Apr 182012
An animation from NASA-Langley, 1972, showing structural/vibrational responses of an early Space Shuttle configuration. While hardly “Avatar,” it’s certainly interesting to see such early CGI.
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Three years later, Case Western Reserve University produced another structural response video, this time of an SST configuration. In those three years, some pretty obvious advances were made.
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