Foreword

Written By Donna Cox

Hubble 3D is an IMAX film. Artists and technologists at the NCSA's Advanced Visualization Lab and the Space Telescope Sciences Institute collaborated to create advanced techniques to produce data-driven virtual tours. "Hubble 3D" (c) 2010 Warner Bros. Courtesy of Warner Bros. and IMAX Corporation

Orion Nebula - the making of

The making of the virtual flight from earth to the Orion Nebula using Virtual Director.

Previsualization of Stereo for Milky Way journey

To create the voyage from the Milky Way to the Virgo Cluster of galaxies, AVL uses Virtual Director to create virtual camera flight paths and manage the complex spatial scales for rendering stereo between datasets.