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- From: CDO@IB.RL.AC.UK (C D Osland)
- Newsgroups: comp.graphics.visualization
- Subject: Re: How can I display an aircraft plot on top of a
- surface-terrain?
- Message-ID: <9301071011.AA01641@psi.rutgers.edu>
- Date: 7 Jan 93 09:48:08 GMT
- References: <lakerb@COM.BP.RCWUSR>
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- On 6 Jan 93 22:22:39 GMT <lakerb@COM.BP.RCWUSR> said:
- >In article <1993Jan5.190352.29059@ncar.ucar.edu>, fredrick@acd.ucar.edu
- >(Timothy
- > Fredrick) writes:
- >>
- >> I have an XY dataset of elevations which I can use to draw a surface-terrain
- >> map of any square of land in the US. I have another datset consisting of
- >> a series of XYZ coordinates that describe an aircraft track as it flies
- >> patters around a particular mountain in New Mexico.
- >>
- >> I wish to generate a 3D surface map and the aicraft track in the same
- >> frame to show the position of the plane in relation to various terrain
- >> features. What is the best software for doing this?
- >
- >We are running AVS on a Kubota Pacific Titan. Data is pre-processed on a
- >Macintosh Quadra and standard AVS modules do all the visualization.
-
- I needed to do the same - simulated flight around a triple tectonic
- plate junction 5 km down in the Indian Ocean - two years ago. I
- designed the flight path on an Iris 3130 using (ancient) GL and then
- hand-coded the GL algorithms for our video-making computer. Also
- put in some cubic spline code so I only had to provide keypoints on
- the flight path - that was from Numerical Recipes.
-
- This was done as the video sytem did not have any 3D code on it and
- I needed the video in a hurry! Hidden surface removal was achieved
- by drawing the picture in the 'right' order (one of four corners of the
- scene, either x or y the faster loop) and I just hacked the required
- changes into the flight path data. Quick and very nasty but the
- video was made. If I'd had an extra hour or so I am sure I could
- have found some result from the 3D -> 2D transform that would have told
- me which the furthest vertex was done it automatically, but there
- wasn't time.
-
- Have since added in the GL transformations that I didn't happen to use
- (original was lookat and viewpt, latest use was polarview) and done
- a visualization of two coincident populations - wireframe for one,
- telegraph poles for the other, using the same code.
-
- If this is of use to anyone, I can easily send it, although it is
- exceedingly 'as is' so I would prefer to send to individuals, not
- the list.
-
- Chris Osland
- Atlas Video Facility
- Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, UK
-