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- From: vorwald@oasys.dt.navy.mil (John Vorwald)
- Newsgroups: comp.graphics.animation
- Subject: FAQ from a newcomer using a PC
- Message-ID: <28471@oasys.dt.navy.mil>
- Date: 14 Dec 92 05:30:36 GMT
- Reply-To: vorwald@oasys.dt.navy.mil (John Vorwald)
- Organization: Carderock Division, NSWC, Bethesda, MD
- Lines: 28
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- Hi
-
- I'm looking for information about viewing the motion of objects on PC's. I
- have a 25 MHz 486 and ready access to 50 MHz and 66 (?) MHz 486's. (I also
- have ready access to a SGI workstation. I believe the model is something like
- IGES.) I would like to be able to display aircraft (helicopters, Harriers)
- landing and taking off from a ship. I have the geometry of the ship and
- aircraft, and programs (FORTRAN, C) that generate the time history of the
- position and orientation of the ship and aircraft.
-
- I would like to be able to view the motion of the ship and aircraft from any
- position, and have the scene rendered as perspective, hidden surface objects.
- Also, it would be desirable to have the water surface represented as something
- that looks like water (not a solid blue surface).
-
- I have written a code based on the information in the book "High Resolution
- Computer Graphics in C", but there are some small bugs with my code, and it
- doesn't seem to work fast enough (but I haven't tested it extensively).
-
- I'd like some recommendations on software and hardware that is useful in
- animation, particularly for PC's. Also, if anyone is working on viewing
- aircraft flight dynamics on a PC, please drop me a line.
-
- -Thanks
-
- P.S. Please send me E-mail at vorwald@oasys.dt.navy.mil
-
- John Vorwald
-