P3D Re: 3D at Cray

[Bob Clark <rcc@xxxxxxxx>]

Brenda Nowlan wrote:
> 
> 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
> 
Our headquarters are in a suburb of Minneapolis/St.Paul,
Minnesota and I'm sure I could manage to get a few people
in for some demonstrations.

I'll have to look around for or come up with some good 3D
animations that would scale well onto big computers--it
would be great to improve the quality of what I saw and
show off some top-notch 3D graphics.
-- 
Bob Clark


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