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Date posted: 06/11/2004 A new startup company has emerged from the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory with an on the fly renderer, capable of taking millions of data points recorded from airborne and ground-based surveying and, in real-time turning them in to standardised 3D graphics formats. Applied Imagery, the company concerned, is leaping ahead in dot boom type commercial success, due to QT Viewer, the the product concerned. APL developed the software for a defense project collecting data using airborne lidar surveys done with pulses of laser light, and using these to produce 3D maps of the ground. The problem: How to process vast amounts of data in real time? "They really needed a multimillion-dollar supercomputer to process the data from many millions of light pulses, and that wasn't an option," says APL physicist Michael Roth. "What we had to do was foment a revolution in imaging." APL software engineer Kevin Murphy said "We took what video cards were good at and then built what we needed around that," The software is capable of providing high resolution images. For example, it can provide the entire city of Washington, D.C., with data samples every foot and a half. It can then drop an avatar to any point in the rendering, and seamlessly work out their line of sight at that moment - from a personal computer. See the full Story via external site: www.jhu.edu Most recent stories in this category (Display Technology): 08/02/2017: New method improves accuracy of imaging systems |
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