Re: Simulated Fly-By's

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From: dcasteel
Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2000 00:00

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If you want to spend the time to learn you can do all this with
freeware and public domain geographic data

On Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:07:00 +0100, "H.M. Hubey"
<hubeyh@mail.montclair.edu> wrote:

>
>Years ago I saw a video of a simulated fly-by of the California coast.
>
>The data from satellites was used to construct the video of what
>someone in a space shuttle or airplane would see if the thing
>flew around the coast. The number-crunching was done on a super
>computer, and then the data was transferred to video-tape.
>
>Is the pgm available for others to use? IOW, was it done with
>NSF money and thus PD?
>
>Do such pgms exist for other computers? 
>
>Thank you.
>
>-- 
>Regards, Mark
>/\/\/\/\/\....I love humanity. It's people I can't stand...../\/\/\/\/\
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From: dcasteel@usit.net
Subject: Re: Simulated Fly-By's
Date: 2000/04/17
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