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GSFC Video Featured in Computer Animation Festival
“The Edge of History,” a 2-minute
GSFC video production, was featured in the Computer
Animation Festival for SIGGRAPH 2004, the 31st
International Conference on Computer Graphics and
Interactive Techniques. Selected for the festival’s
premier event, the Electronic Theater, the video
includes numerous Earth science visualizations
produced by groups at GSFC such as Public Affairs,
the Visualization Analysis Lab, Earth Observatory,
and ESDCD’s Scientific Visualization Studio
(SVS). This marks the first time an SVS
effort has appeared in the Electronic Theater.
“The Electronic Theater is the most prestigious
juried venue for computer graphics. It is
the Academy Awards for our field,” says SVS
Manager Horace Mitchell. “We’re
in there with excellent talent— individual
filmmakers, university computer graphics and art
graduate programs, and the best film and television
computer graphics companies.”
Sponsored by ACM SIGGRAPH (Association for Computing
Machinery/Special Interest Group in Computer Graphics),
SIGGRAPH 2004 was held in Los Angeles from August
8-12 and brought together 27,825 computer graphics
and interactive technology professionals from 6
continents. The Computer Animation Festival,
an internationally recognized event, is considered
by many to be the highlight of the conference. Pieces
are selected for their creative merit in both computer-generated
imagery and storytelling. This year, 83 projects
were selected from a record 643 entities. Of
the 83 selections, 30 were selected for the Electronic
Theater.
Appearing alongside the likes of “Shrek
2,” “The Lord of the Rings: The Return
of the King,” and “Spider-Man 2,” “The
Edge of History” illustrates how the Earth
science disciplines are crossing the threshold
of a new era. By using scientific visualizations,
the video seeks to increase the public’s
understanding of and enthusiasm about Earth science
by showing how space-based data collection plays
a principal role in cutting-edge research.
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