“Lift Off” by Sabionski

Conference:

• SIGGRAPH 1987
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Title:

Lift Off

Length:

1:24

Director(s):

• Gunter R. Sabionski

Company / Institution / Agency:

• NASA/Johnson Space Center

Description:

This is a video of a Space Shuttle launch. The position and attitude data was taken from an actual mission, as well as the audio. The Abel Image Research software was used for rendering. There are about 60,000 polygons, most of which are in the solid rocket motor exhaust plumes. A separate model of the rocket plumes was generated for each frame by means of bandpass filtered noise using Fourier transforms to define the polygon vertices.

Hardware:

HARDWARE:
Silicon Graphics Iris 2500 Turbo

Software:

SOFTWARE DEVELOPER: Abel Image Research

Additional Contributors:

ANIMATOR:
John Rhoades

Additional Information:

FORMAT:
1″ NTSC video