“Capitol Zoom” by NASA Scientific Visualization Studio

Conference:

• SIGGRAPH 2001
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SIGGRAPH Video Review:

Issue 140: SIGGRAPH 2001 Animation Theater Program Part 2

Track:

18

Title:

Capitol Zoom

Length:

1:45

Director(s):

• Gregory W. Shirah

Company / Institution / Agency:

• NASA Scientific Visualization Studio

Description:

“Capitol Zoom” is a seamless, cloudless, zoom from a global view to the nation’s capitol. It is composed entirely of real earth­observing satellite data: IKONOS one-meter data, Landsat? 15/30-meter data, Terra/MODIS 250-meter data, and Terra/ MODIS eight-kilometer data. The visualization first zooms in seamlessly, then zooms out showing where the dataset layers reside. This vizualization was created using Maya for motion control, Render Man for rendering, IDL for pre-processing of the data, Imagine for image registration, and Photoshop for color matching.

Software:

Maya, Render Man, IDL, Imagine, Photoshop

Additional Contributors:

Producer: NASA/GSFC – SCIENTIFIC VISUALIZATION STUDIO

Contributors: GREGORY W. SHIRAH, HORACE G. MITCHELL, MARTE NEWCOMBE, MICHAEL MANGOS, JAMES W. WILLIAMS, ALEX KEKESI, STUART SNODGRASS