CHARGE Image Generator: Theory of Operation and Author Language Support.
Abstract
This report documents the image generator function and author language software support for the CHARGE Interactive Graphics System. Designed initially for use in instructional systems, the CHARGE Interactive Graphics System can provide considerable and versatile graphic displays for many applications (including equipment design, troubleshooting and mathematics). While being cost-competive, the CHARGE system can achieve color, gray level, three-dimensional (3-D) perspectives, and rapid updating. Perspective views can be simply, rapidly, and economically generated from a (3-D) xyz-coordinate, dynamically changing, 'real world' description. This report describes from a functional viewpoint, the CHARGE system's procedure for representing a complex 3-dimensional world, forming a colored perspective view of this 3-dimensional world, and then encoding the perspective in a format for transmission to and display on a CHARGE terminal. (Author)
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- May 01, 1975
- Accession Number
- ADA012672
Entities
People
- Roger L. Gunwaldsen
Organizations
- Human Resources Research Organization