A continuous low-speed wind blows over Egypt’s Great Spinx, constantly eroding the statue with the effects of humidity, dust, and smog. To investigate the formation of the wind, researchers at IBM and Bibliotheca Alexandrina simulated the effects using a classic Navier-Stokes equation and visualized the results in the VISTA CAVE.
Virtual Immersive Science and Technology Applications (VISTA) is a project established by the International School of Information Science (ISIS) at Bibliotheca Alexandrina in order to provide an interactive virtual reality environment. The environment allows researchers to transform numerical and 2-D data sets into 3-D simulations and to step into them. The VISTA team has implemented visualization of the researchers’ wind simulation results on a CAVE system using Avizo Wind software’s advanced visualization and analysis tools to provide new insights and better understanding of the data.
via Invisible Winds at Egypt’s Great Sphinx Revealed.
Update 11/10/09: Image Replaced at request of VSG.
