Super Computer Center

Today at work, we got to go see the supper computer center at the university.
its cool. they have very large computer and large screen 3 9 by 9 foot screens,
then a projector, and some 3 D glasses and life was cool . got to watch an hours presentations on what they have done.
you can look around the computer room go through the walls all called virtual reality. you can get a little dizzy if you don't watch out.
one of the programs they ran for us was a look in detail of the planet Mars, taken with lots photos then programed into the big computer, it was like a flying around zooming in and out. all around this planet that i 'm never likely to see. Lots of Mountains and volcanoes .
they also had some high mountain shots of Alaska back country.
some guy goes up there and gets dropped off just to go paint and take photos in the summer . some really lovely remote stuff. high country Alaska. valley that you could zoom in on . like flying really fast. (think of I max stuff)

Then the guys asked for volunteers for a short experiment. Hay i am a silly bugger. It sounded like fun. they wanted us to fill in a box with a wand form the virtual reality. trying to see how we used the machine, weather we walked though the image or went around it. It was trying to paint in 3 D . do you turn the box over or do you walk around it or through it. Had to do the same thing 3 times with the wands at different lengths.
No i don't have any photos of this or course.
but it definitely was fun.