This is quite an achievement, posted by Shenlei Winkler on her popular Fashion Research Institute blog (read the full post HERE.) The terrain data was provided by the famed Dr. Brian Quinn, known throughout the metaverse for his work with LiDAR data translation into Second Life and OpenSim (see this previous post about Brian’s work with LiDAR generated sculpties).
Here is a machinima Shenlei just posted, showing the Yellowstone National Park terrain loaded into the ScienceSim grid:
“Now, in 2010, we’d like to showcase the first of what we expect to be many developments in 2010. For the past month, the team in ScienceSim has been head’s down building infrastructure designed to support our future work with OpenSim. We are developing content standards that govern how collections of content can be managed, curated and tracked. We have been developing tools that are useful for the audience of educators and enterprise using the ScienceSim grid. We have been defining policy and procedure (and documenting it as we go) to define best practices in settling new OpenSim-based grids for enterprise and education. We are creating, building, enhancing, and evolving all of this on top of the OpenSim code base, which is now robust enough to support the work we’re doing.
We are now standing on the threshold of something amazing, which has the same feeling of being an early OpenSim Ruth on a Dot in 2007.”
