Thomas (Tom) A. Volotta

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Most Recent Affiliation(s):

Volotta Interactive Video

Bio:

SIGGRAPH1995

Tom Volotta is the founder of Volotta Interactive Video, a multimedia design, production, and programming firm in the San Francisco Bay area. He is a pioneer in the field and has developed a number of educational and entertainment products. Among the SIGGRAPH community he may be best known for his work with Rob Wolff of Apple Computer in developing the Mars Navigator project, a pioneering work that allows a user to control a surface fly-by of Mars and interrupt the fly-by to explore a number of aspects of the planet’s topography, geology, and other features.

Experience(s):

Type: [E-Tech ]
Mars Navigator
Organizer(s): [Volotta ]
[SIGGRAPH 1991]

Learning Presentation(s):

Type: [Courses ]
Electronic Publishing an CD-ROM Organizer(s): [Cunningham]
Presenter(s): [Cunningham ] [Langer ] [Rosebush ] [Volotta ]
Entry No.: [13 ]
[SIGGRAPH 1995]

Type: [Educator’s Forum ]
Mars Navigator: An Interactive, Multimedia Exploration of the Red Planet Organizer(s): [Wolff]
Presenter(s): [Anderson ] [Hughes ] [Volotta ] [Stein ]
[SIGGRAPH 1991]

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