Interactive Visualization of Terascale Data in the Browser: Fact or Fiction?

No installation required: how WebAssembly is changing scientific computing

“…Will Usher, a scientific-visualization engineer at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, and his team used WebGPU and WebAssembly to implement a data-visualization algorithm called 'Marching Cubes', with which they manipulated terabyte-scale data sets in a browser 2 . Computer scientist Johanna Beyer's team at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, created a visualization tool for gigabyte-sized wholeslide microscopy data, using an algorithm called 'Residency Octree' 3 .…”