This demo, which they called ‘From Space to Your Face’, was a sensation wherever they showed it. ![]() The Silicon Graphics team’s ‘killer demo’ began in outer space and zoomed in to the Earth, coming to rest on their logo inside a Nintendo 64-placed on top of the Matterhorn in the Alps. In order to advertise the lifelike textures of one of their products, a graphics processor running software called Clip Mapping, they decided to base a demonstration on the Powers of Ten flip-book. John Hanke, Mark Aubin and Brian McClendon worked for Silicon Graphics Inc, a Californian company specialising in 3D computer graphics. Their aim was to knit together digital images at different scales so seamlessly that you could zoom from one magnification to another. In the 1990s, a group of software engineers began to think about how to create digital maps from satellite photographs.
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