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Supercomputer Pictures Solve the Once Insoluble – New York Times

1988-10-30

The tools that make it possible are powerful supercomputers. Using them, scientists can convert numbers into remarkable images that appear as two-or three-dimensional color pictures or movies on computer screens.

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By John Markoff – October 30, 1988

The recent wave of developments in supercomputer graphics has enabled scientists to explore previously uncharted areas of knowledge: from the formation of tornadoes to the behavior of transistors to the workings of a single neuron in a cricket’s brain.

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