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- MARKETS:
- ANIMATION
- GAMES
- VISUAL SIMULATION
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- FEATURES:
- GL
- RENDERING
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- HARDWARE:
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- OTHER_INFORMATION:
- The mechanical ant/insect was adopted from Thant Tessman's <I>insect</I> program.
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- TITLE:
- ANT!
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- AUTHOR:
- Barry Brouillette, Thant Tessman
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- DESCRIPTION:
- Ant displays several species of ants including
- a generic ant, a carpenter ant, a fire ant, and
- a mechanical ant.
- END_DESCRIPTION
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- BRIEF_INSTRUCTIONS:
- <B>F1-F4:</B> Toggle different ants.<BR>
- <B>F5:</B> Bird's eye view of scene.<BR>
- <B>Left Mouse button:</B> moves current ant's head.<BR>
- <B>Middle Mouse button:</B> controls speed.<BR>
- <B>ESC or Menu Quit:</B> exits the program.<BR>
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- DETAILED_INSTRUCTIONS:
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- <TD>
- This demo is of special interest to people interested
- in robotics, animation, and visual simulation.<BR>
- <BR>
- <B>Ant operation:</B><BR>
- Pressing the left mouse button causes the mouse
- to control the movement of the current ant's head
- Pressing the middle mouse button causes the
- mouse to control the speed (Up is faster)
- and the turn rate of the current ant. <BR>
- <BR>
- <B>Viewpoint movement operation:</B><BR>
- Left CTRL key: moves viewpoint forward, toward the current ant.<BR>
- Left SHIFT key: moves viewpoint backward.<BR>
- ARROW keys: control the angle of view. <BR>
- D key: toggles the viewpoint to the ant's perspective view. <BR>
- <BR>
- <B>Fog effects:</B><BR>
- F9 key: increase density of fog.<BR>
- F10 key: decrease density of fog. <BR>
- F11 key: lighten sky & fog color.<BR>
- F12 key: darken sky & fog color. <BR>
- <BR>
- <B>Ant Selection:</B><BR>
- F1 key: selects the mechanical ant. <BR>
- F2 key: selects the generic ant. <BR>
- F3 key: selects the Carpenter ant. <BR>
- F4 key: selects the Fire ant. <BR>
- F5 key: Toggles a bird's eye view.<BR>
- <BR>
- <B>Additional information</B><BR> on this demo is available in the
- <a target=diag href="http://localhost/cgi-bin/Demos/DEMO_man.cgi?demo=ant">
- system man page </A>for ant.<p>
- </TD>
- </TR>
- </TABLE>
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- SYSTEM_REQS:
- 24 bitplanes and Z-buffer are required.
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