Ideas for studying the interaction of natural and urban processes and

some old Greater Phoenix 2100 links

Greater Phoenix 2100 local documents

Powerpoint presentation by Jon Fink
Greater Phoenix 2100-like Projects

NSF Information Technology Preproposal--ITR/IM: Tracking the untrackable: Using information technology to chronicle the skyrocketing urban growth of Greater Phoenix, Arizona from 1900 to 2100

Proposal pages

preproposal version 1 (11/19/00)

--WEB version--formatting not great, but some useful ideas and images and links

Preproposal FINAL submitted version (11/27/00)

Preproposal complete PDF file
Preproposal project description (5 pages) MS WORD file

Software and data--came from Jana Fry and Jim Howard and John Mitchell

Here is the main OpenFlight site, and a few others related or that use/create OpenFlight data or simulations:
Open Flight
Introduction to OpenFlight APIs
Urban Simulation: An Innovative Tool for Interactive Planning and Consensus Building

SGI OpenPerformer (works with/uses OpenFlight)
SGI Performer software

OpenFlight generators
Terrex, Terrain Experts
TerraSim

Some sample OpenFlight databases:
http://www.grime.net/downloads/default.htm#Databases
http://www.grime.net/Downloads/default.htm#Audition
http://www.3dlinks.com/software_landscape.cfm

Image Society, Tempe based national organization with emphasis on 3D/Simulation and related resources and yearly national conference on Phoenix:
http://www.public.asu.edu/~image
http://www.public.asu.edu/~image/RG/2kRG.html

Networked immersive environments and interactive dance/body motion
http://www-art.cfa.cmu.edu/Penny/works/traces/Tracescode.html

Decision Theater

NY Times article on SGi and Disney design decisions
UCLA Visualization Portal--extensive hardware and software and an immersive environment
Evans and Sutherland and ESRI http://www.es-rapidsite.com/
Silicon Graphics Visualization systems
Full immersion synthetic environment (i.e., C2 or C6 at the Virtual Reality Application Center, at Iowa State University)

Information from Mechdyne Corporation

Choosing a screen configuration to suit the application

The Leading Edge, May 2000, Vol 19, No. 5 pgs 526-532, ARCO and
immersive environments, Part 1: The first two generations, Stark, Dorn
& Cole.
http://www.edge-online.org/pdf/tle1905r05250532.pdf

The Leading Edge, August 2000, Vol 19, No. 8 pgs 884-890, ARCO and
immersive environments, Part 2: Oil industry experience with immersive
environments, Stark, Dorn & Cole.
http://www.edge-online.org/pdf/tle1908r08840890.pdf