Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!hao!ames!aurora!riacs!julian From: julian@riacs.edu (Julian E Gomez) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: 3-D Graphics Question Message-ID: <703@hydra.riacs.edu> Date: Tue, 1-Dec-87 18:22:19 EST Article-I.D.: hydra.703 Posted: Tue Dec 1 18:22:19 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 5-Dec-87 00:13:41 EST References: <2329@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> <34960@sun.uucp> Reply-To: julian@hydra.riacs.edu.UUCP (Julian E Gomez) Organization: RIACS, Moffett Field, CA Lines: 16 In article <34960@sun.uucp> brent%terra@Sun.COM (Brent Callaghan) writes: " On a Nova program on TV a few weeks ago I saw a computer " generated movie of a tour of the LA basin. It gave the " impression of a ride in a 1,000 mph helicopter. Again, the " terrain model was Landsat computed from a Landsat image. "L.A. The Movie" Kobrick et al, 1987. The Landsat data was combined with known elevation data to produce a 3-D model, which was then manipulated with conventional techniques. -- "Physicists are mathematicians in a hurry" B. Mandelbrot Julian "a tribble took it" Gomez julian@riacs.edu || {...decvax!}ames!riacs!julian