Gary saw a need for a more powerful and more flexible tool to produce television-quality 3D landscapes from real-world data, without compromising capability, quality, scale or accuracy. None of the commercial tools available could handle large, detailed regions, making them unusable for commercial and industrial terrain visualization. All included a basic method of automated placement of one or more species of vegetation based on local terrain criteria, typically using elevation and slope.
While these products all shared some common ground, and were inspired by earlier research into fractals, each brought its own unique capabilities to the art.
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Other software companies had produced similar software on the Amiga, including Virtual Reality Labs’ well known “Vista” (later, “VistaPro”) product (no relation to the Microsoft operating system of 2007) as well as Naturalgfx’s “Scenery Generator” (later, “Scenery Animator”) and a product known as “Panorama”. Seeing the potential of the advanced graphics capabilities in personal computers of the era, Gary began researching and developing software for his Amiga computer to combine 3D terrain data and landscape/vegetation information into a computer-generated synthetic 3D views complete with convincing color trees (conifer and deciduous) ground cover patterns, sky and haze. Both during and after the creation of the documentary, founder Gary Huber foresaw the need to express hypothetical scenarios involving large areas of vegetated landscape to the general public, without relying on cumbersome and technical 2D maps. Originally formed in the late 1980s as a video production company, Questar Productions’s first product was an award-winning documentary on a controversial forestry project in the mountains of Colorado.
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