Short: Flight Simulator on Delft Markt Square Type : pix/trace Uploader: ezwart dutlsb3 lr tudelft nl Architecture: generic Image: Simulator.JPG Size : scaled to 704x512 (square pixels) from 1990x1360 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). 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 :)