Re: Military flight simulation

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Angus Dorbie (dorbie++at++sgi.com)
Mon, 16 Mar 1998 14:56:23 -0800

Chris Mitchell wrote:
>
> Thanks to Angus, and everyone else who responded.
>
> I was under the impression that performer was directly
> developed from military flight simulation technology.
> I'm writing a paper to a journal (Computers in Physics),
> and I reference Performer. I thought it
> would be nice to mention the connection between Performer
> and military flight simulation in the paper, but if the
> connection is too abstract, I'll omit it.
>

There is a definite and clear connection, just ask Paradigm, Hughes
Training, Thompson Training, Equipe Electronics, Wormald, Computer Arts
& Developments, MultiGen or Coryphaeus, to name a very few.

It's just a connection of a different nature, Performer facilitates the
cost effective engineering of these and other simulators, the simple
statement that Performer borrows from military flight simulation is as I
said reasonable but not very representative and for closer comparison it
is the visual system including the graphics pipeline which should be
considered.

Cheers,Angus.

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