Monthly Archives: November 2022

George Rickey Kinetic Sculpture

Posted on November 15, 2022 by tompayne

When I was at university (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute), there was a controversial sculpture on campus. Some people hated it, but many engineers found it amazing to watch the huge aluminum slabs sway gently in the breeze. The sculpture disappeared from … Continue reading →

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The Caves of Lascaux

Posted on November 14, 2022 by tompayne

The Caves of Lascaux…or simply LASCAUX…was not so much a WTK demo as it was a prominent art exhibit developed, in part, with the Sense8 libraries. It was the brain child of Benjamin Britton, then an associate professor at the … Continue reading →

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Virtual I-O i-glasses

Posted on November 13, 2022 by tompayne

Huge marketing events were “everyday” during the 1990’s. One night in San Francisco, I was invited to a Casino Night on a party boat in San Francisco Bay. Sure to be a good time, I joined the fun with a … Continue reading →

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Rockwell F-5 SIF Engineering Team

Posted on November 13, 2022 by tompayne

We had a great team supporting the F-5 Avionics upgrade program at Rockwell and we became great friends. Again, orchestrating this picture seemed sort of corny at the time, but I am glad to have it now. I will try … Continue reading →

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F-5 Flight Simulator

Posted on November 12, 2022 by tompayne

I got my introduction to 3D graphics when I joined Rockwell International’s F-5 Upgrade program in 1991. I was part of the IR&D (internal research and development) team building a Systems Integration Facility (SIF) for prototyping F-5 (and, later, F-4) … Continue reading →

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WTK Mars Rover Demo

Posted on November 10, 2022 by tompayne

This is probably the most iconic of the Sense8/WorldToolKit demos. I think it was developed originally by Dave Hinkle and was often the first application compiled and tested after each update to WTK. As a result, it was ported to … Continue reading →

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WTK CA-Unicenter Demo

Posted on November 10, 2022 by tompayne

One of Sense8’s classic “business” demos was a proposed 3D user interface on top of Computer Associates’ flagship Unicenter product. Branded as CA-Unicenter TNG, the demo would allow you to “fly” from a spinning map of the globe, down to … Continue reading →

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WTK Sailing Demo

Posted on November 10, 2022 by tompayne

“Sailing” is another classic WorldToolKit demo. While is seems like a simple demo, it has quite a bit of calculating going on behind the scenes. From the demo’s readme: The goal of this demo is to sail around the bay … Continue reading →

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Absent from VR history

Posted on November 10, 2022 by tompayne

When I picked up the Sunday NY Times in my driveway on November 7, 2015, I believed the world was about to change. That morning, the Times, in partnership with Google, distributed 1.3 million Cardboard VR headsets. A generation of … Continue reading →

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