Phone: 914-924-7858 | Email: fsamsel@tacc.utexas.edu
Francesca Samsel is a Research Scientist in the Texas Advanced Computing Center at the University of Texas at Austin. She received an M.F.A. from the University of Washington and a B.F.A. from the California College of Art.
Multidisciplinary collaboration between the arts, sciences and visualization form the core of her research, specifically, identifying artistic principles and expertise with potential to assist scientists in their scientific inquiries.
Working in collaboration with computational teams at Los Alamos National Laboratory she advanced understanding of color application in scientific visualization: www.sciviscolor.org.
Working with the University of Minnesota, Interactive Visualization Laboratory she co-developed Artifact-Based Rendering, visualization software enabling the application of artist-designed encoding on large scale multivariate scientific data: www.sculpting-vis.org.
Her work at the intersection of art, science and visualization can be found here: sites.utexas.edu/artscivis.
She is a member of the Editorial Board of IEEE Computer Graphics and Application, as well as on the program committee for IEEE Vis, Visual Arts Program.
F. Samsel, L. Bartram, A. Bowen, B. Carlton and G. Abram, "What’s My Line? Exploring the Expressive Capacity of Lines in Scientific Visualization," in 2024 IEEE VIS Arts Program (VISAP), St. Pete Beach, FL, USA, 2024, pp. 91-102, doi: 10.1109/VISAP64569.2024.00012.
F. Samsel, W. A. Scott and K. Moreland, "A New Default Colormap for ParaView" in IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, vol. 44, no. 04, pp. 150-160, July-Aug. 2024, doi: 10.1109/MCG.2024.3383137.
F. Samsel, G. Abram, C. Bowman and D. Keefe, "Associative Forms for Encoding Multivariate Climate Data," 2023 IEEE VIS Arts Program (VISAP), Melbourne, Australia, 2023, pp. 60-75, doi: 10.1109/VISAP60414.2023.10735437.
F. Samsel, S. Zeller, and L. Bartram, "Affective, Hand-Sculpted Glyph Forms for Engaging and Expressive Scientific Visualization," 2022 IEEE VIS Arts Program (VISAP), Oklahoma City, OK, USA, 2022, pp. 127-136, doi: 10.1109/VISAP57411.2022.00025.
F. Samsel, G. Abram, S. Zeller and D. Keefe, "Affective Palettes for Scientific Visualization: Grounding Environmental Data in the Natural World," 2021 IEEE VIS Arts Program (VISAP), New Orleans, LA, USA, 2021, pp. 20-34, doi: 10.1109/VISAP52981.2021.00009.
G. Abram, F. Samsel, et al., "Antarctic Water Masses and Ice Shelves: Visualizing the Physics" in IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, vol. 41, no. 01, pp. 35-41, Jan.-Feb. 2021, doi: 10.1109/MCG.2020.3044228.
P. Nardini, M. Chen, F. Samsel, R. Bujack, M. Böttinger and G. Scheuermann, "The Making of Continuous Colormaps," in IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, vol. 27, no. 6, pp. 3048-3063, 1 June 2021, doi: 10.1109/TVCG.2019.2961674.
B. Herman, F. Samsel, A. Bares, S. Johnson, G. Abram and D. F. Keefe, "Printmaking, Puzzles, and Studio Closets: Using Artistic Metaphors to Reimagine the User Interface for Designing Immersive Visualizations," 2020 IEEE VIS Arts Program (VISAP), Salt Lake City, UT, USA, 2020, pp. 19-28, doi: 10.1109/VISAP51628.2020.00009.
S. Johnson et al., "Artifact-Based Rendering: Harnessing Natural and Traditional Visual Media for More Expressive and Engaging 3D Visualizations" in IEEE Transactions on Visualization & Computer Graphics, vol. 26, no. 01, pp. 492-502, Jan. 2020, doi: 10.1109/TVCG.2019.2934260.
