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Computer punch. (Letters).


Immersive visualization See virtual reality and CAVE.  environments such as CAVES The following is a partial list of caves. Africa
Ethiopia
  • Sof Omar Caves
South Africa
Main article: List of caves in South Africa
  • Blombos cave
  • Boesmansgat
  • Cango Caves
  • Sterkfontein
  • Sudwala Caves
 can't function without graphics supercomputers ("Deep Vision," SN: 6/1/02, p. 344). Your article omitted the unifying factor behind all of its examples: the supercomputing power that made these environments possible. SGI (SGI, Sunnyvale, CA, www.sgi.com) A manufacturer of workstations and servers, founded in 1982 by Jim Clark. The company was founded as Silicon Graphics, Inc., but changed to its acronym in 1999.  is the company that provides the computer power behind the installations cited in the article.

CHODI MCREYNOLDS, SGI, MOUNTAIN VIEW, CALIF.
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Author:McReynolds, Chodi
Publication:Science News
Article Type:Letter to the Editor
Date:Jul 27, 2002
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