RIVA Animations

• All California Simulation by Virtual California

  This movie shows the newest results from Virtual California ran by Dr. John Rundle of U.C. Davis. This simulation models over 60 major faults in the entire California for 1000 years. The faults used by the simulation are drawn as black lines on top of the LandSAT image. The animation shows 5 years moving windows of horizontal surface deformation. The color fringe simulates InSAR C band, i.e., 5.6 cm per fringe. (60 Mbytes)

• Postseismic surface deformation after Landers Earthquake

  This movie shows 500 years of simulation results generated by GeoFEST, a 3D finite element software modeling solid stress and strain. The data were provided by Dr. Charles Norton of JPL. The simulation data were superimposed on top of LandSAT image of Southern California with Landers faults drawn as a yellow lines. The movie starts with a flying-around of the Landers faults, followed by the deformation resulted from the earthquake. After the initial deformation fades out, it animates the accumulated surface deformation in time for 500 years. Each color fringe in the movie represents 5.6cm vertical displacement, similar to the InSAR C Band fringe. (17 Mbytes)

• Postseismic surface deformation after Northridge Earthquake

  This movie shows 500 years of simulation results generated by GeoFEST, a 3D finite element software modeling solid stress and strain. The data were provided by Dr. Jay Parker of JPL. The simulation data were superimposed on top of LandSAT image of Southern California with Northridge fault drawn as a yellow rectangle. The movie starts with a flying-around of the Northridge fault, followed by the deformation resulted from the earthquake. After the initial deformation fades out, it animates the accumulated surface deformation in time for 500 years. Each color fringe in the movie represents 5.6cm vertical displacement, similar to the InSAR C Band fringe. This movie is cleared for web release by JPL Document Review Services with CL#03-1058. (55 Mbytes)

• 1000 Years Surface Deformation Simulated by Virtual California

  This movie shows 1000 years of simulation results generated by Virtual California, a Monte Carlo code that generates simulated earthquakes on arbitrary fault surface mesh. The data were provided by Professor John Rundle, University of California, Davis. The fault data base used by the simulation are drawn as red lines on top of the LandSAT image. The animation shows 5 years moving windows of horizontal surface deformation. The color fringe simulates InSAR C band, i.e., 5.6 cm per fringe. This movie is cleared for web release by JPL Document Review Services with CL#03-1057. (58 Mbytes)

• Lewis & Clark Trail - Search For the Northwest Passage

  This 9-minute long movie, also in HDTV, is our latest production. The movie combines the fly-over of the L&C trail on 30 meter LandSat images, HDTV video clips along the Lewis and Clark trail, interactive exploration of the Lemhi pass area and a historical terrority map using Digital Light Table (DLT). The movie was shown in a Labwide presentation by Dave Curkendall in July 2001 and at the Siggraph '2001 in LA Convention Center. A DVD completed with music and narrative is in production by our director/writer, Dr. Dave Curkendall. The movie is too big to be served on this website. If you are interested in getting a DVD, please email Peggy Li.

• The Geological History of San Diego

  This 90 second movie was made using the 15-meter LANDSAT 7 dataset in 2001.  It was presented in a labwide Lecture in Von Karman entitled "It's Written in Stone -- The Geological History of San Diego" by Professor Pat Abbott of San Diego State University in July, 2001. It is available in HDTV format. The flight path was chosen by Professor Abbott. The LandSat image was mosiacked by Lucian Plesea. (Movie size: 83 Mbytes)

• X33 the Movie

  The planned virgin flight of X33 over California/Nevada desert.  X33 is a prototype of the next generation space shuttle.  The project was cancelled and we never had chance to show the movie in public.  We rendered the terrain in RIVA and the space craft in another software and composite the two at last.  It was a fun project. The movie was made by Joe Jacob and the X33 space craft was rendered by Marc Pomerantz. The original movie was made in a three screen format (3840x1280 pixels). The mpeg movie is in the size of 960x320 pixels. It may not play properly on PCs due to its unusual aspect ratio. (18 Mbytes)

• Mars -- the History as Prolog

  A three-screen (3840x1280) animation we made for the celebration of Pathfinder landing on Mars.  It was a big production involving with lots of people.  The movie was debuted in JPL's Von Karman auditorium on July 4th, 1997, the day when the Sojourner Rover landed on Mars. The movie was produced/directed by Dave Curkendall. The script was written and narrated by late JPL Chief Technologist, Terry Cole. The Mars images used in the movie include the Viking Orbitor imagery, images from Hubble Telescope, and high-resolution image of the Pathfinder landing site, Valles Marineris and Olympus Mons. The mpeg movie contains only the center screen of a portion of the original movie. (53 MByte)

• Eddy Resolving Ocean Model

  The "famous" North Atlantic Ocean surface temperature animation mapped on a globe. The movie shows the simulated ocean surface temperature shaded by the ocean surface height overlaid on top of a 1 km global earth image. The simulation data was produced by a high resolution Eddy Resolving Ocean Circulation Model using Parallel Ocean Program (POP) by Yi Chao of JPL. The animation is a five year's simulation with a snapshot at every three simulation days.

• San Diego The Movie

  A fly-over of San Diego made for 1996 IEEE Supercomputing.  It used a combination of datasets: a Southern California map, a 154 meter resolution Southern California image, a 30 meter Landsat image of San Diego, and 2.25 meter resolution data of San Diego taken by a Russion spy satellite. The movie was presented by SDSC director, Sid Keran, in his keynote speech. The mpeg movie is about 136 MB.