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Foil 25 New York State -- The Interactive Journey

From Webserver General Description -- January 1995. by Geoffrey C. Fox * See also color IMAGE
Interactive three dimensional multimedia tour of New York State
Required InfoVision technologies
  • Parallel Database technologies
  • MPP server for USGS / Landsat Map and Multimedia database and parallel rendering
  • Scalable Parallel Terrain Renderer choosing resolution so can deliver in realtime given network banwidth and host compute capability
    • Similar to JPL tours of Mars and California but less realistic and faster renderer
    • Porting JPL software to SP2 using MPI for high-end use
  • Delivery over ATM(Gigabit) network
Note such a GIS (Geographic Information System) is natural multimedia interface to any spatially labelled Information -- It is Spatial Mosaic
  • Obvious Utility in Real Estate, Travel and Yellow Page Applications

Northeast Parallel Architectures Center, Syracuse University, npac@npac.syr.edu

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