Our Temple of Isis is given free to public domain for any use, whatsoever.  If you do make something from it, all we ask is that you include the URL to this page.

Jeffrey Jacobson -- Programmed 2D interface using Java/VRML/HTML, credit pages, other verbage.
Nicole Jackson -- Converted and repaired the Temple of Isis model into VRML and FLT forms.
Jane Vadnal -- Background information and view descriptions.

Thanks also to:  Dr. Michael Lewis, Emilie Morse, Phil Nemec, Martin van Velson.

!!!  This part of the page is still under construction, as I ask sponsors and individuals how they want to represented.  Please if you are a sponsor and I have not contacted you yet.  goshen@cmu.edu

Virtual Pompeii was developed in 1995 at the Studio for Creative Inquiry (SFCI) at Carnegie Mellon University, under contract for Silicon Graphics and an anonymous donor organization.  It was a virtual reality (VR) rendition of the Theater Complex in the Roman City of Pompeii, as it appeared just before the eruption of Vesuvius.  (See intro page for more information.)  The project showed at the DeYoung Museum in San Francisco roughly from October 1995 through January 1996.

Personnel

Project Director: Carl Eugene Loeffler
Technical Director and Project Manager:  Jeffrey Jacobson
Research Director:   Jane Vadnal

Lead Artists:    Nicole Jackson (Isis), Veronica Polo (Theater & Street)
Art Team:    Sharona Jacobs, Madison Mount, Erin Salzer, Leon Stiel

Programming:    Nathan Dohm, Ross Knepper, Phil Nemec, Herb Stiel, Travis Schluessler, Tammo Spalink

Lead Audio:    Ray Chick
Audio:    Alicia Jane Allen
Sibger:    <The Serbian guy>

Dramatic Director:   Don Marinelli
Dramatic Scripting:    Lucas Hudak, Robert Pietri
Actors:        <Titus>, Doug Sickles

Carnegie Mellon, SFCI  Location and infrastructure for development effort, wages for follow-on work.

Silicon Graphics.  Provided the primary development machines and most development software.  Provided installation machine at the DeYoung Museum show (1995-1996)  Contact:  Patrick Steingroewer   412-320-2010

Anonymous.  The generous donor organization who provided historical expertise and wages for the team.

Liquid Image, Inc.  Provided the rugged HMD with technical support for deveolpment and museum installation.

Adaptive Optics Associates Inc. Optical motion tracking animation purposes.

Coryphaeus Software, Inc. (Now Centric Software) Site license for and technical support for Designer's Workbench.  www.centricsoftware.com

The Center for Human Modelling and Simulation at the University of Pennsylvania.  They provided JACK, an advanced human motion modelling program.  Site license and technical support.

ElectraHome U. S. A. Inc. Projection Systems.  They provided large-screen 3D projection system for installation at the DeYoung.  Electrahome, Winchester VA, 703(?)-678-1200

Hardware and Services
Ascension Technology Corporation - motion tracking
Pittsburgh Digital Recording & Editing Co.
StereoGraphics Inc. - audio tools

Software
Lightscape Technologies, Inc. - radiosity
Visual Synthesis, Inc. - animation tools
Auto.des.sys - Form-Z for CAD modeling
Adobe Systems, Inc. - Photoshop for image processing

Carnegie Mellon University Department of Music, Curtis Beeson, Rama Bindiganavale, Lowry Burgess, John Dobbins, Nathan Dohm, Danyale English, Amanda Ford, Henry S. Gnad, Dan Goldwasser, Michael Herf, Josh Larson-Mogal, Dimitrie B. Lazich, Choli Lightfoot, Mark Meister, Elizabeth Neuman, Charles Palmer, Rachel Schmedler, Todd Schneider,Ricardo Schulz, Carl Seaquist, Robert Tseng, Ann Weis.