Visualize the universe: Interactive exploration of cosmological dark matter simulation data

We propose a unified visualization tool for cosmological data resulting from dark matter simulations. Our system comprises both established and novel visualization approaches for the dark matter tracer particles and halo structures to allow interactive exploration of the data in 3D and 2D as well as tracking the evolution of the data over time using multiple views. Due to our scalable volume rendering approach, properties of the particle data such as the distribution of dark matter can be visualized at interactive frame rates even for large-scale data after a one-time pre-processing conversion step.