Image of the Week - January 14, 2003
Glacial Migration Across the Northern Hemisphere
Kingsley Allan, associate professor with the Illinois State Water Survey, created an animation of glacial extents from an idea expressed in an earlier animation created in the 1950's for the Illinois State Museum. This modern updating of the animation displays new information about the progress of the last period of glaciation, and covers the entire northern hemisphere instead of solely North America.
The animation was created as a two step process in Maya. First, a growing shape representing the glacier was placed upon the background of a world map. Second, the rendered images were then wrapped around a sphere to create a three-dimensional representation of the Earth.
Maya, and the software and equipment used to produce the animation, are available in the VMIL.
Image Courtesy:
- Kingsley M. Allan - Illinois State Water Survey
Contact: k-allan@uiuc.edu
Copyright © Imaging Technology Group; Beckman Institute; and the University of Illinois. All rights reserved. The Image of the Week may not be reproduced without the prior permission of the Imaging Technology Group or the individual image authors.
Uploaded Wed Jan 15 14:51:47 2003 by Daniel E. Weber
Updated Tue Jan 26 22:49:33 2010 by Daniel E. Weber