Steve Baker (sbaker++at++link.com)
Wed, 29 Jul 1998 08:32:38 -0500 (CDT)
> David Rapidel wrote:
> > Does soembody know if it's possible to simulate (with Performer) scan
> > effects like radars scan for example ?
> >
>
> Several companies have done this. I lead a team that developed a RADAR
> sim targeted to the SGI platform, but there was no need to use Performer
> (since a RADAR scan is similar to a form of ray tracing, our application
> was more CPU-intensive then graphics intensive, and we simply used
> OpenGL to generate the sweeps...during testing, we even ran the display
> on a Linux box to demonstrate its portability :-). Other companies,
> notably Camber and SAIC (there may be others) offer RADAR products that
> use Performer or OpenGL targeted at the SGI platform.
Right - Dave is talking about traditional top-down Radar views (DRLMS
in his case), other techniques that benefit more from Performer apply to
things like SAR and TFR.
Steve Baker (817)619-2657 (Vox/Vox-Mail)
Raytheon Systems Inc. (817)619-4028 (Fax)
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