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A modular low-cost raster-scan colour visual system

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 July 2016

P. J. Willis
P. J. Willis*
Affiliation:
School of Mathematics, University of Bath
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The author and colleagues at the University of Sussex have been investigating technical problems related to the production of moving colour pictures representing real scenes in real-time. The object is to produce a visual system suitable for vehicle simulation. Flight simulation is generally the most difficult to achieve because of the need for freedom of movement and orientation in three-dimensional space coupled with a rapidly changing scene.

Such a system must therefore show smooth motion and reasonable realism. These factors imply a picture update rate of around 25 frames per second, the use of a wide range of colours and textures, a large terrain model, a picture generator capable of representing surfaces and a good mathematical aircraft performance model.

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SYMPOSIUM ON “Is Flight simulation of academic interest?”
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The Aeronautical Journal , Volume 84 , Issue 835 , August 1980 , pp. 230 - 232
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Copyright © Royal Aeronautical Society 1980 

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