by numerical weather models.  Three spatial dimensions, the X, Y and Z coordinates, one time dimension, and another dimension for weather variables such as wind, rain, humidity and temperature.   Vis5D is provided by Sourceforge at http://vis5d.sourceforge.net/ as an open source development program.   The datasets used for the high resolution weather models are downloaded daily from the National Center for Environmental Prediction.    Vis5d, combined with the datasets is used to create a visual simulation of the atmospheric weather conditions above and around the state of Hawaii for the purpose of assisting in telescopic operations.    By modifying the source code for Vis5D, datasets can be displayed visually in a continuous cycle through daily updates of datasets.  Through the modification of the source code, Vis5D will also be able to run in a Windows environment rather than just a Linux environment.    The result is a five dimensional model of weather data which will be able to work in a Windows environment and will be continuously updated on a daily basis.  Additional work is being completed in order to allow Vis5D to work in the Windows environment with the use of open software development tools such as Mesa3D and MinGw.  With the combination of mesa3D, a 3D graphics library program and MinGW, a command line compiler, the Vis5D source code is currently being compiled.  By the completion of this project Vis5D will be, functional in both the Linux and Windows environment.  The five dimensional weather model will be used by Maui High Performance Computing Center as part of a presentation at several conferences.  The weather model will also be used by scientists to help in overall telescopic missions to help predict weather patterns.