P3D Re: 3D at Cray

[Brenda Nowlan <bknowlan@xxxxxxxxx>]

Bob Clark writes:

Demo 4: US fly-over
    The model here was a fairly bad 3D map of the
    United States.  The cool part was that you wore
    special goggles and a special hand pointing device
    with several buttons.  The entire model would tilt
    according to your head position.  You could "fly"
    up and down and left and right by tipping the hand
    pointer accordingly.  The pointer had a zoom in and
    out button.  For example, after a little practice I
    was able to start way out in space, fly down and in
    towards Florida, level off near the ground, then fly
    up the coast to Maine.  The hand pointer also had a
    nifty menu button which put a 3D, slanting menu up on
    the screen along with what looked like a laser beam
    emmitting from the hand pointer right through the menu.

Wow Bob!  Where is Cray located and would they give any of your fellow
3D buds a showing?  :^)

Brenda Nowlan


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