One small step...
Graphics giant NVIDIA has scored its first PR coup since the departure of its PR director, with the revelation that video footage of the first ever moon landing, carried out by Neil Armstrong and co on the Apollo 11, has recently been enhanced using NVIDIA Tesla based systems.
NASA commissioned Lowry Digital to restore the footage taken of Neil Armstrong's famous "one small step..." moment and other iconic scenes from that first lunar landing. NVIDIA has been quick to highlight the fact that the video processing carried out by Lowry Digital was facilitated by Tesla GPUs and CUDA GPU computing technology.
"NVIDIA CUDA has enabled Lowry Digital to develop and use, in a practical and efficient manner, far more complex image processing algorithms than would otherwise be possible, providing great value for our customers." said John D Lowry, founder of Lowry Digital. "This has significantly increased both our image quality and our operational efficiency."
Here's a ‘before and after' image, showing the enhancements made, but they're better appreciated by going to the NASA site here and watching the videos.
