I *was* wondering what povray on that tool could do. How about this?
Real time rendering of an Imax-sized screen of this flyby?  Or at least, such an
Imax theatre project with heightfields would come closer to needing the full
resources of the ASCI tool than a version based on isosurfaces.

Bob Hughes wrote:

> "Greg M. Johnson" <gre### [at] my-dejanewscom> wrote in message
> news:398186D9.FA868D39@my-dejanews.com...
> |
> | The ASCII White machine was assembled in the building where I work.  If
> you did
> | this animation with heightfields, I assume you'd need 2 or 3 of them,
> right?
>
> You meant to say ASCI I'm guessing:
> http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,37285,00.html
> In all fairness I'd have to say it would probably only take 1/1000000000 of
> that machine complex to do the same animation using a HF.  That's one
> powerful machine there.   Wouldn't you just know it, they're putting it at a
> nuclear lab for the purposes of weapon simulations (I think) instead of
> running POV-Ray on it.
>
> Bob

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