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From: cliff@ficc.uu.net (cliff click)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Re: How did Alliant do this image?
Summary: Alliante Mountain
Keywords: Alliant ; How did they do it?
Message-ID: <5001@ficc.uu.net>
Date: 14 Jul 89 12:33:04 GMT
References: <26@airgun.UUCP>
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Organization: Ferranti International Controls
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In article <26@airgun.UUCP>, fvance@airgun.UUCP (Frank Vance) writes:
> In their advertisement in the July 89 issue of Supercomputing Review
> (pages 6-7) Alliant features 4 images showing "typical" applications.
> The one on the right, captioned "Mission Planning" shows an image of a
> landscape, with valley, river, and mountains.  It has something of a fractal
> character to it.

I saw a demo of an Alliant zooming around a mountain & valley & city.  It was
the San Fransisco bay area, if I remember correctly.  The model was stored as
voxels (3-d pixels) and they were doing some real-time ray tracing stuff.

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