From Space to In Your Face - 16M

From Space to In Your Face - 16M
80M of textures paged in on the fly... The demo starts in space looking at the earth. Zooming into Europe and later Switzerland reveals the Matterhorn - in 3-D. And you can zoom in even further than that!

Brief Instructions

This demo only supports the mouse.

The movement is based on a spherical coordinate system... This means that the object of interest is always the center of attention - the viewer is attached by a tether to the object of interest.

Left mouse button - hold down then up and down motion lengthens or shortens the tether.
Middle mouse button - hold down then up and down motion tilts up and down. Left and right motion spins around.
Right mouse button - hold down then up and down motion proceeds along rails to the next or previous levels.

Otherwise behavior is like perfly. Hit 'k' once or twice to use Dynamic Video Resize capabilities.

Other Information

Credits

Multiresolution texture paging

Applied Engineering, ASD - Silicon Graphics, Inc.

Matterhorn Level (25m - 1m)Matterhorn Level (25m - 1m)

Computer Arts & Development - Madrid, Spain

Geospecific data sources

Remote Sensing Laboratories (RSL) - University of Zurich
Swiss Federal Office of Topography
Worldsat International Inc. & Jim Knighton

Nintendo64 exterior modeling

ViewPoint Datalabs

Nintendo64 circuit board modeling

Hiroyuki Sato - NHK

System Requirements

Reality graphics with 16M texture memory and 256M memory.

HighEnd_Demos@sgi.com