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From: julian@riacs.edu (Julian E Gomez)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: 3-D Graphics Question
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Date: Tue, 1-Dec-87 18:22:19 EST
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Posted: Tue Dec  1 18:22:19 1987
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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
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