The NSF-funded National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has long been a source of innovation in the field of visualization. One product of NCSA-based research is Virtual Director, created by Robert Patterson and Donna Cox. This application provides an easy-to-use method to control camera action for playback or animation reading.

Photo by: Bill Wiegand/University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign