Magic Earth opens doors to future with new visualization centerHouston 17 October 2000 Magic Earth sees "no dry holes" in its future, or the future of its customers. The young, innovative company has unveiled its newest and largest, state-of-the-art visualization facility, the Erik D. Geisler Visualization Center.
Located in Houston's new high-tech corridor, Magic Earth plans to use the new
facility to further its mission to eliminate dry wells in oil and gas
exploration, just as it is eliminating maps and cross sections from the desks of
geoscientists and business managers.
Walking through the front doors of the 7000 square feet facility, visitors are
met with the techno-color brilliance of the purple and red walls. Glass panels
offer a view of the SGI graphics supercomputers -- the central nervous system of
Magic Earth's revolutionary facility -- designed to tackle the most demanding
visual computing challenges. The space is dominated by the metallic gray "pod", named for its dome-like structure, that houses the next generation immersive display system and collaborative work environment. Inside this room,
Magic Earth and its clients explore billions of bytes of data and interpret the
3D images of complex geologic structures that are projected onto the panoramic screen.
Magic Earth has earned its reputation as a dynamic company that achieves results
for its customers. Through its distinct collaborative work environment,
multi-disciplinary teams can explore data and analyse prospects interactively.
"The visualization center, with its fully immersive environment, was built to
accommodate the new economy which is all about quality decisions at lightning
speed", said Yin Cheung, Executive Vice President and Director of Technology.
"Magic Earth and its software, GeoProbe, is the fastest in the world. When
clients enlist the support of our geophysical interpretation team for a project,
they gain the advantage of a fast yet thorough analysis by experts in
exploration and production workflows."
The center is named in honour of the late Erik D. Geisler (1959-1998), one of the
original developers of Magic Earth software. Geisler's passion and ingenuity in
computer graphics helped create the most powerful volume visualization software
in the oil and gas industry.
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