“Tempest” by Litwinowicz – ACM SIGGRAPH HISTORY ARCHIVES

“Tempest” by Litwinowicz




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Title:


    Tempest

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Length:


    1:10

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Description:


    Seeing eye-to-eye with a tropical storm can put you under a lot of atmospheric pressure. After a whirlwind of activity, relax with a cup of typhoon tea.

Hardware:


    HARDWARE: MAC llx, Silicon Graphics Personal Iris

Software:


    SOFTWARE DEVELOPER: In house renderer, scene phase and interpolator


Additional Contributors:


    Produced by: Apple ATG Graphics Software Group

    Credits: Peter Litwinowicz, Lance Williams, Dick Graddock, G.W. Hannaway & Associates, Mike Kass & Gavin Miller, Scott Stein, Apple Application Technologies Group.


Additional Information:


    The Tempest depicted here is Hurricane Diana. Raw satellite data acquired by NASA/Goddard was processed into a computer graphics database by G.W. Hannaway & Associates of Boulder, Colorado.

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