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DESCRIPTION:Click for Latest Location Information: http://smartdata2017.dataversity.net/sessionPop.cfm?confid=110&proposalid=9498\nThe NASA JPL Computer Graphics Laboratory existed from 1977 to 1986 and was tasked with bringing the then new field of 3D computer graphics into applicable areas of NASA spaceflight  operations. The lab produced computer animations of many spacecraft planetary encounters, including Voyager and Pioneer and other deep space missions. It also provided advanced computer graphics engineering support for the Voyager and other missions, and outside projects were Carl Sagan’s Man and the Cosmos series and the Annenberg Foundation’s Mathematics! Series.\nThis talk will first present an overview of the operations at the lab and what tasks were required for NASA mission support. In a significant departure from conventional linear history presentation, the history of the lab is being prepared as a graph database, to enable dynamic, context sensitive navigation. This will allow the “reader” to navigate on an as desired basis, so direction of interest can change at will. Second, it will enable presenting the history as a virtual reality experience. The focus of the talk is development of a graph database model needed to implement these requirements.
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SUMMARY:History of the NASA JPL Computer Graphics Laboratory as a Graph Database
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