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- This image shows a flight simulator, being build by the Faculty of
- Aerospace Engineering of the Delft University of Technology in the
- Netherlands. It's going to be used for basic research of stability and
- control of civil airliners, helicopters, cars and ships (in order of
- importancy). It's nice to know for us Amiga fans that the basic design and
- visualisation is done in Imagine, by the project leader and me on my
- A4000/040. I'm busy with a animation of the simulator motion with the data
- directly out off the control software of the platform. This for checking
- the boundaries and interference of the actuators (the hydraulic tubes) with
- the fuselage, which center of gravity is very low in this simulator (the
- first of its kind).
- NewTek, why won't you give us at least PAL compatibility in the Lightwave
- software, that is Custom rendersize and aspect ratio like Imagine has,
- because Lightwave is so much better for animation.
- I myself lead my own one-mans-enterprise, Fabrique Computer Graphics, and
- am working for industrial design bureau's and engeneering departments,
- doing visualisation of their new products, ranging from plastic paperclips,
- coffeecups (General Electric Plastics) via school-furniture, busstops and
- carpoolplaces to traffic junctions. The last for the Dutch Ministry of
- Transport, Public Works and Water Management, I'm doing research for the
- utilisation of low cost computer animation for checking road design done on
- high(er)-end systems.
- I have used Imagine since that it was called Silver since 1987 always on
- the highest end Amiga and am familiar with PC's, Macs, workstations and
- C64's :-) I use PhotoShop often when going to the printer via QuarkExpress
- on the Mac. It's a real pity we don't have a couple like that (maybe
- PageStream will be or else Emplant will fill the gap). Enough of it.
- The picture was taken on the Markt of Delft in Holland, I live behind the
- Townhouse. It was scanned with a HP ScanJet and composited with an Imagine
- trace in PhotoShop. With the new perspective-edit mode of Imagine2.9 you
- can place things much more accurate in real photos (vectorized first)
- than before. Once you have the right angles and lens focal length you can
- place your object anywhere by translating over the local axis and that
- interactively. Cool.
- The picture was 1990x1360 pixels (enough for rasterizing 150 lines/inch to
- separate color-plates for printing a fullcolor card) so I scaled it down to
- 704x512 en JPEG'ed it. It has square pixels, it's no NTSC picture, PAL however
- is close enough.
- For information or remarks, here are my adresses:
-
- Erwin Zwart EMail: E.Zwart@LR.TUDelft.NL
- Markt 9 or on the Imagine and LightWave mailing lists
- 2611 GP Delft phone: (31)15-158278 (or 140034 or office: 147440)
- The Netherlands (or Holland :)
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