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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 :)