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Geological analysis of 3D Digital Outcrop Models (DOMs) for reconstruction of ancient habitable environments is a key aspect of the upcoming ESA ExoMars 2022 Rosalind Franklin Rover and the NASA 2020 Rover Perseverance missions in seeking signs of past life on Mars. Geologists measure and interpret 3D DOMs, create sedimentary logs and combine them in `correlation panels' to map the extents of key geological horizons, and build a stratigraphic model to understand their position in the ancient landscape. Currently, the creation of correlation panels is completely manual and therefore time-consuming, and inflexible. With InCorr we present a visualization solution that encompasses a 3D logging tool and an interactive data-driven correlation panel that evolves with the stratigraphic analysis. For the creation of InCorr we closely cooperated with leading planetary geologists in the form of a design study. We verify our results by recreating an existing correlation analysis with InCorr and validate our correlation panel against a manually created illustration. Further, we conducted a user-study with a wider circle of geologists. Our evaluation shows that InCorr efficiently supports the domain experts in tackling their research questions and that it has the potential to significantly impact how geologists work with digital outcrop representations in general.

Lens flare is a visual phenomenon caused by interreflection of light within a lens system. This effect is often seen as an undesired artifact, but it also gives rendered images a realistic appearance and is even used for artistic purposes. In the area of computer graphics, several simulation-based approaches have been presented to render lens flare for a given spherical lens system. For physically reliable results, these approaches require an accurate description of that system, which differs from camera to camera. Also, for the lens flares appearance, crucial parameters—especially the anti-reflection coatings—can often only be approximated. In this paper we present a novel workflow for generating physically plausible renderings of lens flare phenomena by analyzing the lens flares captured with a camera. Our method allows predicting the occurrence of lens flares for a given light setup. This is an often requested feature in light planning applications in order to efficiently avoid lens flare-prone light positioning. A model with a tight parameter set and a GPU-based rendering method allows our approach to be used in real-time applications.

Sulfoxonium ylides 3a-h were synthesized by silylation of the cyclic methylene disulfones 1,3-dithietane 1,1,3,3-tetraoxide (1) and 1,3,5-trithiane 1,1,3,3,5,5-hexaoxide (4) with the silylating agents silyl nonafluorobutanesulfonates. The structure and constitution of the ylides were established with 1H-NMR, 13C-NMR, 29Si-NMR spectroscopy, mass spectrometry, and elemental analysis. On the route to the sulfoxonium ylides a new class of unsaturated disulfenes 7, 8, 12, 13 of 1 and 4 were synthesized via Knoevenagel and substitution reactions. Dianions of newly formed alkyl disulfenes 16a, b, e, f, and the trianion 17 were prepared and characterized by 1H-NMR and 13C-NMR spectroscopy and compared with the results of the ylides.

1,3-Dithietane-1,1,3,3-tetraoxide (“disulphene”) is a versatile reagent for the synthesis of sulphenes and sulphines1. Upon investigating silylation reactions of disulphene (1) an unexpected O-silylation yielding a sulphoxoniumylide was found2. The synthesis of more stable sulphoxoniumylides will be reported3.