This scene is from the Los Angeles International Airport database, developed by Adacel Inc. and used by NASA Ames FutureFlight Central and the Los Angeles World Airports to conduct studies into runway incursions.

Due to the importance of the requirements of NASA Ames FutureFlight Central, a national ATC/ATM test facility - up to 120 aircraft movements per hour and the most realistic environment possible, the database had to be highly polygonally optimized which was achieved by using high definition textures and perspective texture mapping in Creator. The database is run on a SGI Onyx 2 Reality monster configured with six graphic engines and 16 processors.

Due to the high realism of the airport environment delivered by Adacel, the LAX controllers who used the simulator were able to walk in and immediately be immersed in the virtual world increasing productivity, efficiency and overall success of the exercise. More information can be found on the NASA Ames website: http://ffc.arc.nasa.gov

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Team:
Michael Kurban, Satchi Shankhatheertha, Luc Leblanc and Bedros Nalpatian