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From: alves@castor.usc.edu (William Alves)
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Subject: Re: Terrain Rendering (Re: How did Alliant do this image)
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Date: 14 Jul 89 23:38:44 GMT
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> [Frank Vance writes]
>(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 haven't seen the image you mention, but on the Alliant in the USC Computer
Animation Lab I saw a 3-d image of Yosemite Valley. It was generated by
texture mapping a Land-Sat image of the region on top of a contour model.
Pretty darned impressive.