fvance@airgun.UUCP (Frank Vance) (07/13/89)
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. My questions are: 1. Is this image just a fractal landscape, or does the image represent a "reconstruction" of a real-world location based on data points with elevation, etc. 2. If the latter, how is the real landscape modeled? As contour lines or discrete points (or a grid)? The detailing of the mountain (in particular) seems to imply either a very high level of detail for the model or some degree of fractal "interpolating" to add texture to the landscape. 3. Assuming it is not just a fractal image, is this an application some one markets? As usual, thanks in advance. Frank Vance, Western Geophysical, Houston, TX uunet!airgun!fvance -- Frank Vance fvance@airgun.wg.waii.com Western Geophysical, Houston ...!uunet!airgun!fvance
cliff@ficc.uu.net (cliff click) (07/14/89)
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. -- Cliff Click, Software Contractor at Large Business: uunet.uu.net!ficc!cliff, cliff@ficc.uu.net, +1 713 274 5368 (w). Disclaimer: lost in the vortices of nilspace... +1 713 568 3460 (h).