The Center of Excellence for Interactive Ray-Tracing and Photo Realistic Visualization is dedicated to the development of tools for interactively visualizing large-scale datasets on the fly with advanced lighting and material models that help users understand the subtle detail in high-fidelity datasets. The Center of Excellence Program (COEP) is funded by the state of Utah to accelerate the commercialization of promising technologies developed at the state's Universities.
This promo for The Center of Excellence features data from The Digital Michelangelo Project that is being ray-traced in real time using The Real-Time Ray-Tracer (pre-cursor to Manta) that is developed at The SCI Institute. The original sculpture was scanned by Marc Levoy's team from Stanford University using laser rangefinder technology, together with algorithms developed at Stanford for combining multiple range and color images, allowing them to reliably and accurately digitize the external shape and surface characteristics of the sculpture. |