Dan Ancona
da@vizbang.com
805.455.3003
 
 

	Owings Mills Landscape Visualization Fall 1994 - Spring 1995 IATH PolyTRIM , AutoCAD, Microstation A large scale landscape visualization of an area near Owings Mills, Maryland.
	Rossetti's Studio Summer 1995 IATH hand-coded VRML and Form-Z VRML1.0, created by a CGI script. The model was based on woodcarvings of D.G. Rossetti's studio.
	Invisible City Spring 1996 undergraduate thesis project perl generated VRML Site space visualizations, from spider-generated lists of pages (cubes), and acyclic and cyclic links (white and gray lines, respectively, in the third image).
	Historical Urban Visualization Prototype Summer 1996 IATH Cosmo Worlds The idea was to associate data (household income, political affiliation) with the various houses.  This was a modeled prototype and wasn't generated from actual data.
	Valley of the Shadow CD-ROM Cover Background 1997 IATH / W.W. Norton USGS data rendered and shaded in Alias/Wavefront The image I was responsible for is behind on the text on the image shown, and it appears on the cover of the CD-ROM package and booklet.
	Dante's Inferno SGML Visualization Spring 1997 IATH perl generated VRML from SGML The lines in this image represent the 34 cantos of Dante's Inferno, and the points indicate individual lines of the poem. The triangular markers represent occurences of tags that were selectable via an HTML form. The resulting VRML world could then be navigated via a VCR widget.
	Representational Website Interface Spring 1997 IATH Cosmo Worlds A mix of representational (mountains, islands and a flying carpet) and abstract (data about a website) information.  The flying carpet (not shown) served as a guided tour through the space.
	AEP Presentation World Summer 1997 IATH Cosmo Worlds An attempt at using a 3D space for a presentation, unfortunately lost in a disk crash.  Features included text panes and a basic linking structure that obviated the need for free navigation.
	WorldChart Presentation Space Summer 1998 Intervista / Intel Celeron launch WorldChart / 3DXML / Worldview Another presentation space, this one showing off a data model generated by Intervista's WorldChart.
	3D Website Prototype Summer 1998 Intervista 3DXML, rendered in Worldview
	XML Conference Notes in 3D Fall 1998 Intervista/Platinum 3DXML, rendered in WorldView
	Vizbang Presentation / Demo Winter 2001 Vizbang Software IAML rendered in Spark IAML, Information Architecture Markup Language, is the syntax I created for easily designing spaces like this one (and the previous three, when I was calling it 3DXML).  In this case it's being rendered by Spark, the Direct3D based client that I wrote.
	AVS Interview Homework Winter 2001 AVS (interview) modified OpenViz/Java example program A Java based example OpenViz program that I modified to display annotations as part of a long-distance interview with AVS.
	Sproing, a knowledge database client 2002 Alexandria Digital Earth Prototype C++/XML/OpenGL Sproing is a prototype C++/OpenGL application that reads in a custom XML syntax that describes knowledge spaces. Sproing includes a force-springs algorithm for automatic arrangement of the nodes.
	VTP UCSB model 2003 Alexandria Digital Earth Prototype Virtual Terrain Project - GIS + terrain data A real-time interactive 3D model of campus. Not shown were modifications that included labels and footprint geometry generated from Alexandria project gazetteer data.
	St.Elmo client Summer 2004 Mark Meadows C++/OpenGL St. Elmo is a C++/OpenGL based character animation client, under development for an art piece to be installed at a show in August of 2004.