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NVISION 08 - Terrain Visualization Highlights

"Visual Computing Week" festivities took place August 20 - 27 in San Jose - the heart of Silicon Valley. Most of the city's activities revolved around NVISION 08, a first for NVIDIA, the homegrown inventor of the GPU (Graphics Processing Unit) and a leading manufacturer of graphic chips. The 9,200+ attendee mash-up included gamers, scientists, engineers, artists, developers, academics, press, nonprofits, business, and general public.

The conference featured several simultaneous events peppered with terrain visualizations, maps, and mapping.

Monday's keynote speakers included Jeff Han from Perceptive Pixel who navigated through various satellite and data sets describing San Francisco and the Bay area. Similar to a seasoned conductor, he waved through complex and varied data types, turning pages with either hand and touching particular areas on an interface free 100-inch wide computer screen for emphasis.