(01-10-2019, 04:15 PM)airbozo Wrote: One of the side projects that I never saw anything more about was a virtual screen in the cockpit of an airplane. The idea was to have an Onyx 2 (or something close) on the plane that would render graphics in real time on the cockpit glass to show a pilot what they _should_ be seeing in case there was fog or other blackout conditions. The images SGI had taken of the Bay Area were in support of this project and they also ended up at Keyhole.
I could imagine the Onyx2 might have been quite weighty and annoyed passengers as their weight allowance might have to be reduced to cater for excess in the cockpit. They could have ripped out all the texturing/gouraud hardware and still have fly-by-wire
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Yeah it is amazing what SGI spawned. As an OpenGL developer. Till this day, I still kinda owe my career to SGI.
